Burlington's Fletcher Allen Health Care has been given permission by Vermont health care regulators to spend $3.7 million for planning a new inpatient bed facility to replace some hospital rooms that are 70 years old. The city of South Burlington is moving forward with plans to build its own city center. Vermont state officials say they are continuing to investigate the possible misuse of a pesticide in the Rutland area by a pest control company. In New Hampshire, today is the last day to bid for five moose hunt permits available through an annual auction.
A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
Annie Russell was VPR's Deputy News Director. She came to VPR from NPR's Weekends on All Things Considered and WNYC's On The Media. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School.
