Tuesday, August 7, 2018
All-day scavengers and problems with prohibited items ranging from ammunition to prescription drugs prompted the Chittenden Solid Waste District to announce it will close the ReUse zones at the county's six drop-off centers, effective September 29.
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The super PAC, named A Stronger Vermont and funded by the Republican Governors Association, has spent $216,361 supporting Scott ahead of the August 14 primary.
Republican grocer Keith Stern is running against Scott for the party’s nomination, and the RGA spending days ahead of that vote suggests the national group is concerned that Scott is vulnerable. An RGA spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
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Monday, August 6, 2018
In a press release, Hallquist indicated she was changing her campaign’s policy to draw a contrast with Scott.
“After watching Phil Scott take large sums from Monsanto and other out of state corporations, it has become clear that my leading on the issue of campaign finance is more important than ever,” Hallquist said. “I realize that I should have had my personal connections donate through their personal accounts.”
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Del Pozo said the last thing he remembers on June 16 is coasting down the gradual, 4.5-mile hill on Route 73 in Keene Valley, N.Y., when the used bike he had recently bought started shaking uncontrollably.
He crashed, fracturing three bones in his skull, four ribs, two bones in his shoulder and his collarbone, he said. He was flown by helicopter to Burlington, and spent two days in intensive care and a third day in the hospital before being released.
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Sullivan will take time off to write a book, and then will return to UVM as a full-time faculty member. The president, who earned $438,000 last year, is 69.
With fundraising efforts going better than anticipated, Sullivan decided he was ready to leave the president's office in the Waterman building, he said in a press release and a letter to his colleagues. He wrote:
When the Board of Trustees extended an offer to serve as UVM’s president in February 2012, I was asked the length of time I could envision for this presidency. I knew the University was planning a major comprehensive fundraising campaign and the Board wanted its next president to lead a successful campaign. Now with the University’s comprehensive campaign crossing over its campaign goal of $500 million, one year ahead of schedule, UVM is poised for its next era of reaching even greater academic expectations and aspirations. The time is right!The search for Sullivan's replacement will begin immediately with the goal of hiring a new president by March, Board of Trustees chair David Daigle said in a press release Monday.
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Thursday, August 2, 2018
French, 55, a longtime educator who has served at every level of the state public school system, will begin on August 13.
He began his career as a high school teacher in Canaan, Vt., and moved up to school principal and superintendent in the same district. French served as superintendent of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union from 2007 until 2016, when he became coordinator of the School Leadership graduate program at Saint Michael's College. He lives in Manchester Center.
French replaces Rebecca Holcombe, who resigned with only a few days' notice on April 1. The state Board of Education received a total of 14 applications for the position, and forwarded three finalists to the governor in late May. When asked why it took him more than two months to choose among the three, Scott cited two factors: "First, it was an important decision," he said. "And second, we had to get through the legislative session," which extended into late June.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Scott has frequently cited "6-3-1" as a measure of Vermont's economic and social stagnation. He claimed that Vermont was losing six people from the workforce every day, there were three fewer kids in public schools every day, and one baby was born every day to an opiate-addicted mother.
Since November, Scott said, roughly 4,400 people have joined Vermont's workforce, which grew from 345,000 to 349,400. That's a 1.3 percent increase. Its size was dramatically magnified in the chart shown above, which covers an eight-month period and ranges from 344,000 to 350,000.
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