WTSA News For Your Saturday, May 14th:
Progress is being made on the rebuild of the Depot Road Arch Bridge over Rock River in Newfane. According to the Vermont Agency of Transportation, the contractor has conducted the first of two pours of the south abutment footing once preparations were finalized. Next week they will form, tie rebar, and conduct the second pour. On the north side, a crane pad is being prepared to use for setting pre-cast pieces of the new bridge arch.
The Vermont Legislature has included $60.4 million in this year’s budget for the Vermont State Colleges System: $45.5 million in the system’s annual appropriation and $14.9 million in one-time funding. The investment in the system and in the thousands of Vermonters served by the institutions each year is particularly notable, as the state boosted the annual allocation to the VSC by $10 million. Vermont State Colleges Chancellor Sophie Zdatny says the funding will be used, in part to enact a tuition freeze for students for the second year in a row while modernizing academic programs and expanding workforce development offerings.”
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England will close four health centers in Vermont and one in New Hampshire next month, while also expanding the days of operation at other centers in the region. The organization announced the “difficult but strategic decision” decision Friday to shutter part-time health centers in Bennington, Hyde Park, Middlebury and St. Albans in Vermont, and in Claremont, New Hampshire, effective June 12. Over the course of a year, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England will expand the days of operation to a minimum of four or five days a week at health centers in Barre, Brattleboro, and Williston, Vermont; in Exeter, New Hampshire
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy is a co-sponsor of the Patents for Humanity Act of 2022 in the Senate. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patents for Humanity Program recognizes and rewards inventors who address global humanitarian challenges. According to Leahy, the Patents for Humanity Award winners show us the power of harnessing innovation to help people around the world, through medical, nutritional, and sanitation inventions.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Charitable Trusts Unit objects to the proposed merger transaction involving Granite One Health and Dartmouth Health Attorney General John Formella says the state has experienced significant consolidation in health care over the past several years, and this transaction seeking to combine two of our top four largest systems is unacceptable without appropriate protections for consumers in place. The A G’s office has spent several months working with these health care providers to try and find a solution, and no agreement has been reached that would satisfy the State’s concerns.
A last attempt this session to legalize marijuana in New Hampshire has failed. The New Hampshire Senate this week voted down an amendment that would have legalized the possession of up to three-quarters of an ounce of marijuana as well as three mature plants. A bill that would have legalized retail sales of cannabis at state-run liquor stores also died in the Senate earlier this year. New Hampshire remains the only state in northern New England that has not legalized the drug.
LOTTERY NUMBERS:
TRI STATE PICK 3 5-5-2
TRI STATE PICK 4 0-0-2-8
TRI STATE GIMME 5 7-11-22-24-31
MEGA MILLIONS 11-41-43-44-65 MEGA BALL 13
MASS CASH 3-20-26-31-32
WTSA SPORTS:
Jayson Tatum had the game Celtics fans were waiting for last night. Tatum scored 46 points to lead the Celtics past Milwaukee, 108-95, and earned the Celtics a Game 7 Sunday in Boston, tip-off is at 3:30.
Game 7 today for the Bruins and Hurricanes in Raleigh this afternoon, puck drops at 4:30.
The Red Sox beat the Rangers last night, 7-1. The teams play again tonight, first pitch is at 7:05. Rich Hill on the mound for Boston.
Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton are locked in, each had a homer yesterday, as the Yankees thumped the White Sox, 10-4. The teams play again tonight, Jordan Montgomery on the mound for New York, first pitch is at 7:10.
Locally, you can hear your Brattleboro Colonels Girls Softball team take on Fair Haven on your home for Colonels Sports, 99 5 The Beast and 99 5 The Beast Dot Com, beginning at 10:45am with the Colonels Pre-Game Show.