Snelling dissolves Green Mountain racing advisory panel
Gov. Richard Snelling disbanded the Advisory Committee on Green Mountain Racetrack after the legislature adjourned. Salvatore Santarcangelo, Philip O’Neil, and John Armstrong said the panel would submit a final report, urging stronger measures to keep harness racing viable at Green Mountain. They cited a proposed take-out increase and said the bill only treats symptoms. The spokesman cited timing and political considerations for ending the committee.
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Richard Snelling
Green Mountain Racetrack
Salvatore Santarcangelo
Philip O’neil
John Armstrong
Snelling
Vermont Racing Commission
Santarcangelo
O’neil
Green Mountain
Pownal
R. Alan Paul Lee
State's Kids Produce Their Own Magazine
Children in four Vermont elementary schools act as journalists for the Vermont Children's Magazine a quarterly publication produced entirely in schools. More than 160 schools contribute stories drawings codes poems and recipes while students edit and handle printing basics. The project grew from a Burlington area effort two years ago with Ed Osborn leading the initiative and aims to reflect youth wit guileless intelligence and strong editorial choices.
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Phil Toleikis
Burlington
North Bennington
Vermont
Vermont Children’s Magazine
Ed Osborn
See Magazine
Phosphate ban moves toward signing by Vermont governor
Governor Snelling is expected to sign a bill banning phosphates in detergents after passage in the House and Senate. The measure targets lake eutrophication from detergents, naming Lake Champlain as a concern, while opponents in the detergent industry argued over a proposed $50,000 hatchery appropriation. The bill, seen as a major 1977 environmental act, has faced years of lobbying and a brief amendment dispute.
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Montpelier
Richard A. Snelling
House
Senate
Vermont
Lake Champlain
State General Fund
Robert Graf
Rupert
Fish and Game Department
General Revenue Pot
Snelling
Sam Lloyd
D-Weston
Bennington
New York State
New York
Rabin resigns over scandal amid party leadership crisis
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin quits as head of the Labor party and withdraws from next month’s elections after a scandal over an illegal U.S. bank account. The 55 year old former general announced the move on national radio and TV, signaling a potential setback to U.S. peace efforts in the Middle East and prompting a Labor central committee meeting to decide a replacement.
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Shimon Peres
Rabin
Middle East
Haim Zadok
Peres
Labor Party
Aharon Barak
Leah Rabin
United States
Rape Law Reform in Vermont House Clears Hurdle
The Vermont House passed a rape law reform bill without debate and sent it to the Senate to resolve differences with the Senate version. The body also moved to abolish the Nursing Home Rate Setting Committee and to drop the psychiatrist requirement for the Mental Health commissioner. A $16.3 million capital budget and a fragile areas registry bill also advanced.
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Rutland
House
Senate
Nursing home expansion faces local review panel
The Bennington Convalescent Center seeks state approval to add 50 intermediate care beds on Dewey Street, prompting a public meeting April 11 at 7 p.m. in the County Courthouse. The local review committee raised questions about bed demand, capital funds, and alternatives like home health and community care services.
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State Health Department
Aaron Fuchs
Medical Care Regulation Department of Health
South Street
Bennington
Vermont
Fuchs’ Department
Roistacher
Nursing Home
Inside items and editorials span pages in brief notes
Ambassadors and energy planning linked by broader themes of power in politics. Local columns feature the Wadsworths Peter Rabbit piece and Vermont energy debate. County pages cover coffee shop wealth Madeira travelogue Ehmler Estate changes and local civic issues. General notes include a supermarket anti theft blitz and a humanities grant. Sports highlight Patswallop Wahconah track records and Knicks era end.
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Pete Horton
Vermont
Molvia Maddocks
Nixon
OTB
Isabel Gwinn
Madeira
Ehmler Estate
SVC
Patswallop Wahconah
N.Y. Knicks
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Ill
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Jackson Boulevard
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Paul Breguette
Buck Hill Road
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Abby
Lee Hohman
Woolmington
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New Vermont Children’s Magazine
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Yitzhak Rabin
U.S
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Washington
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Ambassador Young
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