Policing during pandemic means less in-person contact, greater anxiety
Officer David Wallant of the Barre Police Department on Monday, February 9, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
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Not only did Barre City Police Officer David Wallant have to adapt to changes in his duties because of COVID-19 so did people in his community.
Wallant, 25, said that when the pandemic hit last March, the department quickly adopted new procedures to help prevent the spread of the virus. Among them: responding to fewer calls in person except those involving violence or the threat of it and handling more cases over the phone.
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Many Vermont communities will decide issues through Australian ballot rather than floor discussion and voice votes on Town Meeting Day Tuesday due to the pandemic. This year questions range from land purchase approvals to cannabis sales.
Most communities in Vermont will accept or reject their school budgets on Town Meeting Day. In Burlington voters are being asked to approve a $95.1 million school budget. Burlington School District Senior Finance Director Nathan Lavery outlines the proposed fiscal plan. “One of the things that the budget incorporates is a significant number of operational reductions, items that are not anticipated to have any programmatic impact on student learning but are ways that we could reduce costs to taxpayers. We also made a few modest increases to the budget including adding some money to support communications with our multi-lingual families and also some money to support implementation of our new strategic plan in the coming year.”
Police: Hit-and-run driver seriously injures pedestrian
The victim likely broke a leg, according to police. Share Updated: 9:50 AM EST Feb 23, 2021 NBC5 News Staff
The victim likely broke a leg, according to police. Share Updated: 9:50 AM EST Feb 23, 2021
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A man who has made numerous appearances on the “Howard Stern Show” has been arrested on an arson charge in Vermont after he allegedly admitted to a correspondent from the radio show that he intentionally burned his house down.”
Mark “Bigfoot” Shaw Jr., 63, was arrested by police in Barre City on Wednesday on an outstanding warrant for first-degree arson in connection with a December apartment building fire, police wrote in a press release.
Police note that they had received a call from Sirius XM Radio, advising them Shaw admitted to the radio show’s correspondent Wolfie over the phone that he burned his house down and lied to police about knocking over a candle.”
Grafton County names new administrator
Littleton Town Manager Andrew Dorsett, left, is photographed with Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., Littleton Industrial Development Corp. President Greg Eastman, second from left, and Schilling Beer Co. CEO Jeff Cozzens during Kuster s visit to Littleton, N.H., on April 18, 2017. (Caledonian-Record - Robert Blechl)
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NORTH HAVERHILL A town manager with experience in both New Hampshire and Vermont starts work next week as the new county administrator for Grafton County.
Andrew Dorsett, who has been the town manager in Littleton, N.H., for more than five years, has been hired for the $121,992-a-year job.