PFFFFFFT!
"Vt. police say Mass. man drove to jail drunk" by John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff | April 13, 2010
I always feel like tossing a few back after reading a Boston Globe.
Timothy Carney was sentenced April 6 to two days in jail for drunken driving in Vermont, but that was just the beginning of his legal troubles in the Green Mountain State.
The 42-year-old Sudbury man had been in court last week to answer charges that he was driving drunk at a police checkpoint in Vermont in September. A judge ordered him to report to jail that afternoon for the two-day sentence, but police said Carney was drunk again when he drove himself to the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, Vt., to serve his sentence a few hours later.
Staff at the prison said they noticed his intoxication and called police. Now Carney is facing a second charge of driving under the influence. Police released him back to the jail to serve out his sentence on the first charge, and Carney is due back in court later this month on the subsequent one.
According to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, Carney has a checkered driving record in his home state. His license has been suspended several times, including in January 2005 for operating under the influence and in March 2006 after five traffic accidents in which he was ruled more than 50 percent at fault.
In August 2007, a warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of driving with a suspended license and a suspended registration and operating an uninsured vehicle. The Middlesex district attorney’s office could not immediately locate information on the 2007 case yesterday.
Calls to Carney’s home went unanswered last night.
I'm not answering the Globe's call.
"Police recapture man for questioning
A man who police say jumped out of a window and into a river to evade police has been arrested in Burlington. Police say 28-year-old Gregory Abts was being questioned about a domestic assault Friday when he leaped from a second-floor window and fled. Police used dogs to search for him but were unable to find him. Yesterday, police found Abts. He apparently jumped into the Winooski River during the chase, but surrendered to police who surrounded him on the river bank (AP)."
Another who gives a damn.
And a REAL IMPORTANT ITEM like this gets a BRIEF!
"Vermont dairy farm situation grim
Vermont's Agriculture Secretary, describing a "worst-case" scenario, says as many as 200 dairy farms in the state could be forced out of business by the end of the year. Roger Allbee says that's the result of the collapse of milk prices last year. The Burlington Free Press reports the state says there were 1,017 dairy farms in Vermont on April 1. Under the worst-case scenario, that would fall to 817 dairy farms in less than eight months. Deputy Agriculture Secretary Diane Bothfeld says some farms could start folding this spring because they don’t have the money to buy seeds to grow crops to feed cows.
That is the plane, isn't it?
Then big Agro can buy 'em up cheap!
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At least Vermont is TRYING to do the RIGHT THING!
"Blue State of Vermont one of just a few trying tax cuts" by Dave Gram, Associated Press | May 14, 2010
Yeah, but you have to SHRINK GOVERNMENT and its LOOTING at the same time!
MONTPELIER — Vermont, often regarded as one of the most liberal states in the country, is bucking the trend of raising state taxes to boost its economy and heading in the opposite direction, cutting capital gains and estate taxes.
And THEY are going to GROW as YOU FLOUNDER, Bay-Staters!
Just a handful of states have joined Vermont in trying to fight their way out of the Great Recession with tax cuts.
TRUTH and RIGHT are ALWAYS ORPHANS at the START!
At least 35 states have opted for tax increases to respond to fiscal woes brought on by the economic downturn, according to a Washington think tank that studies government budgets....
And they are STILL HURTING and CUTTING BUDGETS!
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At least they settled something up there:
"Vermont towns settle centuries-old boundary dispute" by Wilson Ring, Associated Press | April 27, 2010
ST. GEORGE, Vt. — A Colonial-era boundary dispute between two Vermont towns that were never exactly sure where one ended and the other began is finally going to be settled.
Is this really worthy of a full piece while the dairy farm closures are a brief?
But it was old maps, not GPS or
Vermont itself was a byproduct of a land dispute between the colonies of New Hampshire and New York. Both issued land charters for the area between the
Related: Casper's Hometown
That why the Globe has forgotten them?
Much of what became Vermont was first surveyed in the 1760s using primitive equipment in nearly trackless wilderness....
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"Late-day meals fill empty bellies; US program feeds Vermont children" by Lisa Rathke, Associated Press | May 10, 2010
BRATTLEBORO — The number of Americans who live in food-insecure households — those that at times don’t have enough nutritious food — rose from 36 million in 2007 to 49 million in 2008, according to the most recent report from USDA’s Economic Research Service.
Related: Obama Talks With His Mouth Full
That is as he is tossing tax loot to war-profiteers, banks, and Israel.
Among those, 16.7 million were children, up from 12.4 million in 2007.
Nearly one in four children in the United States are food insecure and about one in five live in poverty, according to a report from Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks around the country....
That is a NATIONAL SCANDAL and one you RARELY READ ABOUT!
Certainly not as often as "terrorists" that are under every MSM pebble.
Well, I better get moving, readers.
"Tip leads owner to missing tortoise" by Associated Press | April 24, 2010
Oh, I'm going to run around this story like the hare.
ALBANY, Vt. — A 116-pound African tortoise is back home after having been stolen from its enclosure on a Vermont farm.
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The 20-year-old Geochelone sulcata male, which vanished April 11 from a barn in Albany, was located after a telephone call late Thursday from a woman who told owner Peter Lowry she knew where the tortoise was.
Lowry said the woman led him to a mobile home in Craftsbury where the tortoise was being kept by a man who had been asked by a teenage boy to watch it. The man did not know it was stolen.
The tortoise was unharmed. Lowry, 66, a farmer who also keeps macaws, cockatoos, and snakes, said he and the police now know who took the animal.
Why?
No one has been charged, though.
There is only one reason I can think of.
Vermont State Police Lieutenant Bruce Melendy said the investigation is continuing.
“It’s a very odd tale with a very happy ending,’’ Lowry said. “I’m relieved.’’ He plans to install surveillance cameras in the barn where the tortoise resides.Sigh!
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Peter Lowry’s African tortoise is now back in his pen safe and sound. (Peter Lowry via The Associated Press)
Hey!! How did he beat me to the finish line?
