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Weekly Dispatch with Mayor Sullivan
Thank you for coming to my Mayor’s hours on Mondays from 9:00-11:00 AM and Wednesdays (by appointment) at the Council Room at City Hall. Hearing your ideas and suggestions, assisting with getting your needs addressed, and discussing economic development for our City is nothing shy of amazing. You are the City. Your voice is necessary and this is the venue to come to speak to me.
Cambridge's Maddy Enright crowned Queen of Queens at OVAC game halftime
Ohio County, W.Va. — The crowning of the Queen of Queens took place Saturday night at halftime of the Rudy Mumley OVAC All-Star football game. This year's winner was Maddy Enright of Cambridge High School. She was one of 23 contestants who performed Thursday night at the Queen of Queen pageant.
Restaurant owner speaks out after car crashes into patio
TROY, N.Y. (WNYT) – Wednesday morning a car plowed right through a restaurant’s outdoor patio in downtown Troy. Security footage shows the car ripping through Twisted Fiddler’s, formerly known as Slidin Dirty, outdoor patio, almost completely destroying it. Tim Taney is the owner of Twisted Fiddler, and...
Flooding resources, touring businesses, investing in Vermont
Damage in Barre from last week's flood. I can’t believe we are back here again. After a year of dedication and hard work to get your establishments back open, many of you are dealing with the aftermath of another wave of water. Please know we are thinking of you.
Vermont farmers take stock after losing crops to flooding two years in a row
BARNET, Vt. (AP) — Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont, Joe’s Brook Farm was flooded again by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. This time it was worse. Workers were able to harvest some of the produce before last week’s flooding, but the family-owned vegetable farm still lost 90% of its crop in fields and greenhouses. “When we got hit twice on the same day two years in a row it’s pretty hard to recover from that,” said Mary Skovsted, who owns the farm with her husband. Around the state, and especially in hard-hit central and northern Vermont, farmers are again assessing their losses and trying to figure out how to adapt and make it through the season and next year.
Free flood cleanup supplies available in Vermont this weekend
On Friday, eight cars drove up to a Red Cross tent and trailer on Route 2 in Plainfield to pick up cleaning supplies, garbage bags, shovels, and flashlights. Tonja Cochran drove there with a friend. She’s trying to find a place to move — the floods washed away most of her property and she’s worried her home won’t withstand the next rainfall.
Vermont institutions affected by global IT outage
Vermont was among the states affected by a faulty update to Windows servers that wreaked havoc around the world Friday morning, disrupting hospitals, airlines and governments. At Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport, early-morning flights were delayed for hours as United, American Airlines, and Delta repaired their systems. The airport’s own services, which run separately from airlines, were unaffected.
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