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Ice Out at Joe's Pond! Let Spring Begin
Since the early 80s, locals who live around Joe’s Pond have laid bets on when the ice will finally leave this placid pond in West Danville. This year, the ice ebbed and flowed away on April 14th at 4:02 am.
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Waitsfield Local Hits Broadway
Shaina Taub stars in her own musical, “Suffs,” a Broadway nod to the National Woman’s Party’s role in the suffrage movement. Co-produced with former Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the musical has been making the rounds on the talk show circuit, including a stint on the Kelly Clarkson Show this past week.
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160,000 Visit Vermont for the Solar Eclipse
On Wednesday at Gov. Phil Scott’s news conference, state officials released some key numbers following Monday’s eclipse and the big weekend leading up to the event.
The state said their preliminary numbers show roughly 60,000 vehicles entered Vermont during that period, and with their analytics, equated 160,000 people came here for the once-in-a-lifetime event.
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Bargain Hunters Unite! WOKO's Final Indoor Flea Market This Sunday
Get ready, treasure seekers and bargain enthusiasts! This Sunday, April 14th, marks the last WOKO Gigantic Indoor Flea Market of the season. Head over to the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction for a sprawling wonderland of hidden gems and unbelievable deals.
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Vermont Motorsports Expo This Saturday
A group of gearheads has created the Vermont Motorsports Hall of Fame to recognize local legends of racing.
The new nonprofit officially fires up its engine on Saturday, March 30, at the first-ever Vermont Motorsports Expo in Barre. It will honor people in a wide range of motorized disciplines: stock car, sports car, hill climb, motocross, snowmobile, truck and tractor pull, karting, and demolition derby. The group will also name a “racer of the year.”
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Plattsburgh 6th Graders Put The Eclipse On Display
More than 50 sixth-grade students from the Stafford Middle School in Plattsburgh created projects that shared the process, history, and safety measures for the total solar eclipse on April 8. They’ve been learning about it in Mrs. Sarah McCarty’s class for months.
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13th Seed UVM Takes on 4th Seed DUKE NCAA
The excitement is mounting as Vermont faces it’s fourth tournament in five seasons, and its first time facing Duke in the dance. No. 13 Vermont will face No. 4 Duke in the NCAA Tournament round of 64 on Friday night.
LEARN WHAT TO EXPECT COURTESY OF WPTZ HERE
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Bristol Hiker Discovers Abandoned Bear Cub
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife said they were notified by a hiker who said she was walking in the woods when she discovered a bear cub alone and crying. The hiker contacted Fish and Wildlife, who dispatched two wardens to locate the animal.
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Willsboro NY Diner Pays it Forward
WILLSBORO — As often occurs, small town businesses do what they can to assist others in their community, and Drew Reithel, proprietor of the Willsboro Diner, can be counted among them with a “Wall of Sharing”.
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Breaking Barriers: Keeseville's Devann Murphy does NYC Marathon on Crutches
On Sunday, the northern New York native will join more than 50,000 people at the starting line, competing in the 2023 New York City Marathon. But she will do so without her handcycle this time, using crutches instead.
“Why not?” she said. “It will be hard, and it will hurt. But because I can…I have so many friends that I race with that can not stand, can not walk. And that’s something that I still have the ability to do. ”
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