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A ski resort, a dream and greed: How a $350M fraud happened in Vermont’s poorest region
April McCullum and Dan D Ambrosio, Burlington Free Press
Published
3:22 pm UTC Dec. 18, 2020
No one would have recognized the man with icy eyes and a military bearing who drove through rural Vermont in 2007 with his lawyer in tow.
In anonymity, Ariel Quiros brought his real estate attorney, Fred Burgess, on a tour of the mountainous area near the Canadian border that’s known as the Northeast Kingdom. Laced with lakes and expansive forests, the Kingdom, as locals call it, is a silent fortress of natural beauty, hardscrabble dairy farms, and people eager for a return to prosperity.
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The first Covid-19 vaccine shipments in the U.S. were set to leave a manufacturing plant in Michigan on Sunday for delivery on Monday. | Morry Gash/AP Photo via pool
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SIREN … IT’S HAPPENING! “Trucks with first COVID-19 vaccine in US get ready to roll,”by AP’s Matthew Perrone, Mike Stobbe and Mark Scolforo: “The first trucks carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States were set to pull out of a Michigan manufacturing plant Sunday, with the shots that are critical to stopping the nation’s coronavirus outbreak destined to reach states a day later.
‘Long haulers’ have been sick for months
Jeff Lightizer of Plaistow tested positive for COVID-19 in July. He continues to have debilitating symptoms today Courtesy
Modified: 12/10/2020 6:00:41 PM
Jeff Lightizer had no plans of slowing down anytime soon. Aside from getting into a few bad car accidents, he was a perfectly healthy 59-year-old man who says he never smoked, and only indulged in the occasional beer. He was happy with his life as it was, crossing the border each morning from his home in Plaistow, to work at a manufacturing company in Massachusetts.
When the pandemic hit, Lightizer did everything the experts recommended.