Vermont Catch-up (Ketchup)

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On this week’s show:

• Happy national dinosaur day
• Why am I so happy that Trump was convicted?
• Negro league baseball records
• What does passage of Vt. psychedelic mushroom law mean? 
• The Rosa parks of being stoned at work
• Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak reappoints Jon Murad as police chief 
• US Supreme Court could take up South Burlington land use case 
• Colleagues call death of Mazza the end of an era
• Windham school district in crisis
• Some Burlington City Council members not aware of plan to support waterfront  homeless camp
•  Plans to convert Burlington YMCA into housing hit a snag
• VT bought an island

(1:01:43) Break music: HASKELL - “Let Me In”

https://haskellsucks.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-in 

• Townshend veteran finally honored by France
• Vt. becomes 1st state requiring oil companies to pay for damage from climate 
• Barriers meant to prevent truck stuckages at Smugglers Notch get tested right
• Community pushes back on Goddard College campus buyer 
• A reason to watch women’s Olympic rugby
• A Group of Burlington Neighbors Is Painting Over Graffiti Themselves 
• Unearthed by accident: a plant lost to Vermont for a century is discovered 
• VT spelling champ headed to DC & Update
•  VT 3rd best state to learn to ride a bike

(1:50:42)  Break music: WiseAcres - “Adjust the Angles”

https://wiseacres.bandcamp.com/track/adjust-the-angles 

• Scumbag Map 
• 42-year-old homicide solved
•  Danby Walmart shooting
• Northfield Kristal goes on rampage
• Saint Albans crime blotter
• Vt. police say chronic littering culprit caught, fined 

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On this week’s show:

• Happy Brother’s Day
• Its hot AF
• Phil Scott hates bees
• Howard Dean, Miro Weinberger rule out runs for governor of Vermont 
• Trend? The olds are retiring
• Tenant protections fail
• UVM halts construction of housing
• Vt. officials say $1M Lake Carmi aeration system made water quality 
• VT Search and Rescues are rising
• The Circus Smirkus guy has a memoir
• Does Burlington ha ve too many cannabis shops?

(59:47) Break music: Fattie B - "Too Complex"
https://equaleyesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lo-fi-foolishness-dated-references-collaborations-creations-1994-til-now 

• Dozens of layoffs at former Vermont Teddy Bear distribution center due to 
•  Dude jumps off 89 overpass, lives
• North hero - Grand Isle bridge stuck up
• The Harlem Wizards?
• The “Play Every Town Project”
•  Alleys project underway
• Once Off-Limits, Burlington's Rock Point Is Gradually Welcoming the Public 
•  Castleton library gets an elevator
•  How many fire trucks does Castleton need?
•  Whatchu know ‘bout Castleton, VT?
• VT’s first black restaurant owner is honored

(1:47:39)  Break music: Watercoat - "With or Without"
https://watercoat.bandcamp.com/album/circles-on-my-map 

• Scumbag Map 
• Iowa Woman Fraud
•  Milton man arrested for voyeurism
•  Rutland man tries to escape probation office
• Random punching
•  Burlington robbery at gunpoint
•  Would be pipe-bomber gets 6 years
• Burlington man accused of assaulting police officer 
•  We got a biter!
•  A civilized scumbag - Hartland break-in
• Invasive  beetles on Burlington beach

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National “Shades” Day
• No one wants to be the racial equity director
• Burlington mayor seeks to reduce graffiti problem 
• Meet your next governor, Poa Mutino
• Man accused of killing gf says not enough evidence
• Whatchu know ‘bout Searsburg, VT?
• Women’s prison proposal too big
• We got our weathervane back
• Veteran broadcaster Stewart Ledbetter to run for Vermont Senate 

(36:54) Break music: The Funky Flats - “Play the Fool”

https://thefunkyflats.bandcamp.com/track/play-the-fool 

• Notch Road barriers fail to stop tractor-trailer
• VT master sculptor wins a webby
•  VT team heading to national drone championships
•  Sip & Shop returns to Rutland
• New chef at Starry Night cafe
• We’re getting jamaican cuisine
• Brattleboro granola business for sale

