Vermont Catch-up (Ketchup)

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Men Make Dinner Day
• VT Troopers begin patrolling downtown BTV
• VT farms rally for Jamaica
• BETA goes public, makes a Bil 
• New “public access” license to recreate on VT Fish & Wildlife land
• Delay in return-to-work mandate
• UVM students make an app to help non-profits
• The Supreme Court hears challenges to Trump’s tariffs with Vermont ties -
• Man found dead in SoBu city hall
•  Rutland library to be used as cold weather shelter
• Hart Says Grief, Politics Led Him to Resign Vermont Senate Seat
• Mysterious swirl in BTV

(56:30) Break music:  Best Boys - “Forgive Forget”

https://bestboysmusic.bandcamp.com/track/forgive-forget 

• Burlington seeks approval for overdue harbor dredging
• UVM Students Pressure Officials to Improve Campus Housing
• Southern Vermont school board moves to close two elementary schools, go
•  Free donuts in Rutland for constitutional knowledge
• Alternative to pumpkin composting
• VT Civil War painting coming home
• Lions Club finally awards VT man
• Break Room Lets You Smash Stuff Without Consequences

(1:26:45) Break music: VT Union - “Itz VT”

https://vtunion.bandcamp.com/track/itz-vt 

• Scumbag map
• Fence damaged in Berlin
• Man beat with own gun in Burlington
• Man assaults St. J town employee
•  Feds arrest man for allegedly selling drugs near school 
• Brattleboro woman can't say sorry, gets two-days in jail for stealing niece
• Stacy blames murder on brother, then withdraws statement 
• Vt. man charged with drilling gas tank as similar thefts plague region
• Bookkeeper accused of embezzling from Vt. fire department
• Here are the top baby names of 2025

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Cat Day 
• Lawsuit over food stamp funding
• Montpelier giving away land to a developer
• Burlington micro-theater
• New downtown homeless shelter
• Scott’s safety plan
• Debacle at Hyde Park electric
• UVM Health’s children’s hospital receives $25 million donation 

(47:10) Break music:  The Rear Defrosters - Barstool Thinker

https://songsofmichaelroberts.bandcamp.com/track/barstool-thinker 

• More peepers at Stowe
• Sinking Houseboat at Lake Willoughby
• This you, Glo? Milton woman urges neighbors to Buy Nothing
• Finally - bus driver license reciprocity
• Vermont Sake

(1:13:16) Break music: The Obvious Tells - Not in Our Cities

https://theobvioustells.bandcamp.com/track/not-in-our-cities 

• Scumbag map
• 100 lbs of cocaine seized at Canada border
• Suspicious bag found in Irasburg, VT
•  VT hacker avoids jail time
•  Troy man using fake hundred dolla bills
• Whatchu know bout Troy, VT?
• High speed chase in St. J

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Bourbon Day
• Gov. Phil Scott vetoes motel program overhaul  -
• Ousted Vt. police chief asks judge to block town from hiring replacement
• Union calls for new South Burlington school superintendent
• Omnibus election bill moving through Vermont Senate
• Scott Signs Cannabis Bill That Many Growers Dislike | 
• Welch wants to pay you to bike to work
• Welch wants to pay you more
• Electric canoes
• Will Vermont court ruling settle question for neighbors of stinky farm?

(42:19) Break music:  Years Per Hour - My Day Will Come

https://yearsperhour.bandcamp.com/track/my-day-will-come 

•  Longtime Mount Holly cheesemaker looking to pass the baton
•  Killington demands a skate park
• Court dismisses father’s lawsuit against Burlington newspaper over l
• Vermont joins multistate lawsuit to protect 23andMe users’ private 
• A Surgeon Sues a Colleague — and Employer — Over Son's Death 
• A Volunteer Program Helps Older Vermonters Care for Pets 
• Vermont again leads nation in maple syrup production

(1:22:33) Break music: Hell Priest - Something Wicked

https://hellpriestvt.bandcamp.com/track/something-wicked 

• Scumbag map
•  Suspicious Lyndon barn fire
• Hinesburg woman leads police on high speed chase
• Leicester man arrested for showing up to a school intoxicated
• Gunfire in traffic Burington dispute
•  Enosburgh woman arrested in Burlington gun incident
• Montpelier man arrested for assaulting police
• Mass. woman pleads not guilty to attempted murder in Vt.
• Homicide suspect sentenced on drug, gun charges
• Vt. woman stole countless pieces of mail, investigators say

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Loomis Day
• Brave Little VT companies help smack down tariffs…for now
• ICE raid in Newport
• Vermont Conversation: Jasper Hill Farm's Mateo Kehler confronts Canadian 
• ‘How is this not price-gouging?’: Hospital drug markups spark legislation, anger  - 
• Kids Code
• VT cell phone ban in schools 
• Burlington mayor asks council to reconsider moving free food program
• An easier pathway for new teachers
• Rutland teacher unions reaches deal
• Burlington to reconsider fair and impartial policing policy

