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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 07:26 am

Windham County News

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11 hrs ago | The Brattleboro Reformer

Traveling Rabbis spread the word

Although Daniel Sanoff and Avraham Raskin stick out like a pair of sore thumbs in downtown Brattleboro with their traditional Hassidic fedoras and black jackets, the two are not sightseeing tourists.

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Related Topix: Brattleboro, VT, Burlington, VT, Religion, Judaism

Thu Jul 17, 2008

The Bennington Banner

Fighting for stronger abuse laws

Republican and Democratic state officials joined hands in a demonstration of unity Tuesday, pledging to strengthen Vermont's sex offender laws, despite some lingering differences.

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Related Topix: Bennington, VT

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Rutland Herald

Police jail suspect after melee

A 42-year-old Newfane man, still on federal probation from a 2004 incident in Newfane in which he pulled a gun on two Vermont State Police troopers Easter morning, pleaded innocent Monday to five new charges ...

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Related Topix: Townshend, VT, Newfane, VT

Sun Jul 13, 2008

The Bennington Banner

Costello:You won't be forgotten

Thomas Costello, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, visited Bennington on Friday, pledging that he would pay attention to "forgotten" areas of the state.

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Related Topix: Bennington, VT, Bennington College, Burlington Metro, Burlington, VT

Fri Jul 11, 2008

Bellows Falls Town Crier

History on display at Brooks library

It is the first known "documented use of the word Vermont," according to University of Vermont romance language and Canadian studies professor Joseph-Andre Senecal, and it is on display at the Brooks Memorial ...

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Related Topix: Townshend, VT, Brattleboro, VT

Wed Jul 09, 2008

Rutland Herald

Sand: Sex cases require urgency

If state officials are serious about reducing the number of sex offenses in Vermont, they should concentrate on getting new special investigation units up and running sooner in all counties, said Windsor County ...

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Related Topix: Windsor County, VT, Washington County, VT, Vermont, Vermont Government

Mon Jul 07, 2008

Burlington Free Press

Mother's, daugthers' drownings deemed murder-suicide

State Police have determined the drowning of a mother and her two young daughters in April in Windham County to be a double murder and suicide.

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Related Topix: Wardsboro, VT

Sun Jul 06, 2008

The Brattleboro Reformer

The long battle for independence

The American Revolution did not transpire in a stroke of a pen on July 4, 1776. The struggle for independence began years before the Second Continental Congress decided to codify the colonists' grievances with ...

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Thu Jul 03, 2008

The Brattleboro Reformer

Bellows Falls inspires, stars in, new movie

When first-time director Brad Coley was looking for a gritty, small Vermont town to act as a back drop for his film, "The Undeserved," he settled on Bellows Falls.

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Related Topix: Norwich, VT, Putney, VT, Education Etc., Bellows Falls, VT

Tue Jul 01, 2008

Bellows Falls Town Crier

BUHS, WSESU boards respond to hate incident at high school

The Brattleboro Union High School school board would like the public to know that we are all disturbed at the recent incident of hate centered racism which was recently discovered by our faculty.

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Related Topix: Brattleboro, VT

Sun Jun 29, 2008

The Brattleboro Reformer

Cancer Society honors Retreat's tobacco policy

The American Cancer Society has recognized the Brattleboro Retreat for its decision to institute a campus-wide tobacco free policy beginning Aug.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Lughnasadh, Brattleboro, VT, Smoking, Medicine, Health

Fri Jun 27, 2008

The Brattleboro Reformer

School has forum on racism

While the discovery of a racist group at Brattleboro Union High School sent shockwaves throughout the community, parents of minority students said this is nothing new in town.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Brattleboro, VT

Wed Jun 25, 2008

Rutland Herald

Possible charges weighed for cop

The Vermont State Police have completed their investigation into allegations that Capt.

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Related Topix: Westminster, VT, Vermont, Brattleboro, VT, Bellows Falls, VT

Mon Jun 23, 2008

The Brattleboro Reformer

Irving Oil buys 8 regional gas stations

An energy provider serving the Northeast has purchased four Windham County gas stations previously owned by Rice Oil Co.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Brattleboro, VT, Westminster, VT, Energy, Oil & Gas

Sat Jun 21, 2008

Rutland Herald

Guilford teen denies hate-crime charges

A Guilford teenager pleaded innocent Friday to hate-crime charges after he allegedly threatened a group of black teenagers while shouting racial epithets at them.

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Related Topix: Vernon, VT, Family, Teenagers, Brattleboro, VT

Thu Jun 19, 2008

The Brattleboro Reformer

Bird survey will measure West Nile

The only birds that tested positive last year for West Nile virus in Vermont came from Windham County, and the Department of Health is starting its program again this month of collecting and testing dead birds ...

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, West Nile Virus, Health

Tue Jun 17, 2008

The Brattleboro Reformer

Manwaring to run for re-election

Rep. Ann Manwaring, D-Wilmington, who won the Windham District-2 seat two years ago after longtime representative Bob Rusten retired, will seek re-election in the 2008 race.

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Related Topix: Whitingham, VT, Montpelier, VT, Wilmington, VT

Sun Jun 15, 2008

The Brattleboro Reformer

Radiation report to contain more data than in the past

There is no statistical difference between the health of the people who live near Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and people who live elsewhere in Windham County, Vermont or the United States, said Vermont's ...

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, Vermont, Vermont Government

Fri Jun 13, 2008

BurlingtonFreePress.com

Lake Placid Film Festival opens

To paraphrase an old maxim, you can take the girl out of Vermont but you can't take Vermont out of the girl.

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Related Topix: Melissa Leo, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Jun 11, 2008

BurlingtonFreePress.com

State clears troopers in road death

MONTPELIER - Prosecutors say no criminal charges will be filed against two Vermont State Police troopers who ran over a man who'd been lying in the roadway on Route 100 in Dover.

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Related Topix: Montpelier, VT

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