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Towns negotiate caps on homeless Vermonters living in motels, limiting state’s options >Melissa Driscoll, manager of the Colchester Days Inn, is working to help guests in the hotel voucher program access extensions or find alternate places to stay. DCF has multiple restrictions on hotel placements as the program winds down. Photo by Riley Robinson/VTDigger VtDigger Riley Robinson
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As the state wound down its hotel housing program, one Colchester hotel offered to close its facilities to public bookings so it could continue to host Vermonters experiencing homelessness.
Melissa Driscoll, general manager at the Colchester Days Inn, said the suggestion was not profit-driven. The hotel makes a significantly higher rate booking travelers than voucher program guests, and rooms sell quickly in a reemergent, post-lockdown travel season.
Bringing a person to shore for examination was time-consuming and presented logistical problems, Vermont State Police said.
The on-water exams have been in use elsewhere for as long as a decade, but not by VSP until now. Frankly, this has been a blind spot of ours, said Sgt. Jay Riggen of the Vermont State Police, who trains other troopers in detecting cases of boating while intoxicated. In Vermont, the recreational boating season is so short that I don t think it had the attention from us that it really needed. And we re making that change effective immediately.
Riggen acknowledged the new checks can t prevent all emergencies, but said if more people take the issue seriously, then the water will be safer for everyone.
Man spat blood at police officer at height of Covid-19 pandemic A MAN who spat blood at a police officer during the height of the coronavirus crisis has been warned to expect a prison sentence for his “appalling” behaviour. Damien Spear, 30, had been put into the back of a police van after officers were called to a disturbance in Walton. Chelmsford Crown Court heard he had been stumbling on his feet and slurring his words, before becoming aggressive. Andrew Forsyth, prosecuting, said he began to forcibly smash his head against the inside of the caged area of the van while the officers drove to Colchester Police Station.