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Holiday Cheer: Liquor Laws And Safety Enforcement

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Many holiday parties include consumption of alcoholic beverages.

It’s the holidays, a time when friends, families and co-workers unite to celebrate. Quite often with alcohol flowing.

We take a look at some of Vermont’s liquor laws and how they developed with Department of Liquor Control Director of Enforcement Bill Goggins. And we’ll hear how law enforcement agencies around the state work to keep impaired drivers off the highway from Ted Minall, Chief of the Governor's Highway Safety Program and Vermont State Police Sergeant Gary Scott.

Also on the program, Dr. Jay Batra is back at work at the Vermont Department of Mental Health in the position that he left almost a year ago. We’ll hear his plans for opening and running the psychiatric facility that replaces the Vermont State Hospital.

Plus, we visit the 44th Annual Tinmouth Game Supper.

Ric was a producer for Vermont Edition and host of the VPR Cafe.
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