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On this week’s show:

• Happy Confucius Day 
• We’re number one in underage drinking
• Miro will not seek re-election
• Kinky Summer Soirée Awoke to Gunfire
• MacKenzie Scott Donates $20 Million to Champlain Housing Trust
• Outdoor Gear Exchange to open in Essex Experience
• State to continue sending incarcerated individuals to Mississippi 
• Pipe Dream? What to do with energy plant?
• New Vermont Village
• NEK is struggling to find driver’s ed folks

(59:56) Break music: Rivan - “Paper Tabs”

https://rivan.bandcamp.com/track/paper-tabs 

• Lyndonville covered bridge hit two times in one day
• Despite $2.5M investment, dental therapy program has not yet materialized at Vermont 
• Hey Bub, Citizen Cider's New Light Beer, Brews Trouble With Staff
• Stowe Starbucks  brews up controversy
• Williston considers lifting backyard chicken ban
• Judge allows challenge to horse farm search warrant
• Tea shop opens in….Rutland?
• Gazebo project hits a snag in Rutland

(1:44:54) Break music:  Justin Levinson - “Madeline for the Win”

https://justinlevinson1.bandcamp.com/album/collamer-circle 

• Scumbag Map
• 17-year-old with a BB gun
• 2 captured in Enosburg Falls armed robbery (wcax.com)
• Double-shooting suspect pleads not guilty
• VSP: Man who tried to light Molotov cocktail committed more crimes
• VT man with history of disturbances arrested again
• Cafe Risque
• Defendant accused of assaulting 8-year-old skips trial as jury waits
• Former president of Dorset library busted with embezzling 
• Kayaker busted with 26 lbs of cocaine
• Meet Ellie May, therapy dog at BTV
• 10 unhappiest states in the US revealed

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On a rare Monday show:

• Happy World Bollywood Day 
• UVM Medical Center, support staff union reach agreement 
• Federal immigration authorities send an average of 60 people to Vermont prisons 
• Judge blasts prosecutor, throws out charges against off-duty Vermont deputy
• Matthew Morgan, stuck in prison after dismissed shoplifting charge, is released 
• Cannabis Entrepreneur Says He Was 'Hoodwinked' 
• Brattleboro Selectboard approves municipal EMS takeover 
• Burlington tries to clean up “problem property”
• Northeast Kingdom Buddhist retreat child sexual assault
• Addison County educator steps down after racial slurs

(57:40) Break music: Dumbanimals - “Lollygagger”
https://thedumbanimals.bandcamp.com/album/thrift-pop 

• Skateboarders Cry Foul Over Bolton Valley's Plan to Close Indoor Park 
• Armed With a Video Camera, One Man Documents Crime and Disorder 
• Benchmark - the Vermont space program
• Town leaders in Isle La Motte resign
• Friends and Strangers Come to the Aid of a Scammed Baker 
• Some Vermonters Find the Cost of Newly Expanded Broadband Is Too High 
• Police seize 27 pounds of cocaine from Rhode Island man
• New Cortina Inn owners wish to pay less for police services 

(1:45:45) Break music:  Community Breakfast - “Beck’s Song”
https://communitybreakfast.bandcamp.com/album/the-landscape-is-the-only-thing-that-never-changes

• Scumbag Map
• Bennington man found competent in aggravated domestic assault on mom 
• Tunbridge threatens neighbor with gun
• VT authorities need help finding Manchester man
• Whatchu know ‘bout Orwell, VT?
• Old North End drug bust
• SoBu dental clinic leaves man without teeth
• Taft street ducks gotta go
• A New Nonprofit Focuses on Reptiles, Amphibians and Arachnids 
• Cat cafe owner saves 57 cats, destroys business

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On this week’s show:

•  Happy National Star Trek Day 
• Zero VT businesses have received disaster unemployment assistance
• Fugitive caught!
• No sleeping, standing, sitting on public land
• Global Foundries pitches a solar array in Williston
• State argues for change in fentanyl laws
• Huge surge in migrant crossings at northern border
•  VT Diaper Bank running low
• UVM named among nations most LGBTQ-friendly college/university
• Bram Kranichfeld appointed interim Franklin County state’s attorney 
• Estimated Cost for New Burlington High School Rises $19 Million 
• Increase vehicle theft at Burlington airport mostly due to unlocked doors

