Vermont

New names for #Vermont snow plows 2024, selected by Vermont schoolchildren. Some selections...

Skibidi Scooper
No More Mr. Ice Guy
The Snowy Pl-Owl
Clearopathra
Snoah Kahan
Salt-O-Saurus

https://vtrans.vermont.gov/name-a-plow

It's 10:30 am and my town has crossed the 50% marker for mail-in ballots processed and counted. If you're in #Vermont how is your town doing? Statewide we're at 47% Seems good?

https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/113376541392274112

I am making kid ballots for when I work the polls on Tuesday. Many parents bring their kids when they vote and the kids often get bored and agitated. We have a coloring table set up and some ballots on the important issues of the day.

For many people, there are two people on their ballots running as independents: Me and Bernie Sanders. While I wish more people would run for Justice of the Peace without a party designation, I am okay with my company in this one.

#Vermont #USElection

Hey #Vermont want to see what percentage of your town's mail-in ballots have gotten received and tallied yet? Statewide we're at 28 percent. How does your town measure up?

https://ccn-election-map-2024.netlify.app/

More about this tool made by Ben Cooley at UVM's Center for Community News

https://www.vtcng.com/state_and_world/state_news/as-election-day-approaches-here-s-what-mail-in-voting-looks-like-in-vermont/article_00d3cc10-922b-11ef-8a3e-0fc535fe2726.html

Went to the post office to buy a few postcard stamps and they said they were nearly all out. People had been buying them by the roll to send out Get Out The Vote cards. "One lady bought a thousand! I've never seen someone buy so many stamps." said our postmistress.

Our little state's electoral votes may not matter much in the grand scheme of the general election, but we're all doing our part.

#vermont

#Vermont Civics Alert!

While waiting to see a health care provider, I noticed a few copies of a Voter’s Guide for Vermonters with Disabilities on the table. I was delighted to find a clearly designed, easy to read and understand guide to the voting process (registering, voting, what all the jobs are, your rights as a voter). Good for PWD or anyone who wants this info.

I got a bunch of hard copies delivered to my library. PDF download link here. Pls share widely. #a11y

https://disabilityrightsvt.org/publications/

There are a lot of tiny libraries in Vermont, some of them serve communities so small they don't have a "capital campaigns" option for doing needed improvements. Many aren't accessible. Vermont just announced awards of over $15mil in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money much of which will help our smallest libraries get more accessible.

In one case, they're expanding a library so that it can have a bathroom. Not just a public bathroom, a bathroom.

https://www.westonlibraryexpansion.org/

#vermont #libraries

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