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WTSA News For Your Saturday, September 18th:

Brattleboro, VT, USA / 96.7 WTSA FM


WTSA News For Your Saturday, September 18th:

2 deaths and 219 new covid 19 cases in Vermont. There was one death and 23 new covid cases reported in Windham County. New Hampshire reported one death and 388 new covid cases, with ten in Cheshire County. In Massachusetts, 16 deaths and 2.024 new covid cases, with 15 in Franklin County.

The Agency of Human Services and the Agency of Digital Services determined on Friday that an outside vendor’s IT issue delayed the delivery of test results, artificially inflating Thursday’s report of 314 new cases of Covid-19 by 109. The IT glitch has been resolved and the state has identified the number of cases affected. State officials, however, emphasized that although the glitch impacted the one-day total, the cumulative number of cases over these days is accurate.

The Moving Wall, a replica of the Vietnam Veterans memorial, is in Brattleboro for the weekend. The wall is a series of panels with the names of every person killed or missing in Vietnam listed. Area Veterans groups are on hand for the display at Fullflex field off Putney Road, which ends Monday.

Vermont’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.0 percent in August, according to the Department of Labor. This reflects no change from the prior month’s revised estimate. The comparable United States rate in August was 5.2 percent, which was a decrease of two-tenths of one percentage point from the revised July estimate.  The Labor Force and the number of Employed sowed significant gains from July. However, even as the number of Employed and Unemployed showed major improvement from last year, the Labor force is still down nearly 5,000 workers.

Vermont’s General Fund, Transportation Fund, and Education Fund receipts were nearly 7 percent above monthly consensus expectations from the July 30, updated consensus revenue forecast. General Fund revenues for the month totaled $122.25 million, or $11.5 million above the monthly consensus revenue target, as the personal income tax bounced back from July.

New Hampshire’s two members of the U.S. House of Representatives are urging President Joe Biden to reopen the land border between Canada and the United States. On Friday Democratic U.S. Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas sent a letter to the president urging him to allow the safe and responsible reopening of the land border between the two countries to vaccinated, non-essential Canadian travelers. The border was closed to non-essential travel in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Last month Canada opened its land border to fully vaccinated Americans. The U.S. order that keeps the border closed is set to expire on Monday. Previously the U.S. has extended the closure. 

LOTTERY NUMBERS:

TRI STATE PICK 3   7-1-5

TRI STATE PICK 4   2-8-8-6

TRI STATE GIMME 5   3-11-13-19-32

MEGA MILLIONS   17-32-40-59-61 MEGA BALL  18

MASS CASH   15-17-18-20-32

WTSA SPORTS:

As heard on 99 5 The Beast last night, in Boy’s High School Football action, Brattleboro gets their first win of the year with a convincing 34-0 win over North Country. Next Saturday, Brattleboro hosts Mt. Anthony in the Annual Elwell Trophy Game. You can hear the game on 99 5 The Beast.

A big homerun for Bobby Dalbec helped the Boston Red Sox beat Baltimore Friday night, 7-1. Boston and Baltimore play again this afternoon, first pitch is at 1:10. The Yankees crushed Cleveland, 8-0 last night. Cleveland and New York play this afternoon as well, first pitch is at 1:05.