Burlington City Council votes to rename airport for Patrick Leahy
Ten councilors voted in favor of the new name, which Mayor Miro Weinberger announced during his State of the City speech last month. Two councilors opposed it.
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Ten councilors voted in favor of the new name, which Mayor Miro Weinberger announced during his State of the City speech last month. Two councilors opposed it.
The Mountain Times By Jack Lyons/VTDigger Soon after Vermont’s first wave of Covid-19 deaths subsided in May, another wave of death quickly began to climb: traffic collisions. Crashes at one point surpassed the death toll of the coronavirus, and killed 62 people in the state in 2020, up from 47 the year before. Vermont roads have had less traffic and fewer crashes than usual during the pandemic, but the percentage of crashes that ended in a fatality in 2020 is significantly higher than previous years, according to data from the Agency of Transportation. The summer proved especially deadly ...