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News Articles: Vermont

This Friday, June, 15, 2018 photo shows Lake Champlain from the ferry landing in Grand Isle, Vt.

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3 men in 3 days die after falling through ice on Vermont's Lake Champlain

The three men were all ice fishermen, and two of the men were brothers.

February 13, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Vermont state Sen. Becca Balint will become the first woman and first LGBTQ person to represent the state in Congress after winning the election for Vermont's one House seat.

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  • Elections

Vermont ends streak as the last state to send a woman to Congress

Vermont was the last state to have never sent a woman to Congress. But on Tuesday, Democrat Becca Balint won her race, and will become the first woman and first LGBTQ person to represent the state.

November 09, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
A town employee in Richmond, Vt., who quietly lowered the fluoride level in the drinking water has resigned.

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A town employee who quietly lowered the fluoride in water has resigned

The Richmond, Vt., water superintendent revealed in his resignation letter that fluoride levels have not been in the state-recommended range for over a decade — far longer than previously disclosed.

October 20, 2022
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A pickup rolls through downtown Richmond, Vt., on  Wednesday. A town employee is under fire for lowering fluoride in the drinking water below the state's recommended level.

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A town employee quietly lowered the fluoride in water for years

Residents of a small Vermont community were blindsided by news that a water department official lowered fluoride levels nearly four years ago, giving rise to worries about children's dental health.

October 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A long-running decline in COVID-19 cases nationally masks some trouble spots emerging in the upper half of the United States. The disease is hitting states in the Mountain West such as Colorado, Utah and Wyoming especially hard, but even parts of the Northeast have dealt with a worrying surge in cases and hospitalizations.

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COVID is still crushing parts of the U.S. as the holiday season approaches

The U.S. is entering an uneasy stretch of the pandemic. Despite progress, the delta surge is dragging on in certain regions. Can vaccines ward off a big surge over the holidays?

November 04, 2021
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  • Will Stone
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Gov. Kristi Noem greet President Trump and first lady Melania Trump upon arrival in Rapid City, S.D, in July. Trump was en route to Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

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Two Rural States With GOP Governors And Very Different COVID-19 Results

Vermont and South Dakota are both among the most rural states in the U.S. One has embraced coronavirus safety measures, the other has not, and their infection and death rates are starkly different.

November 20, 2020
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  • Seth Tupper
The experimental antiviral drug remdesivir shortened hospital stays for seriously ill COVID-19 patients in a federally funded study. But there's not enough of the medicine to go around.

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  • Health

How Feds Decide On Remdesivir Shipments To States Remains Mysterious

The federal government is in charge of distributing one of the few treatment options for COVID-19: the antiviral drug remdesivir. But how are decisions made about which states need it most?

August 19, 2020
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  • Sydney Lupkin

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