(1:20:46)  Break music: Gas Station Dog Exchange - “Air”

https://gsde.bandcamp.com/track/air 

• Scumbag Map 
•  2 wrong-way drivers stopped on Vt. interstates, police say 
• Ex-corrections officer charged for smuggling tobacco into Rutland prison
• Saint Albans woman arrested for restaurant thefts
• Police say masked man killed in St. Johnsbury died from gunshot wounds to his 
• VT man shoots at occupied home
• Derby Line man held without bail after domestic assault, resisting arrest 
•  Former Vermont man charged for alleged role in death of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger 
• Stay alert for turtles

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National “One Day Without Shoes” Day
• Sanders, 82, cites Trump, nation’s problems in reelection bid (wcax.com)
• Phil Scott appoints a dem
• Roxbury junk ordinance
• Whatchu know ‘bout Roxbury, VT?
• Cannabis Company Could Lose License for Using Banned Pesticide 
• Vermont opioid deaths decline for the first time since 2019,
• Birdman Bike
•  Lawmakers at odds over retail theft bill
• Milton Inclusion Festival
• Film about tragic Vermont farmer
• Plainfield Co-op to Move to Plainfield Hardware 

(1:03:59) Break music: Raw Deff & Rico James - “Gung Ho”

https://rawdeffandricojames.bandcamp.com/track/gung-ho 

•  Burlington tries to quell annual student move out mess
•  Bitcoin ATMs
•  Breakfast-gate in Barre
•  Shady Mendon motel owner promises not to be shady
• Vt. police seek ‘artist’ behind vandalism in playful social media post
•  Save the St Albans clock tower
• Burlington businesses say construction hurts business
• New Marker Provides History of Battery Park
• Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas turns 30 

 (2:04:28)  Break music: silence_Castor - “Elsewhere”

https://silencecastor.bandcamp.com/track/elsewhere 

• Scumbag Map 
•  Suspicious deaths in South Hero
• NH fugitive found in Warren
•  Colchester man convicted for role in killing of drug rival
• Windham strangler
•  Sex assault in Barre
• Burlington man busted in perv sting
•  Saint Albans police blotter
•  Attempted murder in Kirby, VT
•  Lamb history made in VT
•  Chinese dye dogs

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National No Pants Day
• Another Howard Dean run?
•  Scott doubles down
• Frozen pizza recall
• 900% increase in blood disease at UVM MC
• Do nurses know how much other people make?
• Dental hygienist shortage 
• Report: Burlington offers just ‘adequate’ nature space 
• Vermont road crews navigate multiple mud seasons 
• Killington wants to expand
•  Rabies vaccine bait drops to begin this weekend 
•  The Crazy Contraption Camp 

(1:03:59) Break music: Tabarnak - “The Bark”

https://tanarnak.bandcamp.com/track/the-bark 

• We lost another diner - Betsy’s Dot
•  The future of fertilizer? Pee, says this Brattleboro institute
•  Pretty girl problems - former Miss Vermont kicked out of AirBnB for being too hot
•  Scowling Brandon woman named poet laureate
•  Cannabis as a home business
• No political events on playgrounds
•  Contact-less parking
• Burlington library getting shady
•  A more inclusive school calendar
• Vergennes mayor confirms city picked to host juvenile justice facility 
• 6th grader inspires Enosburgh dog park

 (2:04:28)  Break music: Terry Donahue - “Stumblin’ In”

https://terrydonahue.bandcamp.com/track/stumblin-in 

• Scumbag Map 
•  Men in Orleans cited after fight over loose pigs 
• Milton man hit & run
• Former Bristol man gets 18 years in prison for plotting with mother to kill his ste
•  Ortiz gets 7 years for leading drug ring in Orleans County - 
•  Newport wild ride
•  Saint Albans cocaine charges
•  Fairfield grand larceny
•  Tennesse e groper in Berlin

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National take your pick day
• Burlesque day
• Hug an Australian day
• Your first kiss day
• Birdhouse vandal
• State Sen Bobby Starr retires
• Ex-Norwich University president sued over inappropriate behavior
• The future of downtown Brattleboro uncertain
• Barre to Sell Two Parking Lots for $1 to Housing Developer 
• Barn preservation grants
• Airport taxi rate 
• Vermont confirms first measles case since 2018 
• Impacts of Vermont’s single-use plastic ban, 4 years later 
•  Best beard in VT
• Bruins fan goes viral w/ maple syrup sign

