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On this week’s show:

• Happy Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day
• Ukranian man behind UVMMC hack
• UVM ER wants everyone to chill
• 3000 people show up for a ski jump competition
• Injured skier denied claims
• 90 year old claims skiing is secret to long life
• VT on track to become a blue zone
• VT lawmakers consider decrim inalizing psilocybin, according to the Marijuana Moment
• New bill would criminalize violence against pregnant women
• Joe’s Pond Ice Out is back
• Child hospitalized following Lake Memphremagog ice rescue
• Lady pilots? Believe it when I see it

(54:15) Break music: The Brake Lights - “Eureka”

• Burlington church selling rooms cheaper than hotels
• They’re closing the Salisbury, VT fish hatchery
• Omnibus motor vehicle bill
• VT senate considers anti-hair discrimination bill
• AI in dental offices
• Milton police get drones
• Rutland coalition wants to clean up Rutland
• Punk rock flea market returns to Rutland
• Feds award $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries,
• Burlington’s queen of mah-jongg
• Colossal Sanders
• New podcast rival

(1:59:46) Break music: Wool See - “Just Called”

• Scumbag Map
• Teenager goes airborne
• Ex-Caledonia police captain banned from police work
• Voyeur cop loses certification
• Woman found dead was strangled
• Man with knife causes 2-hour standoff in Old North End
• Chronic car thieves at Decker Towers
• Police looking for suspicious truck in Topsham robbery
• VT lawmaker accused of drunk driving
• The Fascinating Ancient Art of Dowsing and Vermont Dowsers
• Transporting animals on planes is about to get waaaaay more expensive
• Bobi, the Portuguese mastiff, loses his title

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• Happy International Stuttering Awareness Day
• Florida trip
• Adam’s car was stolen
• Holy cow - this Citizen Cider story has legs
• Miro Weinberger exploring a run for statewide office
• Investigations clear cop who shot at man in Morristown
• State Board of Education walks back proposed school anti-discrimination rules
• Proposed Air National Guard lease extension
• Plan pitched to stop stuck trucks on Notch Road
• South Burlington backs resident group in Higher Ground litigation

(53:58) Break music: Jacob S. McLaughlin - “Livin’ in Vermont”

https://jacobsmclaughlin.bandcamp.com/track/livin-in-vermont

• Sue Wear, Pet P.I.
• Colchester student and teacher becomes citizens together
• Wi-fi coming to school buses
• Pilot program to ship organic dairy directly to schools
• Vermont schools to start the weed conversation
• Montpelier postal workers can stop building fires
• Burlington Bio working on lab grown meat
• Vermont newspaper lacks reporters, turns to AI

(1:48:03) Break music: Remi Russin - “A Second Pass”

https://remirussin.bandcamp.com/track/a-second-pass-2

• Scumbag Map
• Man arrested in theft of state police cruiser, rifle
• Rutland man faces drug charges following raid
• Brattleboro man with criminal history attempts to steal coins, jewelry, apple cider
• Brattleboro twins arrested same week
• Montpelier man arrested on 2-hour long manhunt
• Woman falsely claims to be working for feds in drug bust
• The Winooksi cat shop is closing

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On this week’s show:

• Happy Confucius Day
• We’re number one in underage drinking
• Miro will not seek re-election
• Kinky Summer Soirée Awoke to Gunfire
• MacKenzie Scott Donates $20 Million to Champlain Housing Trust
• Outdoor Gear Exchange to open in Essex Experience
• State to continue sending incarcerated individuals to Mississippi
• Pipe Dream? What to do with energy plant?
• New Vermont Village
• NEK is struggling to find driver’s ed folks

(59:56) Break music: Rivan - “Paper Tabs”

https://rivan.bandcamp.com/track/paper-tabs

• Lyndonville covered bridge hit two times in one day
• Despite $2.5M investment, dental therapy program has not yet materialized at Vermont
• Hey Bub, Citizen Cider's New Light Beer, Brews Trouble With Staff
• Stowe Starbucks brews up controversy
• Williston considers lifting backyard chicken ban
• Judge allows challenge to horse farm search warrant
• Tea shop opens in....Rutland?
• Gazebo project hits a snag in Rutland

