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VERMONT
October 21, 2017
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Published by New Market Press, Inc.
Serving Addison, Rutland & Chittenden Counties
CCV FACULTY VOTE UNION IN OCT. 12 ELECTION
DRIVER SUSPENDED:
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ODDITIES OF THE GREEN MOUNTIN STATE
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Vermont stock-car driver Jason Woodard was found to have an illegally altered tire following the Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tiger Mini Milk Bowl earlier this month. Lab testing revealed that Woodard’s tire had been illegally altered.In addition to the disqualification, Woodard has been suspended from all competition at Thunder Road until July 19, 2018. He was fined $1,500. Photo by Alan Ward
Last stand for school choice By Lou Varricchio STA FF W RITER
MIDDLEBURY | While perennial Vermont political candidate H. Brooke Paige doesn’t describe himself as a latter-day “David” in his fight against Vermont’s “Goliath” Act 46, the state’s compulsory school consolidation law, he does rather like the ending of the Old Testament story. In September, the Washington, Vt., resident filed a civil action that challenges the state’s “actors” and their Act 46.
“If I fail with this lawsuit there will be no local control of schools in Vermont,” Paige said. “This is a last stand. This is it.” Paige spent $1,250 of his own funds researching and preparing the suit and then filed the necessary documents in Orange County Superior Court. “So far, no one has dared ask how Act 46, a law that threatens, intimidates, coerces, demands and bribes the good citizens of Vermont, can be right, let alone legal. Well, that’s just what I am doing,” he said. » Last Stand Cont. on pg. 11
Thomas Huebner.
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Rutland to honor RRMC’s Tom Huebner By Lou Varricchio STA FF W RITER
ROAD WORK: A new culvert along Halpin Road in suburban Middlebury has been installed and the road is paved. A contractor was on site Oct. 12 to lay the shoulder stone for a few hours with full traffic access returning to normal a few hours later. Photo by Lou Varricchio
RUTLAND | Officials of the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce announced that Tom Huebner, president and CEO of the Rutland Regional Medical Center, has been chosen the “Business Leader of the Year 2017”. The award will be presented at the Chamber’s Annual Meeting on Oct. 19 at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland. » Huebner Cont. on pg. 2
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