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VPR Newscast: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 12 p.m.

The City of Burlington has been working to improve its finances since 2012, and officials said today that their efforts are beginning to pay off now that the city has secured a $14 million wastewater bond from the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank. Republicans in the Statehouse say they welcome Governor Peter Shumlin’s focus on the opiate problem in Vermont, but they want more details about how he plans to pay for more aggressive treatment programs. The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says it's going to use a $500,000 bequest from the estate of an East Montpelier woman to support programs that protect non-game species. AP
About 400 customers will be without power for an hour during a planned outage in the towns of Fletcher, Cambridge and Fairfax.

Lynne worked for Vermont Public from 2002 to 2022 as a producer/reporter for special news projects.
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.
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