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Newscast: Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 12:04 p.m.

Vermont Public | By Lynne McCrea,

Published August 20, 2013 at 12:20 PM EDT

A Connecticut company wants to develop a new wind project on a Northeast Kingdom ridgeline just south of an existing wind development.

Officials in a Vermont border community say the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has dropped plans for a major expansion of the port of entry from Canada at the northern end of Interstate 91 in Derby Line.

Environmental advocates say blue-green algae has infested large portions of St. Albans Bay.

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Lynne McCrea

Lynne worked for Vermont Public from 2002 to 2022 as a producer/reporter for special news projects.

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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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