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State to honor Middlebury teacher By Lou Varricchio STA FF W RITER
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MIDDLEBURY | Karen Greene, a high school English teacher at Middlebury Union High School is the 2018 Vermont Teacher of the Year Distinguished Finalist. Greene will be honored by the Vermont Agency of Education at the University of Vermont’s Outstanding Teacher Day on Oct. 12. Secretary of Education Rebecca Holcombe will speak at the celebration. The main focus of the event will be to honor the 2018 Vermont Teacher of the Year, Linda CloutierNamdar, an Essex High School English teacher. The celebration is scheduled for 3 p.m. in the Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, on the UVM campus. Sara Doncaster, music director at Lake Region Union High School was the 2018 Vermont Teacher of the Year Alternate. Greene has been an English teacher at Middlebury Union High School for 25 years. She earned a B.A. degree from Middlebury College, and a » Teacher Cont. on pg. 2
Gun owners react to bump stock issue Leahy, Sanders call for ban By Lou Varricchio STA FF W RITER
Vermont Field Sports manager Greg Boglioli: “Hunters wouldn’t use bump stocks.”
Photos by Lou Varricchio
MIDDLEBURY | Lawmakers from Vermont want to close the so-called bump stock loophole, but gun owners in the state say the effort would have little impact, other than to give government more control over guns. In the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), signed on to sponsor the end of the sale of bump stocks. Currently, the National Firearms Act allows gun owners to purchase a bump stock, and similar
devices, for semiautomatic weapons, enabling them to fire at the same rate as automatic weapons. Leahy and Sanders joined with other senators to introduce the Automatic Gun Fire Prevention Act put forward by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), on Oct. 4. According to a news release signed by the bump stock bill’s sponsors, the legislation would “ban the sale, transfer, importation, manufacture or possession of bump stocks, trigger cranks and similar accessories that accelerate a semi-automatic rifle’s rate of fire.” Hunting accessories would be exempt, as would devices used by law enforcement and the government. On the day following the Las Vegas killings, Sanders was among the fi rst to politicize the tragedy. » Gun Owners Cont. on pg. 6
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