(53:22) Break music: The Champlain Shoregasm - “As the World Comes Apart”

https://thechamplainshoregasm.bandcamp.com/track/as-the-world-comes-apart 

•  Tree planting beef in Charlotte
•  Timbersports coming to Maplefest
•  Street sweeping season in Burlington
• Norwich Olympic rower
• Marshfield couple spreads sunflower seeds for Ukraine
•  Bradford  restaurant fined
• Tanya Sousa debuts new children’s book ‘Rescued’ at Newport, Lyndon libraries 
• Morrisville needs a bridge troll
• VTrans to install obstacles to prevent stuck trucks on Notch Road 
•  Animal communicator
• Vt. sheriff’s deputy who caused mistrial loses job 

(1:33:05)  Break music: Yann Falquet - “Du long de la mer joile” (Along the pretty sea) https://yannfalquet.bandcamp.com/track/du-long-de-la-mer-jolie 

• Scumbag Map
•  Drugs and guns in Barre
• Cops arrest man accused of choking, knife threat
•  Rutland man charged with taking photos of girl
• Rutland stabbing
• Burlington machete attack
• Two arrested after defecating in victim’s car during Barton-Lowell crime spree - Newport Dispatch
• Shots fired in Jay
• Saint J BB gun bandit
•  Montpelier police log
• Newport man faces federal gun charges 
•  Would be ATM heist in East Wallingford, VT
•  Bald eagles vs blue herons
•  Winners of pet photo contest

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On this week’s show:

• Happy National Pizza Delivery Driver Appreciation Day
• Joe's Pond officially iced out early Sunday morning  + Danville man winner
• Warning: ‘Cicada-geddon’ is only a month away (wcax.com)
• Vermont’s elderly workforce 
• Restaurant owners say Burlington police failed to respond during vandalism
• ER visits increase due to e-bikes
• Fatal car crashes finally trending down
• Welch sighting - he’s a real Senator, y’all
• Finally, a new kid prison in Vergennes
•  VT data privacy bill unlikely
• Manchester vampire

(56:49) Break music: Sleepy Spectre - “Tumble Bus”

https://gatchi.bandcamp.com/track/tumble-bus-feat-john-francy-windross95 

• Alzheimer’s memory cafes are popping up
• New Miss Vermont crowned
• Castleton University sex assault art installment
• Weightlifters set state record
• An alley is getting revitalized in Waterbury
•  Panton is getting a big-ass solar array
• We missed a momo eating contest
•  Brattleboro art smash party
• Essex flea market
• Mystery cash in Winooski

(1:48:36)  Break music: Bergadler - “Solid Veronica”

https://bergadler.bandcamp.com/album/solid-veronica 

• Scumbag Map
• Vt. police arrest teen in connection with multiple homicides 
• Hardwick man gets knife pulled on him by passenger
•  Derby gun thief
•  Whatchu know ‘bout Derby, VT?
•  Saint albans RV arsonist
•  Thieves target convenience stores for vapes
•  Kid thrown out of truck
•  Alleged dog feces flinger 

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On this week’s show:

• Happy International Licorice Day
• 160K people drove to the state for Monday’s eclipse 
• Private planes packed BTV
• Train hits car in Barton
• Bernie Sanders arsonist
• Dick Mazza resigns
• Goddard College to close after 86 years
• No impeachment for nut-kicking sheriff
• Wheeler park development goes to trial
• Would you drink Luiz Guzman's Jus?