(1:03:09) Break music: Fredde Losambe “Slip n Slide”

• Shots fired by USA Today - Ben & Jerrys ranked among worst tourist traps
• Glo - do you have garden envy?
• Vermont golf professional raises $15,000 after playing 100 holes in a day 
• Family can’t find a home; buys Ripton Inn
• Lawsuit challenges short-term rental ordinance in Burlington
• The Essex Reporter returns - any advice, Glo?
• Essex contest to find the city’s greatest tree
• Shooting range noise complaints in Charlotte
•  New trend - birth photography

(1:50:49) Break music:  King Loosestrife “Eat the Stars”

• Scumbag Map
•  Man said his actions were ‘calculated’ in killing mother and her son, 
•  Whatchu know bout Whitingham, VT?
•  18-year-old faces four life sentences for sexual assaults 
• Rutland Shooting
• Plea deal calls for Vt. murder suspect to testify against mom 
• Setting off explosives to harass a neighbor + the mugshot
•  Cemetery vandalism
•  Man crashes car to avoid prosecution in hay, syrup scams
• Man hit while cleaning up roadkill

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On the show:

• Happy National Eat Outside Day 
• Yankees update
• Bread Loaf festival spreads COVID
• 13% of Vermonters reported flood damage
• 13% rise in short-term rentals
• Justice for Koffee Kup workers
• Man kept in prison for dismissed shoplifting charge now eligible for release
•  Vermont’s EB-5 settlement calls for attorneys to receive $5.5 million
•  Lawmakers Drop Impeachment Inquiry After Prosecutor Resigns
• PCBs strike again at Bellows Falls school
•  Seniors get discounted fair rides
•  Gator on a stick debuts at Champlain Valley Fair

(1:04:37) Break music: (Bennington) Immune Friction - “The Use”

• Hot air balloon lands on Vermont highway median after being stalled in flight
•  Yay Milton - boy scouts build beds for needy youth
•  Boo Milton - Selectboard defunds Milton Artist Guild
•  Towbin steps down… again
•  Progress report on electric school buses
•  A West Rutland sapphic mystery novel
•  Matt, as a former bar man, does this plan make sense?
•  Vermont's most photographed fall foliage spot will have restricted tourist access 

(1:41:40) Break music:  Chin Ho! - “Phish Sticker”

• Scumbag Map
•  SoBu man leads police on wild chase
•  Winooski man loses his mind in Burlington bar
•  Burlington man threatens people with a metal pipe
•  Former Vt. school bus driver pleads guilty to child sexual abuse (wcax.com)
•  Attempted bank robbery in Morrisville 
•  Burlington Police negotiating with armed robbery suspect (wcax.com)
•  Cabot man steals ATV
•  Two years for a fraudulent alpaca farm
•  Moose on the loose
•  Montpelier pool “goes to the dogs”
•  Bob Barker and Betty White’s beef over an elephant

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On this week’s show:

• Happy national I Love My Feet day
• Bag balm marketing ideas
• Pepsi Joe and a skunk
• To our Burundi listeners - Amahoro!
• Glo reveals mystery item
• Anthony LaPaglia or Aidan Quinn
• No more worker relocation incentives
• Vermont’s cannabis industry looking strong
• 15 incarcerated people given codeine, Tylenol instead of opioid 
• Former Burlington REIB director witch hunt?
• New details emerge in Leicester murder 
• How UVM is working to address student safety concerns 
• UVM Announces Plan to Build Housing for 540 Students

(54:04) Break music: (NE Kingdom) Kyle Chadburn & the Earthbound Spirits - “Wait So Long”

• Giant wooden troll that became local sensation retreats from public view 
• Milton residents need BBQ incentives not to break law
• Swiss heir to industrial fortune establishes big estate in Stowe
• Orange County sheriff’s certification back in place 
• Things went awry at the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival
• Nude self-portraits lead to teacher’s firing
• SoBu School Board will vote to get rid of their chair
• VT DMV warns of buying flood-damaged cars
• Barton weed shops open snack bars

(1:36:26) Break music:  (BTV) The Wormdogs - “Nouns”

• Scumbag Map
• Prominent Panton Dairy Farmer Hits Relative With Boat 
• Brattleboro man pleads guilty to exploiting grandparents
• Man tries to elude police in Shaftsbury
• Purple motorcycle scofflaw in the NEK
• Alleged burglar dies by suicide
• Fight nets kidnapping charge 
• An old poker shootings gets closure
• Invasive insect found zigzagging on Vermont elm trees 
• More mosquitoes in VT
• Newly discovered snake species named after Harrison Ford
• Dunkin spiked iced coffee coming to VT
• Monument Dairy Farm

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An interactive puzzle show as commanded by Glo. Click the link below to guess what this gadget does.

