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Allison Korn, of Brattleboro, Vt., looks around the Brooks Memorial Library, in Brattleboro, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. The library plans to close its doors on Thanksgiving and reopen on Dec. 14, 2020, as the number of COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the area. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

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Vermont shuts bars, bans multiple-household gatherings

by Lisa Rathke Associated PressNovember 14, 2020

In this Oct. 23, 2019, photo, a sculpture of a skier and slopes, rear, await the ski season at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, Vt. In the tight labor market, ski areas are having a tough time hiring seasonal workers so they're upping the ante by boosting wages, offering more worker housing and other incentives. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Ski areas up ante to attract workers

by Lisa Rathke Associated PressOctober 27, 2019

A pig that escaped from a Vermont farm walks along a road Thursday.

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250 escaped pigs ‘a public hazard’ in Vt. town

by Lisa Rathke Associated PressAugust 29, 2019

In this July 23, 2019 photo, Jim Andrews, a University of Vermont herpetology lecturer, holds a young northern leopard frog in Salisbury, Vt. A wet spring has resulted in a 100-fold increase in the population of the particular frog in a region of Vermont. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

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Frog population explodes in region of Vermont

by Lisa Rathke Associated PressJuly 25, 2019

Motorcyclists participate in a "Blessing of the Bikes" ceremony in Columbia, N.H., Sunday, June 23, 2019. While such ceremonies are periodically held, the Sunday event held special meaning for the motorcycle community. Bikers and veterans are reeling from a crash, in which a pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer collided with a group of 10 motorcycles Friday evening. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

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Bikers bid adieu to 7 victims of NH crash

by Lisa Rathke Associated Press, and Patrick Whittle Associated PressJune 23, 2019

A bottle of maple syrup is displayed at the Merrifield Farm and Sugar Shack in Gorham, Maine, March 9, 2016.

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US maple syrup production up despite shorter season

by Lisa Rathke Associated PressJune 17, 2019

This Aug. 3, 2017, file photo shows a Dollar General store in Luther, Okla.

Dollar General settles with Vt. for $1.75M for overcharging

by Lisa Rathke Associated PressJune 6, 2019

Steven Bourgoin enters Vermont Superior Court on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 in Burlington, Vt. The jury found Bourgoin guilty of murder charges in the October 2016 deaths of five teenagers, caused when he drove the wrong way on an interstate highway. He faces 20-years to life in prison on each count. (Ryan Mercer/The Burlington Free Press via AP, Pool)

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Vt. jury finds man guilty of murder in wrong-way crash

by Lisa Rathke Associated PressMay 22, 2019

FILE - This combination of Sept. 27, 2012, file photos, show Jay Peak Resort co-owner Ariel Quiros, left, and Jay Peak Resort co-owner and CEO Bill Stenger at a news conference in Newport, Vt. Fraud charges were filed Wednesday, May 22, 2019, against former Jay Peak owner Ariel Quiros, of Florida, and former president, William Stenger, of Newport. The pair are accused in a multimillion-dollar fraud case on multiple federal charges over a failed plan to build a biotech facility using...

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Vt. ski resort leaders, businessman indicted on fraud charges

by Lisa Rathke Associated Press, and Kathy McCormack Associated PressMay 22, 2019

Steven Bourgoin, left, is led into court for his murder trial in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington, Vt., Thursday. Bourgoin is facing five counts of second-degree murder for a crash that killed five teenagers on I-89 in Williston in 2016.

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Psychiatrist: Suspect in deadly wrong-way crash was insane

by Lisa Rathke Associated PressMay 15, 2019