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Vermont to Hold a 'Green Up Day' for Flood Debris
Vermont will hold a statewide cleanup day next week to encourage volunteers to pick up the trash and debris that was left behind by last month’s flood.
Modeled after the state’s annual Green Up Day, the new effort, dubbed Flood Recovery Clean Up Day, will take place on Saturday, August 26.
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Additional $3M in emergency assistance funding approved for Northern New York flood victims
Northern New Yorkers whose homes were damaged in last month’s flooding will soon be able to apply for more financial assistance from the state.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an additional $3 million in emergency assistance for homeowners in eight counties, including Clinton, Essex and Hamilton counties in the North Country.
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A Colony of Endangered Indiana Bats Is Thriving in a Chittenden County Forest
It was still light out when the first bats began leaving their roost.
One by one, or sometimes in pairs, they swooped from the weather-beaten pine box, just over the heads of several people who had converged in Hinesburg last Thursday to observe the flying mammals. “Oh, my gosh, they’re out! They’re out!” exclaimed Susi von Oettingen, pulling a tally counter from her jacket pocket and clicking it furiously. “Three, four, five!”
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Vermont flooding: Resources for flood victims
The following resources are available to help those affected by floodwaters.
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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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