By Guy Page
Cabot’s parent company is “recalling 189 cases of Cabot’s 8-ounce Extra Creamy Premium Sea Salted Butter” due to fecal contamination, reports CBS News and lots of other outlets, as reported in today’s Journal-Opinion.
The butter comes in cardboard packages containing two 4-ounce sticks.
“ts product code is UPC 0 78354 62038 0, and it was distributed across seven states, including Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Arkansas, the report says.
Vermont’s a good state for avoiding employment scams – PrivacyJournal’s analysis of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data shows Vermont ranks as the second least risky state in terms of employment scams, just behind Maine.
Vermont performs well in nearly all metrics, including the number of job scam reports, financial losses from scams, the growth rate of reported incidents, and the unemployment rate. Vermont achieved an impressively low vulnerability score of only 6.420 points, with its sole challenge area being the percentage change in total financial losses (2022-2024).
For perspective, California ranked as the most vulnerable state with a score of 65.789 points. California’s higher risk factors include its substantial population and larger immigrant communities, demographics that scammers often target.
The study reveals a pattern where rural states like Vermont consistently demonstrate lower vulnerability to employment scams. See complete details and methodology.
Norwich to welcome grad as new prez – On April 24, Norwich University is set for the inauguration of Lt. Gen. John Broadmeadow as only its 25th President since the school’s founding in 1819.
RFK assassination files to be released – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced that the Trump Administration will release files related to the 1968 assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the coming days, the White House pool reported April 10.
Gabbard said those papers “have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. We’ve been scanning – we’ve had over 100 people working around the clock to scan the paper around RFK – Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, as well as Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination,” Gabbard said.
Vermont history leader passes – historian and former Vermont Historical Society Executive Director Michael Sherman died last month at age 81, the VHS reports.
“He was an enormous figure in the world of Vermont history, and for decades played a major role in the scholarship, organization, and study of the field,” the VHS says.
Sherman was VHS’s Executive Director from 1985 to 1995 and remained as editor of our scholarly journal, Vermont History until his passing. In 2004, he co-authored (with Gene Sessions and Jeffrey Potash) Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont, and was the author of numerous books and articles that explored and enriched our understanding of Vermont’s story.
Beyond VHS, he was a professor of Liberal Studies in the Adult Degree Program of Vermont College of Norwich University / Union Institute & University from 1996 to 2006 and was the Academic Dean of Burlington College in Burlington from 2006 to 2008.
Smart Bassinets for Vermont fentanyl babies – Nurses at UVM Children’s Hospital have trialed a new innovation for infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Their goal: determine whether responsive bassinets – baby beds with built-in technology and sensors designed to help babies relax and sleep longer – could help support opioid-exposed infants and the nurses who care for them.
Researchers found that the use of smart bassinets reduced patients’ average length of stay in the NICU by more than 17%, or between five and six days, and decreased poor sleep scores by more than 41%. The study monitored about 100 infants.
Nurses also reported benefits, with 84% of nurses surveyed reporting the bassinets saved them up to two hours per shift – allowing them to provide more care to patients across the NICU.