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VPR Newscast: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 12 p.m.

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published November 21, 2013 at 1:04 PM EST

The Shumlin administration says 99 percent of locations in the state of Vermont have access to broadband internet service.

Efforts to bring back passenger rail service to western Vermont are a step closer to reality.

Vermont's Agency of Natural Resources is offering some guidance on the implementation of the state's new recycling law.

The Vermont Public Service Board has approved a temporary, 85-foot cell tower in the village of Putney until a permanent site is found.

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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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Annie Russell

Annie Russell was VPR's Deputy News Director. She came to VPR from NPR's Weekends on All Things Considered and WNYC's On The Media. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School.

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