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Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb

Published June 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM EDT

State agencies are investigating whether pesticides sprayed for mosquito control caused a fish kill in a lake in Addison County earlier this month.

The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources holds a hearing tonight on Green Mountain Power's request to allow its wind power project on Lowell Mountain to kill up to four bats a year.

An effort to rebuild a 142-year-old Brattleboro building damaged by fire is closer to fruition.

A grand jury will determine whether criminal charges are warranted against a police officer who shot a mentally ill man during an assault arrest in April.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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