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Newscast: Thursday, August 22, 2013, 12:04 p.m.

Vermont Public | By Lynne McCrea,

Published August 22, 2013 at 12:36 PM EDT

Vermont Gas Systems says it has cleared a key milestone in the development of a proposed natural gas pipeline through Addison County.

A state commission is touring Vermont to get the public’s input on lakeshore protection and development issues, and it meets tonight near Lake Bomoseen.

Vermont State Police explosives experts are working to determine if a hand grenade found in the drive-thru lane of a Morrisville restaurant was real or a novelty item.

Senator Patrick Leahy and officials at Norwich University plan to talk today about a contract to develop software for helping combat cyber warfare.

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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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