(55:45) Break music:  Marxist Jargon - Billionaires

https://marxistjargon.bandcamp.com/track/billionaires 

• Lake Monsters opening day tomorrow
• VT spelling bee veteran
• Vt. funeral home first in the state to use water cremation
• Bankruptcy judge dismisses Banyai’s attempt to block town’s property claim
• VT refugee groups launches language app
• Brattleboro drug houses

(1:24:28) Break music:   Greg Freeman - Point and Shoot

https://gregfreeman1.bandcamp.com/album/burnover 

• Scumbag map
•  Barre police log
•  Brandon death ruled shooting
•  Old North End robbery
•  Fugitive arrested in Fair Haven
• Former VT lawmaker faces domestic violence charges
•  Brooklyn coke dealer caught at BTV

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On this week's show:

• Happy National Road Trip Day
• Wedding Recap
• Burlington mayor’s wife gets a raise
• Lt. Gov. and Weed Farmer Rodgers Pushes a Bill That Would Slash His Costs 
• Spring sees spike in Vermont homicides
• Don't abuse that corpse
• Vermont opioid overdoses fell in 2024
• Youth in Vermont custody have been physically restrained hundreds of times
• Burlington’s guns in bars ban faces headwinds at Statehouse
• Food Not Cops meal program forced to move
• How do we become Citizens of the Year?
• Possible towing fee cap

(50:57) Break music:  BarbieMode - “Tug Boat”

​​https://barbiemode.bandcamp.com/track/tug-boat 

• Meet ChatGVT
• Rutland sip and shop
• Stop the Bleed training
• Resignation mulligan
• CVU students do a walk-out & Brattleboro as well
• VT Coyotes hold a combine
• Shweebee - the future of yard games

(1:24:37) Break music:   Tinkerbullet - “Mannequin”

https://tinkerbullet.bandcamp.com/track/mannequin-2 

• Scumbag map
• Man hit by train
• Richford woman charged with Medicaid fraud
• Rutland police chief in scuffle
• Fairhven stalker ruins prom night
• Maidstone man shoots at neighbors home
• Whatchu know bout Maidstone, VT?
• TD bank robbery in Brattleboro
• Brattleboro stabbing
• New Fairhaven animal mayor

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National No Pants Day
• Mobile home rules are pissing off seniors
• Vermont Construction Academy celebrates official launch
• Majority of Bradford firefighters resign in protest of chief’s demotion
• No Fairlee drive-in this summer
• Enosburgh PD
• Woodstock Police Chief Is Demoted to Patrol Officer 
• Department of Duh: minorities pulled over more often in VT
• Essex Junction looking for a rebrand

(48:35) Break music:  like bunny - Last Kids

https://likebunny.bandcamp.com/track/last-kids 

• Isle LaMotte man wants to keep old national guard tower
• How green is Vermont’s cannabis industry?
• Final Reading: Regulators prepare to roll out medical cannabis sales at Ver
• Scrappy Burlington High School Debaters Make National Finals | Seven Da
• A look at plans to transform former Vermont school into spa
• Search teams find body of missing hiker during training
• Crews rescue person stranded on island in Winooski River

(1:20:30) Break music:  Burly Girlies - $1.25

https://burlygirlies.bandcamp.com/track/125 

• Scumbag map
• Involuntary manslaughter in Barre
• How a high-profile Vermont murder case fell apart - VTDigger
• Norwich University students arrested for theft at Caledonia County cannabis farm
•  Cavendish man charged with arson
•  Whatchu know about Cavendish, VT?
•  Williamstown, VT man steals truck on cam
• Suspect arrested in Burlington shooting that injured  + 2nd suspect arrested
• Vt. teacher accused of driving to school drunk
• Former Newport substance abuse counselor sentenced following multiple vi

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Hug a Plumber Day
• Measles in VT
• Bill passes to erase medical debt
• Bootlickers raid a farm in Berkshire, VT
• Whatchu know ’bout Berkshire, VT?
• How’s that rental registry working out?
• People buying chick
• Bye Michael Harrington
• Burlington South End housing project hits a barrier
•  State employees union leader secretly filmed
• Lawmakers look at proposed new alcohol tax

(57:29) Break music:  EXIA ULTA - “Pamela Anderson Lee Calendar”

https://exiaulta.bandcamp.com/track/pamela-anderson-lee-calendar  

• Our old friend, Myers Mermel and WDEV
•  Northfield police chief criticized for attire
• The Poultney Booster club is big mad
•  Bradford teen center is blowing up
• 90-year-old track star from Shelburne, VT
• New life for Danville train station
• Burlington considers scrapping recycling program

