For the second year in a row, Ronan Howlett, an 8th grader
from Middlebury Union High School, has won the Vermont State Spelling Bee. Howlett beat 42 other students that were
competing in the Vermont State Spelling Bee.
The press release says Emily Ballou, of South Royalton School, came in
second. Nicholas Knudsen, of Frederick H Tuttle Middle School came in
third. Next Howlett will travel to
Washington D.C. to compete against top spellers from every other state in the
Scripps National Spelling Bee in June.
Governor Peter Shumlin and Agriculture Secretary Chuck Ross
announced a statewide Workplace Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program today. The program will allow Vermont State
employees to purchase locally grown food and produce at numerous sites around
the state. More than 30 employees
participated in the pilot project in 2012, about 75 percent had never
previously participated in a CSA. About
15 state buildings across the state have been identified as possible sites.
A young man whose father lives in Vermont is one of the
latest casualties in Afghanistan.
Twenty-one-year-old Army Specialist Zachary Shannon was one of five
people killed Monday when a Black Hawk helicopter went down. The Vermont National Guard says Shannon's
father lives in Guildhall, plus his grandfather lives in Vermont as well. Shannon, who graduated from high school in
Florida, was assigned to an aviation regiment out of Hunter Army Airfield in
Georgia.
Lawmakers are taking testimony today on a controversial bill
that would allow migrant farmworkers in the country illegally to get Vermont
driver's licenses. Sen. Transportation
Committee Chairman Dick Mazza said today that the bill has a lot of issues that
need to be resolved before it can be voted on by the committee and then the
full Senate. Vermont dairy farms employ
an estimated 1,500 Mexican farmworkers who say they are isolated in rural areas
and have to ask farmers or others for rides to the grocery store or doctor.
A rollover crash on Route 7 yesterday sent a Salisbury
man to the hospital with abrasions and contusions. Police say 77-year-old John Lewis was driving
north on Route 7 when he drove onto the shoulder, eventually leaving the road
and hitting trees. His Jeep Patriot was
destroyed. Lewis was taken to Rutland
Regional Medical
Center
