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Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone to appear at Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone will be in Vermont in August to screen a trio of films at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Stone will show and discuss three of his movies – “Platoon,” “Wall Street” and one more to be announced, according to a news release from the festival. The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival takes place Aug. 21-25.
A new normal? Climate change is bringing more extreme weather — including floods — to Vermont
“It's not going to be every year,” a forecaster from NOAA said. “But if you look across 10 or 20 years, you're going to have a slightly higher percent chance of these events happening.” Read the story on VTDigger here: A new normal? Climate change is bringing more extreme weather — including floods — to Vermont.
NY weather update: Flood warning previously issued will expire at 9:30 p.m.
The warning was for Essex County. "The Flood Warning will expire at 9:30 p.m. this evening for portions of northern New York, including Essex and Vermont, including Addison and Rutland county counties. The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures," says the National Weather Service.
Wild Video: Bear Opens Door, Fridge In Upstate New York Home
We have a video you have to see to believe of a bear inside an Upstate New York kitchen. Last week, Hudson Valley Post reported on an "aggressive" bear that destroyed parts of an Upstate New York home and returned to the home for more. "Nuisance" Bear Destroys Kitchen In...
MA Shoppers: Beware When You Swipe While Shopping!
Attention Bay State residents: When you are out doing your grocery shopping, pay heed to your surroundings especially when using a credit or debit card when checking out. Big Y supermarket discovered skimmers south of the border in two of its Connecticut stores last month. The grocery chain reports an unknown individual has attached a skimming device to one single terminal in each of its Naugatuck and Plainville locations. back on June 29th. At the present time, there are no reports of a similar incident in Massachusetts.
NY schools must notify parents of lockdown drills, try to avoid unintended student trauma
Starting this fall, New York schools will have to develop procedures for notifying parents ahead of lockdown drills and will have to make sure that drills do not mimic a school shooting or other incident of violence. The state Board of Regents, which sets statewide education policy, approved the changes...
1st leg of Burlington’s Champlain Parkway set to open this summer
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The first leg of Burlington’s Champlain Parkway is set to open this summer, after decades in the making. The project is part of an effort to funnel traffic from Interstate 189 to Burlington’s downtown. The first section creating a new road in the South...
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