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Prize-winning author writes about woodchucks and flatlanders
By Guy Page
Business owners in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom are voicing growing concern over a noticeable drop in Canadian visitors, a trend they say is linked to heightened political tension between the U.S. and Canada, according to today’s Caledonian-Record.
“I would pin us as extremely concerned,” said Dehlia Wright of Jay Peak Resort, where about 40% of their clientele typically comes from Canada.
As the summer season gets underway, the resort has already seen cancellations, particularly among Canadian golf groups. Wright said the resort is preparing for a “softer winter,” citing early cancellations and a chilling effect caused by rhetoric from the U.S. federal government.
Loralee Tester, executive director of the Northeast Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, said Canadian tourists usually account for 10% to 30% of business for many local shops, restaurants, and attractions. The recent decline, she said, is already being felt.
Vermont writers’ prizes awarded – Green Mountain Power has announced that Devon Bedor from Lyndonville and Sara Amatruto from Randolph Center are the winners of this year’s Vermont Writers’ Prize, the Journal-Opinion reports. Their winning works are featured in the summer issue of Vermont Magazine, available now.
In addition to having their works published, the winners each receive $1,250.
Bedor won the poetry category for “Sowing Season” while Amatruto won the prose category for the short story, “Finding Mr. Harrington.” An example of its prose:
Henry looked at me over his muffin. “It would take a lot more than death to get my woodchuck family to leave Vermont, Ellie.”
Being a “flatlander transplant” myself, I’d never quite understood why someone would be so attached to one space.
Amatruto grew up in the Manchester, Vermont area before relocating to Bradford and then settling in Randolph Center.
VT sues over genetic data sale – Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark announced Tuesday that the state has joined a bipartisan coalition of 28 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to block the proposed sale of personal genetic data collected by 23andMe as part of the company’s ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.
The lawsuit and a separate formal objection—both filed in federal bankruptcy court—seek to prevent 23andMe from auctioning off the highly sensitive genetic information of 15 million customers, including thousands of Vermonters, without their explicit knowledge or consent.
23andMe, known for its direct-to-consumer DNA testing services, filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and is now seeking to liquidate its assets, including customer DNA profiles, health traits, and related medical data.
Vermont and its partner states argue that such deeply personal information cannot be treated as a typical business asset in a bankruptcy case. The coalition contends that selling this data to third parties without informed, affirmative consent from every customer risks future misuse, potential data breaches, and violates basic privacy expectations.
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Imagine that, golf and biking reservations cancelled. Perhaps it was the fact that we have had almost exclusively rainy and cold weekends that caused those folks to cancel their outdoor plans. But never let the weather get in the way of geopolitical rhetoric.
For all those who so glibly paid someone to take a sample of their DNA and encouraged me to do likewise…I told you so.
In 2020 and ever since, billions of people willfully, or under duress, shove swabs up to their cranium and hand them over to whomever. Where did all those swabs go and to whom? Many are in labs across the country and across the globe – doing with them only God knows what – He will respond in His timing.
In order to detect a phantom virus (aka test the efficacy of biologal weapons of biological warfare), people willfully, without informed consent, turned over their DNA – 23andMe was the same ruse controlled by technocrats and globalist freaks of misery. How does it feel to be a free ranging lab rat? It is how they view us and how they abuse us. Crimes against humanity.