Picture of gadget:
 
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On this week’s show:

• Happy national watermelon day
• American Precision Museum
• Norwich Inn
• Concord, NH
• Providence, RI

() Break - no music

• Many businesses not re-opening after flooding
• What do we do with these manufactured homes?
• Don’t freak out if Lake Champlain changes color
• VT Schools beefing up security
• So many syringes in Burlington
• Wake boat fight rages on
• Conservative group goes lawsuit-crazy in Vermont
• Can't get fired for sharing salary

() Break music: All Night Boogie Band - “Meet Me At The Station”

https://allnightboogieband.bandcamp.com/track/meet-me-at-the-station 

• Middlebury College has too many students
• Queer theater company debuts
• Expensive bike stolen from Bolton Valley
• Community rallies after Radio Bean burglary
• Winooski manufacturer busted for not being so safe
•  Saint Albans wolf monument re-erected
•  ATV debate in Washington, VT
•  Whatchu know ‘bout Washington, VT?
•  Lead pipe survey in Rutland
•  Noodle crime deterrent in Guilford

() Break music:  McWavy - Anything (You Wanna Do)

https://mcwavy.bandcamp.com/track/anything-you-wanna-do 

• Scumbag Map
• Montpelier co-op perv
•  VT woman strangled
•  Attempted bike theft gets violent
•  Burlington assault
•  Baseball bat attack in Brattleboro
•  Waterbury man with a molotov cocktail
• Modest embezzlement in Clarendon
• Bennington life sentence over weed and advil
• Vt. man sentenced for fatal shooting
• Skeleton believed to be former Arlington man found in Lake Champlain 
• App used to track dispaced pets
•  Merrymac Farm saves starving horses

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On this week's show:

• Happy national Chili Dog day
• Happy national New Jersey day
• Happy national Refreshments day
• Flood tally so far
• Vermont not a climate haven after all
• Officials consider buying out homeowners in vulnerable areas
• Flood cleanup crews accused of dumping debris in river
• Flood recovery scams
• Rental scams on the rise
• Charity merch? Better than Vermont strong?
• Vermont cleans up in national cheese competition
• CCV cuts tuition for in-demands fields
• Bernie still pushes for a higher minimum wage
• Over the counter hearing aids rolling out to VT pharmacies
• Lake Monsters to host home run derby

(57:24) Break music: Brand New Luddites (Fayston, Vermont) - “Internet Race”

• First lady brigadier general in VT National Air Guard
• Burlington considers limits on military flight training 
• Green light for South End housing in Burlington
• The Burlington Symphony is back, baby!
• New Burlington recycling rules
• One man’s trash…
• Ever heard of a “road diet”?
• Crossing walk experiment in Rutland
• One less gazebo
• We’re getting a new cider joint in Essex 
• Would you drink a Vermont from Sammy Hagar?
• A ‘Higher Calling:’ Cannabis charity / concert

(1:49:56) Break music:  Fabo (feat Rivan) - VT Vahbe

• Scumbag Map
• Vt. murder suspect pleads not guilty to new charges in random attack
• Hit and run in Johnson
• Leave the Dummerston convenience store alone!
• Man denies stolen property charges
• Woman steals birdhouse
• Vermont teen tries to bribe state trooper
• Dog Strangling Vine

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On this week’s show:

• Happy national Junk Food day
• “Important” white guy shows up to look at devastated town
• Vermont Strong license plates to come back
• No relief for weed businesses
• Hiking on hold
• Majority of milk saved during flood
• Low unemployment rate in Vermont 
• Darn Tough doing good
• Skeletal remains in Lake Champlain
• UVM hockey sexting

