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Heavy Rain, Flooding Hits Vermont — and Rivers Are Rising
Published July 10, 2023 at 1:13 p.m.
A severe storm slamming Vermont has dumped several inches of rain, flooded dozens of roads and led to water rescues. Rivers are continuing to rise, and Vermont is only beginning to feel the full brunt of the event.
The storm has the potential to drop even more rain over a longer period of time than Tropical Storm Irene, which in 2011 caused $750 million in damage.
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Can Vermont Turn Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Into High-Speed Internet for All?
Published July 5, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. | Updated July 5, 2023 at 12:01 p.m.
Last week, the Vermont Community Broadband Board announced that the state will receive $229 million in federal funding from a White House initiative to expand high-speed broadband access. That figure is some $50 million more than state officials had anticipated — good news for the effort to wire up rural Vermont.
In the lead-up to the announcement, officials worried that Vermont would get too small a piece of the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program pie. The feds doled out the money based on an internet connectivity map generated by the Federal Communications Commission, which overstated the number of Vermont households with reliable broadband connection.
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Burlington Asks to Turn State Office Building Into a Homeless Shelter
By KEVIN MCCALLUM for Seven Days
Published June 5, 2023 at 3:47 p.m.
Burlington officials are asking permission to turn a downtown state office building into a homeless shelter to help address the evictions of people from motels in Chittenden County this summer.
The proposal that Mayor Miro Weinberger outlined on Monday calls for the city to use the three-story brick building at 108 Cherry Street as an overnight shelter for 50 people, with daytime services for up to 75.
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Still Flying High: Vermont's State Flag Turns 100
By ABIGAIL SYLVOR GREENBERG for Seven Days
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Whetstone Beer Brews Pints for Vermont's State Parks
COURTNEY LAMDIN for Seven Days
Published May 17, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.
The founders of Whetstone Beer in Brattleboro have always been fond of public parks. For the brewery’s 10th anniversary last summer, the company rebranded with a motif that mimics the iconic national park travel posters that were created during the New Deal era to ramp up tourism.
It’s only fitting, then, that Whetstone’s newest project honors the natural spaces in its own backyard. The company plans to brew two limited-edition beers each year that are inspired by Vermont state parks. Dubbed Pints for Parks and launched this month, the project will funnel $1 from every draft beer or four-pack sold to Vermont Parks Forever, a nonprofit that fundraises for park improvements and provides free visitor passes to underserved communities.
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UVM graduates preparing for next steps; ceremony brings thousands to Burlington
Updated: 9:39 AM EDT May 22, 2023
On Sunday thousands gathered in Burlington to commemorate the University of Vermont’s class of 2023.
For some, it was an early start after a weekend of celebrating.
Surrounded by friends and family, hundreds grads crossed the stage in the ceremony for UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences and entered a new chapter in their lives.
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A Promising but Controversial New Depression Treatment Is Now More Accessible in Vermont
A primary care doctor at the University of Vermont Health Network will soon start treating depression with a mind-altering drug that’s shown promise in helping people who don’t respond to traditional medicine.
The medication — known as esketamine and sold by Johnson & Johnson under the brand name Spravato — is chemically similar to ketamine, a substance that’s been used in medical settings as an anesthetic, on the streets as a party drug and, more recently, as an off-label treatment for mood disorders.
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Andrew Tripp Is an All-Star Union Organizer — and a Kick-Ass Cross-Country Coach, Too
Referring to the final turn, the U-32 coach said, “It’s going to hurt very badly, but only for 15 seconds, OK?”
Normally, Tripp, who is 52, would have been running with them. But he had a cold, so he reverted to his race-day role of sideline encouragement, which he delivers in an emotional register that will stay imprinted in their amygdalae into adulthood.
“Amy, let’s go, girl! Faster!”
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