(50:33) Break music: Ben Roque - “Charmed I’m Sure”

https://benroque.bandcamp.com/album/mad-andalusia 

• UVM hair equity program
• Work underway on Community Sailing Center in Burlington 
• Rutland robotics team headed to Houston  
• Over 1,200 Vt. contractors have signed up for mandatory registry 
• Swanton mom baby touches tussock moth cocoon
•  Ethics Panel Dismisses Complaint Against Ram Hinsdale 
• VAST reports bad winter for snowmobiling 
• Putney fire department quits
• Sugar Mountain buys Whetstone craft brewery facility

(1:32:54)  Break music: Until We’re Dead and Gone - “Everybody’s Out to Get Me”

https://untilweredeadandgone.bandcamp.com/album/burn 

• Scumbag Map
• Burglar steals from 5-year-old
• Police hunt for Massachusetts teen in Pownal murder 
• Police: Wi-Fi jammer aided burglars 
• Cocaine charges mount for woman
• Newport man charged with second degree domestic assault 
• A bunch of DUIs and wrong-way drivers

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On this week’s show:

• Should we introduce the show to any out-of-towners?
• Happy International Plan Your Epitaph Day
• Its manure season!
• VT state troopers discipline report
• Banyai video…hahahahha
• Its too expensive to be a legislator
• Maple producers boil down how the sugaring season fared (wcax.com)
• Cheese & Wine Traders closes suddenly 
• VT Flannel buys VT Teddy Bear Co
• Upon taking office, Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak pledges to 
• Montpelier to get a replacement post office nearly a year after floods left it w
• Sneak preview of South Burlington’s Hillside East development
•  Burlington sinkhole
• New state senate bill addresses sexual assault on college campuses
• Gov. Scott Vetoes Flavored Tobacco Ban 

(55:58) Break music: Mercy No More - “Point to Your Messiah”

https://mercynomore.bandcamp.com/track/point-to-your-messiah 

•  Port-a-potty businesses cashing on on the eclipse
•  Possible cannabis grow site in Rutland
• Barre making switch from police cameras
•  What is a coin drop?
•  Barton budget mishap
• Wood boiler beefin
•  Waterbury getting a skatepark
•  The Saint J scale business that changed the world
• Teen canoers rescued from Colchester pond
•  New VT based novel none of us will read
• Some Hotels Are Forcing Out Homeless Guests to Book Eclipse Tourists

(1:49:37)  Break music: Mysundrstood - “Humble”

https://www.instagram.com/mysundrstood/ 

• Scumbag Map
• Nine illegals arrested at border
•  UVM student charged in graffiti 
•  Berlin woman on probation for selling drugs is caught selling drugs
•  Montpelier police log
• New charges filed against man involved in fatal crash with rookie Rutland Police 
• High speed chase in Brandon
• Man arrested for assaulting officers, hospital staff with chainsaw in 
• St. Johnsbury man arrested for disorderly conduct with whip 

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On this week’s show:

• Happy International Mermaid Day
• Weeki Wachee
• Opening Day thoughts, Matt?
• Jeon Jong-seo
• Do you have an eclipse plan?
• VT data privacy act
• Burlington police warn of GPS tracking devices
• Car thefts continue to climb as lawmakers debate stricter penalties
• VT’s most popular creemee stand for sale
• Birch syrup?
• Sen. Sears, Gov. Scott applaud Senate approval of a bill cracking down on drugs
• Final Reading: Phil Scott’s education secretary pick draws opposition 
• Doulas want to be used more
• Are we surprised that the dude who built your house was high on opioids?
• Vermont Supreme Court suspends law license of Addison County’s 

(1:12:24)  Break music: Whiskey Priest - “Whiskey”

https://whiskeypriestband.bandcamp.com/track/whiskey 

• New VT spelling champ
• Lyndon covered bridge hit by truck yet again 
• St J getting a co-op
• Animals in Colchester blowing through school bus stops
• Saint Albans girl wins national archery contest
• Skateboarding class in Brandon
•  VT book banning policies
•  80-year-old VT couple prepare original musical
•  VT woman writes horny rock star novel

 (1:41:40) Break music: Freddie Losambe - “Burnout”

https://freddielosambe.bandcamp.com/track/burnout 

• Scumbag Map
• Police thank public for help finding South Burlington shootings suspects
• Stealing from the disabled in Essex Junction
• Attempted home invasion in Saint Albans
• 3 arrested in Saint J stabbing
• Newport serial arsonist
•  Newport man kidnapping charges
•  Hydraulic theft
• Barre police log
• Barre City vandal
• Florida man causes havoc in Barre
• Montpelier peeping tom and others

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