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Danforth, others targeted for boycott
Trooper recovering after Leicester incident
By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
MIDDLEBURY | Danforth Pewter, a Middlebury based company, has been targeted, along with other firms, in a planned boycott by a group of anti-carbon tax citizen groups. The groups are partnering in an effort to boycott seven Vermont companies whose CEOs are supporting a carbon tax in the Green Mountain State. The citizen groups 802VT Alliance and No Carbon TAX Group Vermont are calling for the boycott ahead of a planned rollout of a letterwriting and telephone campaign. In addition to Danforth, 802VT Alliance and No Carbon TAX Group Vermont have named the following Vermont fi rms in the boycott: Black River Produce, Rhino Foods, Ben & Jerry’s, Seventh Generation, the Alchemist, Sun Common and Burton Snowboards. “When we read about a group of Vermont CEOs supporting a carbon tax here — these are Vermont companies doing business in Vermont and depending upon Vermont people for at least part of their income — we asked, why they would cut their own throats and back a carbon tax,” John de Bruin, founder of 802VT Alliance, said.
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From News & Staff Reports THE V ERMONT EAGLE
LEICESTER | A Vermont State Police (VSP) trooper is recovering after he collapsed following a traffic stop in the Addison County town of Leicester. He was revived by multiple doses of Narcan. The incident began at about 11:25 p.m. March 15, when Acting Sgt. Brett Flansburg of the VSP New Haven Barracks stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation on Leicester-Whiting Road in the town of Leicester. While speaking
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with the driver, Flansburg observed the passenger swallow an item. The passenger, later identified as Taylor C. Woodward, 25, of Brandon, admitted the item was a baggie of cocaine. During a subsequent search of the passenger and the vehicle, Flansburg located and collected as evidence a small quantity of heroin in a baggie, an empty plastic baggie and a syringe. Woodward was taken into custody by other troopers on the scene for processing on suspicion of possessing heroin. While transporting the evidence to the VSP New Haven Barracks, Flans-
burg began to feel ill. When he arrived at the barracks, he called for help and collapsed in the parking lot. Fellow troopers found him unresponsive and rapidly administered two doses of the opiate overdose reversal drug Narcan. The sergeant received a third dose of Narcan while being rushed to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, and he began to show signs of improvement. At the hospital, Flansburg received additional medical treatment and later was released.
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New incentives to drive EVs By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
ICE FISHING SEASON ENDS: Ice angler Adam Gorton, of Weybridge, spent the morning of March 12 on frozen Lake Dunmore in Salisbury, fishing for land-locked salmon. Gorton reports the lake salmon is healthy and delicious. Here, Gorton carries a backpack basket of tip-ups used to catch the fish. A tip-up is a device used to suspend live or frozen bait through a hole drilled in the ice with an auger and detect when a fish strikes without having to be in contact with this piece of gear. Ice fishing season began on the third Saturday in January and continued through March 15. Photo by Lou Varricchio
MIDDLEBURY | Green Mountain Power (GMP) officials have kicked off a new way for Vermonters to cut carbon and help address climate change by driving electric vehicles (EVs). GMP President Mary Powell said that all GMP customers buying or leasing a new all-electric vehicle can now get a $1,500 rebate, new plug in hybrid customers can get $1,000 and customers getting pre-owned EVs can get a $750 rebate. “These are among the largest electric vehicle rebates offered to customers by any utility in the country,” according to a GMP news statement. “The GMP savings can be used in addition to dealer discounts already being offered plus up to $7,500 in federal tax credits.” EV and plug in hybrid customers buying from non-participating dealers can still get the rebates by filling out a form on GMP’s website.
Green Mountain Power is launching a new way for Vermonters to cut carbon and fight climate change by driving electric. Pictured: A Generation-1 Chevrolet Volt being charged in downtown Middlebury last summer. Photo by Lou Varricchio
Details about GMP’s EV rebates can be found online at greenmountainpower.com/ product/ev-rebate. For more on EV charging locations around Vermont, visit driveelectricvt.com/chargingstations/public-charging-map. ■
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