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Thinking of Driving To Vermont? Think Twice
More than 250 roads damaged in the Green Mountain State.
View ArticleVermont Gov: Hey Vacation Homeowners, Help Us Out
Gov. Peter Shumlin is appealing to the thousands of out-of-state residents who own second homes to temporarily hand over the house keys to Vermonters displaced by the recent floods. More than 700 homes...
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Billion Dollar Storm: Will VT Revive For Leaf, Ski Season?
Little state, big damage from Tropical Storm Irene. The bill from Irene could rise to as much as $1 billion, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said Tuesday, with hundreds of roads and bridges damaged or...
View ArticleRebuilding Vermont's Roads: A Military Operation
In southern Vermont, it's an all-out sprint to restore the state's roads and bridges destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene, which may have done as much as $1 billion in damage to the state. This morning I...
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Racing the Seasons, Vermont Rebuilds Roads
I'm with Courant photographer John Woike, driving around southern Vermont and trying to assess the impact of Irene. It's hard to believe that little rivers and streams could have caused the sort of...
View ArticleWilmington, VT, Ravaged by Irene, Promises To Revive
Jerry Osler has run the Old Red Mill Inn and Restaurant in Wilmington, VT since 1973. His spacious tavern and restaurant has a deck that overlooks the Deerfield River. When Irene struck, the river...
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Residents Of Small Vermont Towns Find Hope Nextdoor
In towns hammered by the floods caused by Irene, there are community dinners, bake sales, clothing giveaways and parties to raise money for local residents who have lost their homes. It's an odd sight...
View ArticleJamaica Revival
One of the hardest hit towns we've seen in two days of driving around Vermont is Jamaica, which lies along Route 30 on the way to Stratton. When we stopped by on Thursday afternoon, the National Guard...
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Vermonters Bounce Back After Irene
WARDSBORO, Vt. -- Mitch Plimpton ran between two hulking excavators, a lone man along an empty highway, hoisting a ruined bridge by him self on a rainy Vermont morning."You wake up and you wish it...
View ArticleAll Aboard: Vermonter Finally Back On The Rails
After months of busing people north and south, Amtrak's Vermonter service, which runs from Washington, D.C. to St. Albans, VT (and hopefully to Montreal again some day) resumed over the weekend. It's a...
View ArticleEat More Kale? Gov. Shumlin Says Don't Mess With Vermont
The battle between the Eat More Kale guy and Chick-fil-A takes a new turn. Chick-fil-A, the fast food giant, thinks the Eat More Kale website and hugely popular T-shirt are too close to its own,...
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