WTSA News for your Wednesday, April 24th:
Wednesday afternoon to a residence on Route 30 and Back Street, for an active burglary in progress. . Several troopers arrived and took three individuals into custody while a fourth fled the scene on foot. After a short investigation, the fourth subject was located walking on Rt. 30. The subjects involved in the burglary were identified as Lyndon Corriveau , Rodney Lumbra and Rocky Brogna of Brattleboro and Thomas Supernois of Springfield, VT. Supernois was lodged on a lack of bail and all the other suspects were released until a June 4 arraignment.
The Vermont House gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill that would raise the age to buy or possess cigarettes — including electronic cigarettes — and other tobacco products from 18 to 21. The vote was taken on a bill that contained a different implementation date than the original legislation passed by the Senate so the two chambers will have to agree on a date before it can be passed and sent to the governor. The Senate version of the bill called for an effective date of July 1, 2019. The House version delayed implementation to Sept. 1, 2019. Under the bill, violators would face a civil fine of $25 and the forfeiture of any tobacco products
Vermont Emergency Management and the Vermont Agency of Transportation will be working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency beginning today to verify damage caused by flooding on April 15. Vermont officials have initially identified more than $2-million in damages to public infrastructure around the state, twice the $1-million dollar amount in response and public infrastructure recovery costs the state must show. Bennington, Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Rutland, Washington, and Windsor counties have also shown public infrastructure damages and recovery costs exceeding the threshold a county must show to qualify.
Opponents of a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in New Hampshire came out in force to a Senate committee hearing Tuesday, arguing it would result in more impaired drivers and lead users to try harder drugs in a state already struggling with an opioid crisis. The hearing follows this months House vote to pass a bill that would legalize marijuana possession up to 1 ounce . Adults would be allowed to grow up to six plants, and a commission would be set up to license and regulate an industry supporters said could produce $33 million per year. But even if the bill passes the Senate by a wide margin, overriding a veto requires a two -thirds majority in both chambers, and absent a major shift in momentum, the support isn’t there in the House..
New Hampshire’s population continues to grow thanks largely to people moving in from other states. The latest U.S. Census estimates show the state’s population grew by 6,700 between July of 2017 and July of 2018 to reach a total of 1,356,000. With a similar increase the previous year, the gain over the last two years was 50 percent greater than the increase between 2014 and 2016. Ken Johnson at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy says that’s still modest compared to the population growth in the 1970s and 1980s, but it is a striking change from earlier in the decade when more people left New Hampshire for other states than moved in.
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TSA sports
The Brattleboro Colonels Girls softball team stopped Hartford 15-nothing. The Brattleboro Baseball team topped Hartford 13-6
The Boston Red Sox dropped a pair of games to the Detroit Tigers, 7-4 and 4-2.
The Yankees beat the Angels 7-5.
The Boston Bruins eliminated Toronto from the N H L playoffs, by a four one score. The Bruins next play the Colombus Blue Jackets in a best of seven series, beginning Thursday.