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The Derek Trucks Band Paramount Theatre Rutland,Vermont November 6, 2009
The Derek Trucks Band concluded the second of their extended sets at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland, Vermont with "Key to the Highway" and "My Favorite things," each tune a mirror image of the other and an all but perfect distillation of the preceding near-three hours of stellar musicianship. The interweaving of raw intensity and graceful lyricism was the sextet's...
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- Vt. State Police close probe into burglaries (thetranscript.com)
- USDA investigating Vt. slaughterhouse (federaltimes.com)
- Vt. hunter charged in shooting (search.msn.com)
Vermont Transportation officials say the Lake Champlain bridge could be dropped into the Lake Champlain with explosives before a major freeze.
Transportation Agency spokesman John Zicconi says the pieces of the bridge between Addison, Vt., and Crown Point, N.Y., would then be removed from the water for disposal.
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From burlingtonfreepress.com
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Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012.
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- Trespassers warned to stay out of Vt. firing range (news.google.com)
- VT soccer team donates cleats to rival high school (search.msn.com)
Vermont farmers are breathing a sigh of relief. It appears an immigration crackdown could be over. The feds visited four farms Thursday, demanding documentation for all workers. Rumors circulated that more than 80 farms would be targeted.
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NEWPORT CENTER, Vt. -- Vermont State Police have seized $200,000 worth of marijuana believed to have been dropped from a plane into a field near the U.S.-Canadian border.
Police say they received several 911 calls about pot being dropped from a...
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From cbs6albany.com
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MONTPELIER, Vt. -- An official says construction could begin this week on a new ferry crossing between Vermont and New York that would take the place of the now-closed Lake Champlain bridge between Addison and Crown Point.
Vermont Transportation...
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This week, the Senate is expected to release its version of health care overhaul legislation. Questions remain about what a Senate bill will look like. One issue will be whether it includes government-sponsored health insurance, also known as the public option. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Republican governor Jim Douglas of Vermont, who chairs the National Governors Association. He says Vermont's own state-initiated reforms could serve as a...
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