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October 28, 2009
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Dance focus is on the safety of our youth.
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Conference focuses on underage drinking Rutland County students, police attend
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RUTLAND — The Together We Can Reduce Underage Drinking Conference was held at the Rutland Holiday Inn last week. There were over 140 attendees, students involved in SADD Chapters throughout the state, police officers, court diversion staffers, health department substance abuse prevention specialists, community anti- drug coalition members and school student assistance providers. About 35 of those attending were from Rutland County and they included Chris Greene, the Rutland City School resource officer, Deputy Bonnie Elrick, the Fair Haven Union High School resource deputy, Lt. Craig Hanson and Sgt. Jeff Stephenson of the Rutland County Sheriff ’s Department, and Senior Game Warden George Scribner of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, as local law enforcement professionals. The first part of the conference was presentations by experts in the field. They spoke about new trends in underage drinking- new products, how parties are held, new laws or interpretations of the laws, and an analysis of the problem’s frequency. One of the interesting outcomes was that a representative of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office revealed that their office recently made a ruling that law enforcement officers who find underage drinking violations
See CONFERENCE, page 10
Area to receive transportation funds Grants are taxpayer funded Gov. Jim Douglas announced last week that the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) has awarded $3.9 million in Federal Transit Administration taxpayer-funded grants over the next three years to six public transportation providers to help them either start new or expand existing bus routes. “These grants will assist public transit providers across Vermont with their efforts to increase public transportation opportunities for the people of our state,” said Governor Jim Douglas. “These funds will also help us ease traffic congestion along some of our heaviest traveled routes and improve air quality.” Awards were made based on the provider ’s ability to mitigate congestion and its associated air quality impacts as well as their ability to show the viability and sustainability of the new or expanded route. “This money will help fund new or expanded public transit routes for the next three years,” said VTrans Secretary David Dill. “In many cases, partnerships between local employers and the public transit provider were established to ensure that the grant funding would stretch as far as possible, effectively serve the commuting-public, and have the greatest overall positive economic impact.” New or expanded routes to receive funding include: •Addison County Transit Resources will receive just over $250,000 annually for the next three years to expand service of its existing Burlington LINK shuttle, the Middlebury Shuttle, and the Tri-Town Shuttle. •Chittenden County Transportation Authority (CCTA) will receive approximately $695,000 each of the next three
ROADSIDE (NATIVE) AMERICA—An autumn backdrop sets off this beautifully constructed Great Plains tipi located along Route 100, just south of the center of Rochester, Vt. Tipis are often associated with Native Americans, but non-Great Plains Indians, such as Vermont’s Abenaki native people, built different kinds of dwellings.
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Photograph by Shawn Pemrick Photography
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