Vermont
Scott seeking another turn as Vermont governor
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(The Middle Sq.) – Vermont Gov. Phil Scott is looking for one other two-year time period in workplace.
The veteran Republican legislator is matched towards Democratic challenger Brenda Siegel.
Scott first took the governor’s seat in 2017, having served the earlier three phrases since 2011 as lieutenant governor. He was within the state Senate from 2001-10.
Earlier than coming into politics, Scott owned a development firm together with his cousin, and says his enterprise expertise taught him the challenges confronted by laws. Throughout his time as a senator, he earned the popularity of working throughout the aisle.
Siegel, who misplaced within the Democratic major race for governor in 2018, is operating on a platform of main by taking motion on local weather change, constructing a bottom-up economic system, and strengthening the schooling system within the state.
She mentioned she needs to create a housing plan that meets the state’s want, whereas additionally working to resolve the opioid disaster by hurt discount, therapy and restoration, and medically assisted therapy.
Siegel mentioned she needs to sort out local weather motion by investing in inexperienced jobs, remodeling the transportation system, use inexperienced infrastructure, and guarantee options attain all Vermonters.
Additionally showing on the ballots are a trio of unbiased candidates, Peter Duval, Kevin Hoyt and Bernard Peters.
The U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retirement of Democrat Patrick Leahy, who first took workplace in 1975, can also be up for grabs. U.S. Home Rep. Peter Welch is the Democrat going through Republican Gerald Malloy.
Welch, who turned member of the Home in 2007, serves on the Vitality, Commerce, Oversight and Authorities Reform and Agriculture committee, and beforehand served within the state Senate in two stints from 1981-89 and 2002-07.
Malloy, an Military veteran and West Level graduate who works as a enterprise govt, is operating on the platform of defending and supporting ideas of the U.S. Structure.
He mentioned he’ll battle to make sure authorities promotes alternatives for America and each American and does so with out growing the nationwide debt. He mentioned he won’t assist extra authorities, extra taxes, extra spending, and extra management.
Additionally showing on the poll is Inexperienced Social gathering candidate Natasha Diamondstone-Kohout, and independents Mark Coester, Stephen Duke, Daybreak Ellis, Cris Ericson, and Kerry Patrick Raheb.
For the state’s U.S. Home of Representatives seat, present Senate President Becca Balint is operating on a platform of supporting Medicare for All, stating well being care entry ought to be primarily based on want and never a job or skill to pay.
On her marketing campaign web site, in keeping with Ballotpedia, she mentioned she is dedicated to insurance policies that may curtail gun violence, advocate for gun security measures, and lead the cost on housing.
Republican Liam Madden will face Balint on the poll. He’s a Marine veteran who has labored as director of Iraq Veterans Towards the Conflict and as a local weather fellow for Echoing Inexperienced.
Additionally showing on the poll are Libertarian candidate Ericka Redic and unbiased candidates Matt Druzba, Adam Ortiz and Luke Talbot.
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Vermont
The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, July 3-9
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Marching Orders
Thursday 4
The town of Warren steps lively at its singular 4th of July Parade and Festivities. The procession of quirky floats and merry musicians is followed by hot dogs, a street dance and a unique get-to-know-your-neighbors scheme: Pay $1 for a numbered “Buddy Badge,” then find the other person in the crowd with the same number and you’ll both win a prize.
Truth to Power
Friday 5
Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh marks Independence Day with its annual Reading Frederick Douglass event. Audience members take part by reading portions of the abolitionist, orator and statesman’s famous address “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Douglass first gave the powerful speech on July 5, 1852, as the keynote at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Come Together
Saturday 6
Bondeko bring a multicultural mélange to the Next Stage Arts Bandwagon Summer Series in Putney. The musicians in the Portland, Maine-based outfit span generations and originally hail from Albania, Guinea, Paris and Austin, Texas, creating a sound that’s an unlikely — and unforgettable — collaboration.
