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The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation is getting ready to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first state forest.
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A new campaign to aid struggling dairy farmers is getting a boost from students at the University of Vermont.
Veronica Lake's death, allegedly in Vermont, is a mystery worthy of her femme fatale roles in the tough-minded movies that were so popular during and after World War II.
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America is full of family-friendly cities, but in choosing a place to raise kids, parents tend to seek out places with low unemployment , low crime rate and good educational opportunities.
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Students keep track of CATS buses
The way Mike Fogg and Nick Godin tell it, the whole thing got started at a typical bull session one night last winter in a University of Vermont dorm lounge.
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Vermont sugarmakers to gather Thursday
Vermont sugarmakers say their industry's enjoying good times in general, but there are still some worries: Insects.
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ARB to look at solar panels on Evening St. School
The Architectural Review Board will consider an application to place solar panels on Evening Street Elementary School at its Thursday meeting.
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New Dome adds to Stephen King's vast kingdom
A shy teenager with telekinetic powers goes to her high school prom, only to have a bucket of pig's blood dumped over her head.
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Time and Tools Are Ripe for On-Demand Acquisitions, Say Charleston Speakers
Models removes guesswork and can save money over ILL, especially when the process is simplified for the end user Josh Hadro -- Library Journal, 11/12/2009 Collection development librarians: predicting use is ineffective Supply chain improvements and e-access make on-demand viable Software tool collapses distinction between ILL and purchase requests ...
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Touring Exhibit Documents the Lives of Incarcerated Mothers
Want to see for yourself? " Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States ," Fireside Lounge, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington.
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AMA Urges Repeal Of Military Gay Ban
Members of the nation's largest doctor's advocacy group voted Tuesday to oppose the military's ban on open gay service, the AP reported.
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Natural history plans to chart life on earth, yet the discipline risks being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used.
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Sewer plant work reveals artifacts
A sewer plant expansion project has turned up some unlikely things in Hartford - including artifacts that could be thousands of years old.
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5 at the Flynn Center in Burlington. His dance company, MOMIX , will present a program titled " REMIX ," a retrospective showing highlights of the past 25 years of the dance company's athletic, adventurous work.
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Vermont panel rejects college merger
MONTPELIER -- A panel considering the governor's proposal to consolidate the University of Vermont with the five state colleges has recommended against merging the institutions.
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A panel considering the governor's recommendation to consolidate the University of Vermont and Vermont State Colleges is recommending against merging the two institutions.
Guard Begins Deployment to Afghanistan
Hundreds of Vermont guardsmen are on the move today. They are off to Fort Polk in Louisiana for training in advance of their mission to Afghanistan.
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Recovery funding helping statewide
The number of jobs created or saved in Vermont by a federal stimulus plan is a bit lower than previously thought, but state and federal officials said Monday the conglomeration of programs has worked.
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Goodbye Avi & Celia; hello Hey Mama
The music was going well for the roots duo Avi & Celia, but once guitarist Avi Salloway and vocalist Celia Woodsmith added a couple of musicians to their group, they started having problems with the math.
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