(1:00:30) Break music: Tall Travis - “Old Jack”

• Items stolen from Beetlejuice 2 set
• New Burlington bike-share program celebrates launch
• New plan for Barge Canal
• Higher Ground is moving
•  The good Zuck needs a boat for his book tour
• Barre family sues Glock over hair trigger
•  The Tunbridge Fair persists
• Vermont Will No Longer Register Cars In Any State 

(1:41:17) Break music:  Haze Holiday (feat Young Zee, Scott Phree and Khalib) - "ReDRuM"

• Scumbag Map
•  Gun threat at Mama T’s
•  Death at Firefly Festival
• Saint J standoff
•  Murder in Burlington
• Violent home invasion
• Frustration mounts in Pawlet 
• Local Man Charged With Smashing A Radio On Another Man’s Head 
• Vermonters are helping care for displaced pets
• Leave no rabbit behind

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On this week’s show:

• Happy national Dive Bar day
• Nude man in Downtown Burlington - probably not Superman
• Sad Yankees update
• New Wheel of Fortune host - it ain’t Vanna
• Ready-to-drink cocktails hitting the shelves
• 23 rural towns get high-speed internet
• Homebuyers skipping inspections
• Solar for All!
• Legal challenge coming for Vermont’s new gun law
• State to pay up to $16.5 million to resolve EB-5 claims
•  Vermont eases homeschooling standards
• Which out-of-state driver's licenses are invalid in Florida?
• Judge orders Slate Ridge owner Daniel Banyai to be arrested -

(1:03:41) Break music: Violet Crimes - “Ledbetter”

https://violetcrimesvt.bandcamp.com/track/ledbetter 

•  Brattleboro scores a point for most liberal city - lets 16 yr olds vote
•  Lt Gov Zuck to fo on banned book tour
• Orange County Sheriff’s books are too messed up to audit
•  Trolls coming to South Londonderry
• Are Vermont prisons safe?
•  Christian law firm threatens school before anti-trans events
•  Burlington short-term rental scofflaws
•  Christmas Tree Shops close
•  Hubbardton constable decertified
•  $22 million federal grant to improve downtown Burlington 
• Are you hopping on the trolley?
•  History corner: Vermont’s most important inventor

(2:07:27) Break music:  DiTrani Brothers - “Smoke and Wine”

https://ditranibrothers.bandcamp.com/track/smoke-and-wine 

Scumbag Map

•  Woman steals engagement ring
•  Woman forges checks in Barre
•  Northfield woman dealing drugs
•  Rutland shoplifting spree
• Linemen save crow
•  Soft-shelled turtles going home
•  Barre cemetery struggles with grubs
•  Vermonters struggle with beavers
• For The Third Time This Week, Earth Sets  An Unofficial Heat Record

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On this week’s show:

• Happy national Take Your Dog to Work day
• Vermont police can still lie to the youths
• Vermont mom wants to raise awareness about fentanyl lacing
• Lawmakers approve deal to extend motel shelter
• Anti-anti-trans protest
• Are these the top 2 athletes in Vermont?
• VT Poetry and prose winners
• Plink! - the future of beverages?
• Bottle bill in limbo
• Pop-up business signs becoming a nuisance
•  Vermont’s giant sculpture park

(1:07:35) Break music: “Happy Son” -  Noah Kesey

•  Let’s feel good - blind VSU student dreams of career in audio
• World of Hurt wrestling
• Former Burlington YMCA to become housing
•  Cockroach comments ends Brattleboro security contract
• South Burlington High adds ZEM pods
• Wide load coming through I-89 this weekend
• Cheapest man in America lives in Vermont

(1:50:32) Break music:  Trevor Robinson -  “Still Life w/ Mounting Tension”

• Scumbag Map
• High seas killer Nathan Carman suicides
• What actually happened at the Valley Street Raid?
• Castleton man killed by Fair Haven detective
• Alleged stabbing in Barre
•  Saint Albans armed robbery
• Orleans County man threatens to blow up the government
• Montpelier woman cited when someone falls off moving car
•  Ex-CNN producer sentenced to more than 19 years for luring 9-year-old into sex 
• Celebrate the pollinators
• Countries with the largest breasts
• The Feud That Drove Rudyard Kipling From Vermont

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