Into the Woods
Saturday 6
Vermont Humanities marks two anniversaries — its own 50th and the 100th of Vermont State Parks — with its Words in the Woods series. In the second of five gatherings, listeners soak in the natural beauty at Kill Kare State Park in St. Albans as spoken word poet Ellen “LN” Bethea (pictured) shares her work. Stay and enjoy the day at the park afterward: Entrance fees are covered for participants.
Swan Song
Sunday 7
The Rochester Chamber Music Society salutes one of its own at the Federated Church of Rochester when pianist Cynthia Huard plays her final concert, a coda to her 30 years as the group’s artistic director. She’s joined by cellist Ani Kalayjian and violinists Adda Kridler and Mary Rowell in a bittersweet program that includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriel Fauré and native Vermonter Nico Muhly.
Fête the Farm
Wednesday 10
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont hosts a Pizza Social at Miller Farm in Vernon, part of a summerlong series highlighting historic farms and hardworking farmers around the state. Foodies enjoy wood-fired pizza and soft-serve ice cream made from Miller Farm milk before a hayride and farm tour. Catch upcoming installments of the series in Middletown Springs, Shoreham, Johnson, East Hardwick and North Thetford.
Paint the Town
Ongoing
If you missed last summer’s attendance-record-breaking exhibitions of “For the Love of Vermont: The Lyman Orton Collection,” here’s another chance. The Vermont Historical Society presents a reprise showing at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. The selection of 20th-century works by Vermont artists is a love letter to the Green Mountain State.
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Health officials warn of possible measles exposure in Upper Valley
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State health officials are investigating a possible measles exposure in the Upper Valley.
Vermont and New Hampshire health officials say there are currently no confirmed cases of the measles in either state.
But New Hampshire’s public health division is looking into a report of an international traveler contracting measles shortly after visiting the town of Hanover.
Officials say the traveler could have been potentially infectious while in various public places June 20-22, including Dartmouth College’s campus. The list of locations released by the health department is below:
- June 20-22: Dartmouth College campus, Hanover
- June 20-22: The Hanover Inn, 2 E Wheelock St., Hanover
- June 20, 3 p.m.: Hanover Scoops, 57 S Main St., Hanover
- June 20-22: Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery, 30 S Main St., Hanover (one meal, unknown date and time)
- June 22: Dartmouth Coach Bus from Hanover to Boston Logan Airport (unknown time)
For people who were in the area on those days, and who aren’t vaccinated or haven’t previously had the measles, officials recommend monitoring for symptoms.
Those include high fever, cough, runny nose, and watery eyes several days before developing a body rash.
Officials ask that people who do feel sick to call their provider before getting treatment to help prevent possible spread of the virus.
Experts say the measles is a preventable disease, and that the vaccine for it is safe and effective.
Have questions, comments or tips? Send us a message.
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Chinese woman tried to smuggle turtles into Quebec: U.S. Border Patrol
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A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Wan Yee Ng was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, about 50 kilometres southeast of Sherbrooke, according to an agent’s affidavit filed in federal court. U.S. agents had been notified by Royal Canadian Mounted Police that two other people, including a man who was believed to be her husband, had started to paddle an inflatable watercraft from the Canadian side of the lake toward the United States, according to an agent’s affidavit.
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The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit states. Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for $1,000 each, according to the affidavit.
Ng is charged with attempting to export the turtles from the U.S., in violation of the Endangered Species Act. A federal judge on Friday ordered that she remain detained. The federal public defender’s office, which is representing her, declined to comment.
Border Patrol agents first spotted Ng at the Airbnb rental in May when they noticed a vehicle with Ontario plates traveling on a Vermont road in Canaan in an area used by smugglers, they said. Lake Wallace has been used for human and narcotic smuggling, the affidavit states. The vehicle had entered the U.S. in Alburgh, Vermont, near Lake Champlain, agents said.
Ng was admitted to the United States in May on a visitor visa with an intended destination of Fort Lee, N.J., the affidavit states. Border Patrol agents learned on June 18 that she had again entered the U.S. in Buffalo in a vehicle with a Quebec plate and was expected to arrive at the same Airbnb on Lake Wallace in Vermont on June 25, the affidavit states. They then started to surveil the property.
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