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Aug 2024
13m 11s

Ten years after

Vermont Public
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Celebrating 10 years of new filmmaking talent, with the outgoing executive director of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Plus, Vermont receives a federal disaster declaration for mid-July flooding, FEMA may potentially update its flood map for Johnson, a new state government office aims to help bolster the workforce to fill vacant jobs, a proposal to c ... Show More
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