(1:27:24) Break music:   Jas Stewart - Wasn’t for the Money

https://jasstewart.bandcamp.com/track/wasnt-for-the-money 

• Scumbag map
• Burlington knife attack
•  Restaurant stabber convicted
•  Walmart break-in
•  Store in Barre robbed
•  A sign of spring? Rutland’s first shooting of the year
•  Burlington man shoots into parked car
•  Stocker the stalker
•  A well-placed headbutt

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On this week’s show:

• Happy International Amateur Radio Day
• Zoie Saunders standing up to Trump for DEI
• Airport beef
• Middlebury encampment policy
• Gov. Phil Scott: 'The best interest' of detainees will guide decision on state a
• Manchester says “no flags”
• Bernie at Coachella
• North Hero school to close permanently in June
• Burlington Adopts Zoning to Encourage Higher Ground Move 
• A Large Farm With Pollution Problems Wants to Expand
• Burlington to offer free parking Wednesday
• Joe’s pond - spring is here!

(43:12) Break music:  Raptors - “Tiny Little Robots”

https://raptorsarethebest.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-little-robots 

• One District, One Book Reading program
• No background checks at Rutland parks & Rec
• Vermont beekeepers work to produce future generations of disease-resistant 
•  Putney Library looking for books
• Smart-cribs soothe babies experiencing opiate withdrawal
• Lamoille County Sheriff’s deputy placed on leave over conversation with de
• Final Reading: What does the Portuguese Olympic Committee have to do wit

(1:18:10) Break music:   Amystera - “Rebirth”

https://amystera.bandcamp.com/track/rebirth 

• Scumbag map
•  St J cop used excessive force in Barre
•  Something fishy about this Plainfield crash
• Police looking for Colchester shooting suspect
• Bridport teen admits to killing father
• Burlington clothes heist
•  Bring back catamounts?
•  Levi, the crime-fighting bulldog

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On this week’s show:

• Happy national Barbershop Quartet Day
• CVU students getting deported + Oh wait, maybe not
• Case of Turkish Tufts Student Arrested by ICE Will Be Heard in Vermont 
• Pownal student who brought gun to school said he was bullied
• Main Street construction hurting Burlington business
• New Burlington movie theater?
• State treasurer says tariffs could cost Vermont $1 billion a year; Local bu
• Sweeping Education Reform Bill Advances in Vermont House 
• Incarcerated dads can get child visits

(1:06:51) Break music:  Night Protocol - “Blood and Whiskey”

https://nightprotocol.bandcamp.com/track/blood-and-whiskey-2 

•  St J is getting a new sign and we can vote
•  Planned Parenthood to Shutter St. Johnsbury Clinic 
•  Whatchu know bout Saint J?
• VT needs fishing teachers
• Flushing hydrants in Colchester
• Father & son police chiefs
• Cabot Premium Butter recalled over possible fecal contamination

(1:59:00) Break music:  Kozmic Jones - “Body”

https://kozmicjones.bandcamp.com/track/5-body  

• Scumbag map
•  Man charged with the attempted murder of former boss, the chef of Brandon’s Café 
• Young arsonists in Barre
• Armed Colchester man chased woman outside daycare
•  Montpelier police log
•  Lyndon dog thief
• Vermont battles beavers for dam compliance
•  Frog-pocalypse

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On this week’s show:

• Happy national School Librarian Day
• Yankees - innovators or big fat cheaters?
• Should church pay retiring child abusers?
• Road linking VT and Montreal scrapped
• VT goin’ nuclear
• Potential changes to VT’s little known panfish market
• Welch wants local dairy farmers to get their milk in schools
• The feds are usingVermont’s prisons for immigration 
•  Amtrak’s Vermonter celebrates 30th anniversary
• Progressive young  Vermonters are giving away inheritances

(53:30) Break music:  Boomslang - “Together”

https://boomslangvt.bandcamp.com/track/together  

• BETA goes coast to coast
•  Burlington city council president challenge
• The mad hatter of Manchester 
• They’re cutting the kids rocket programs
• VT family gets an empty urn
• Local group expected to acquire Burke Mountain ski resort
• Eat Vermont app
• Vermont Brewer Donates Captured CO2 to Cannabis Grower 
• SunCommon Sues Former Manager Who Defected to Competitor

(1:38:57) Break music:  Ranjii - “Dear Life

https://rajnii.bandcamp.com/track/dear-life-2 

• Scumbag map
•  Murder for hire plot foiled
• East Ryegate shootout
• Hit and run / attempted homicide
•  Rutland roofer tax evader
•  Man arrested in Virgin Islands for threatening VT county prosecutor
•  Plainfield dog scofflaw
• Slow down for amphibians and salamanders
•  Coyote attacks person in Hinesburg

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