(1:44:54) Break music: Justin Levinson - “Madeline for the Win”

https://justinlevinson1.bandcamp.com/album/collamer-circle

• Scumbag Map
• 17-year-old with a BB gun
• 2 captured in Enosburg Falls armed robbery (wcax.com)
• Double-shooting suspect pleads not guilty
• VSP: Man who tried to light Molotov cocktail committed more crimes
• VT man with history of disturbances arrested again
• Cafe Risque
• Defendant accused of assaulting 8-year-old skips trial as jury waits
• Former president of Dorset library busted with embezzling
• Kayaker busted with 26 lbs of cocaine
• Meet Ellie May, therapy dog at BTV
• 10 unhappiest states in the US revealed

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On the show:

• Happy National Eat Outside Day
• Yankees update
• Bread Loaf festival spreads COVID
• 13% of Vermonters reported flood damage
• 13% rise in short-term rentals
• Justice for Koffee Kup workers
• Man kept in prison for dismissed shoplifting charge now eligible for release
• Vermont’s EB-5 settlement calls for attorneys to receive $5.5 million
• Lawmakers Drop Impeachment Inquiry After Prosecutor Resigns
• PCBs strike again at Bellows Falls school
• Seniors get discounted fair rides
• Gator on a stick debuts at Champlain Valley Fair

(1:04:37) Break music: (Bennington) Immune Friction - “The Use”

• Hot air balloon lands on Vermont highway median after being stalled in flight
• Yay Milton - boy scouts build beds for needy youth
• Boo Milton - Selectboard defunds Milton Artist Guild
• Towbin steps down... again
• Progress report on electric school buses
• A West Rutland sapphic mystery novel
• Matt, as a former bar man, does this plan make sense?
• Vermont's most photographed fall foliage spot will have restricted tourist access

(1:41:40) Break music: Chin Ho! - “Phish Sticker”

• Scumbag Map
• SoBu man leads police on wild chase
• Winooski man loses his mind in Burlington bar
• Burlington man threatens people with a metal pipe
• Former Vt. school bus driver pleads guilty to child sexual abuse (wcax.com)
• Attempted bank robbery in Morrisville
• Burlington Police negotiating with armed robbery suspect (wcax.com)
• Cabot man steals ATV
• Two years for a fraudulent alpaca farm
• Moose on the loose
• Montpelier pool “goes to the dogs”
• Bob Barker and Betty White’s beef over an elephant

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On this week’s show:

• Happy Poetry Day
• The Cookie Thief by Valerie Cox
• Series of bomb threats appear to be a hoax
• Leaf peepers outta control - trespassing tourist leads to closure
• 1 year in, has Vermont’s legal cannabis marketplace met expectations?
• BETA unveils its electric aircraft production facility in South Burlington
• Vacation rentals a huge portion of Stowe housing stock
• Vermont State University president recommends cutting 10 programs
• Judge refuses to dismiss Franklin County sheriff assault case
• Vermont’s first conservation cemetery
• Improperly imprisoned man’s case thrown out
• School employee exonerated of abusing autistic kid
• Vermont kids don’t read good
• Vt State Police want to know “How was your traffic stop?”

(1:05:00) Break music: Cady Ternity - That’s What You Think

https://cadyternity.bandcamp.com/track/thats-what-you-think

• The Big Buzz Chainsaw Festival
• Bennington Police Department arrests Kerry Raheb on multiple charges
• Ethan Allen Institute suspiciously fires Myers Mermel
• SoBu Pizza Hut rehab hits a snag
• Businessman & Notorious Drug Dealer Catches Another Break
• Milton residents raise objections as town pulls funding for local arts guild
• Lambert censured by Bellows Falls Union High School Board
• Plattsburgh Man Banned From Ferry for 'Disrespectful' Email
• Sheriff investigates swastika drawn with carrot in Putney
• Strafford residents step up to fill gaps in social safety net

(1:53:52) Break music: Aresty - Emma

https://aresty.bandcamp.com/track/emma

Scumbag Map

• Ex-Brattleboro office banned from law enforcement
• Kids bring stolen gun to school
• Attempted robbery in Marshfield
• Men arrested with drugs in an empty apartment
• 7th person sentenced in 2019 Burlington Murder
• Suspect in Burlington gunfire incident pleads not guilty to charges
• Montpelier man accused of throwing knife toward family member
• Scumbag in the air - stalking via plane
• Bats in Converse Hall frustrate UVM students
• Every state’s favor ite curse word

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