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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Tuesday, April 27, 2021
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A single human error was the likely cause of the Vermont Department of Labor sending thousands of tax documents to the wrong people earlier this year, according to a report into the cause of the incident.
The report released Monday by the office of state Auditor of Accounts Doug Hoffer found there were inadequate controls in place to catch the error.
The mistake led to the state Department of Labor to recall thousands of 1099-G forms sent to people who received unemployment assistance that included names, addresses and Social Security numbers.
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The Manchester Journal was honored twice in the New England Newspaper & Press Association s 2020 Better Newspaper Competition Awards including a first-place win for editorial writing by Greg Sukiennik.
Editor Darren Marcy took third place for obituary writing for a feature about Barbara Riley following the local philanthropist s death last summer.
The awards were given in the category for weekly newspapers with a circulation of more than 5,000 copies and came against the largest weekly newspapers in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Sukiennik s submission consisted of three editorials, including: Learning to live with uncertainty and Crisis proves the importance of community, both of which were about dealing with COVID-19; and The wrong place and the wrong time, which was about former state Rep. Cynthia Browning s action in Montpelier requiring an in-person vote in the early
CDC: Overdose Deaths Have Surged During Pandemic
Brattleboro Reformer (VT)
New York Times
WASHINGTON - More than 87,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in September, according to preliminary federal data, eclipsing the toll from any year since the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s.
The surge represents an increasingly urgent public health crisis, one that has drawn less attention and fewer resources while the nation has battled the coronavirus pandemic.
Deaths from overdoses started rising again in the months leading up to the coronavirus pandemic - after dropping slightly in 2018 for the first time in decades - and it is hard to gauge just how closely the two phenomena are linked. But the pandemic unquestionably exacerbated the trend, which grew much worse last spring: The biggest jump in overdose deaths took place in April and May, when fear and stress were rampant, job losses were multiplying and the strictest lockdown measures were in ef
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WESTMINSTER â Bellows Falls Union High School board member Jason Terry apologized Monday night for his verbal outburst last month at the school principal, saying he was just trying to protect his son.
âI would like to apologize for my behavior,â he said. âMy passion got the best of me.â
âOn March 23rd I was involved in a shouting match at Bellows Falls Union High School with Principal (Christopher) Hodsden and I own that. I found out recently that there were people at the high school who felt uncomfortable by that confrontation, and to anyone who feels this way you have my unequivocal apology. This will never happen again,â Terry said.
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The Brattleboro Historical Society receives requests in several forms. Some individuals respond to our Facebook posts, some send emails to histsoc@sover.net, others write letters, and still others leave messages on the answering machine. This week weâll review two of our recent requests.
A few weeks ago, we received an email from a gentleman whose great uncle had been awarded a Purple Heart for action in the South Pacific. The man to whom the medal was awarded died during World War II at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. He died early in the war, in September of 1942. The medal was sent to his mother and handed down through the family. Now his great-nephew wants to donate this medal to the historical society to be included with our WW II Memorabilia. What an honor to be asked to hold this very special object within our collection.