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<title>Burlington Board of Health holds F-35 hearing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 28, 2012) The F-35, the Air Force&apos;s new fighter jet, may be coming to the Burlington airport. People are worried about noise from the plane, but there&apos;s also another concern: public health. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20970/20121128/burlington-board-of-health-holds-f-35-hearing">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>Vermont Air National Guard defends F-35s</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 15, 2012) The plan to base a new fleet of F-35 fighter jets at Burlington International Airport has generated hot debate in surrounding communities. If the new jets do bed down at the airport, they will run training flights over the Adirondacks and Watertown. The F-35 is louder than the F-16s that currently fly in and out of Burlington.The public comment period about the proposed plan has just ended. Now, the Vermont Air National Guard is weighing in. Sarah Harris has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19983/20120615/vermont-air-national-guard-defends-f-35s">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>South Burlington City Council votes against F-35s</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 23, 2012) Host intro: The Vermont Air National Guard is considering whether to make Burlington International Airport home to a fleet of new F-35 fighter jets. Communities around the airport debated the jets’ presence at a public hearing last week. The Environmental Impact statement put out by the Air Force says that the new jets will bring higher noise levels to neighborhoods surrounding the airport. On Monday night, South Burlington’s City Council voted  4 – 1 to oppose the plan. Sarah Harris has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19867/20120523/south-burlington-city-council-votes-against-f-35s">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>VT Guard plans F-35 training over Adirondacks, Watertown</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 18, 2012) The Vermont Air National Guard is proposing to start training flights over the Adirondacks and Watertown area with F-35 jets. The big, loud planes would replace the smaller, quieter F-16s the National Guard is using now —but not until at least 2015. The Guard is accepting public comments on the plan until June 1. It&apos;s held public hearings on the proposal in the Burlington area, and last night in Watertown. Joanna Richards reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19847/20120518/vt-guard-plans-f-35-training-over-adirondacks-watertown">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>New construction on Drum will serve Guard, Reserves</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 6, 2011) Senators Schumer and Gillibrand announced last week $46.4 million in funding for new construction at Fort Drum. The new facilities will help National Guard and Reserve troops with their training. Joanna Richards has the story. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18537/20111006/new-construction-on-drum-will-serve-guard-reserves">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Aid reaches last Vermont towns</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 1, 2011) Aid reached one of the last isolated towns in Vermont yesterday morning.A Vermont National Guard vehicle with water was the first in to the village of Wardsboro.The small town in the southern Green Mountains had been isolated since flooding struck on Sunday. The Guard has been using trucks and choppers where necessary to get supplies to stranded residents. Aid reached 13 other towns Tuesday night.A convoy of about 30 trucks finally made it through to Killington Mt. yesterday morning.Rob Mitchell, state editor for the Rutland Herald, says the supply effort really ramped up yesterday, just as isolated towns were beginning to run out of essential supplies and medicines.He spoke with Nora Flaherty on All Before 5 yesterday: [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18322/20110901/aid-reaches-last-vermont-towns">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Encouraging words for Saranac Lake veterans&apos; center</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 30, 2010) The Department of Defense is focusing more attention on post traumatic stress disorder, estimating that over 300,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD. Thousands of them are &quot;civilian soldiers&quot; — members of the Army Reserves and National Guard.The Department of Veterans Affairs says combat vets are more likely to commit crimes or suffer effects of psychological trauma. Military officials are actively looking for new ways to help them heal and rejoin civilian life.A group in Saranac Lake hopes Patriot Hills, a new vets&apos; center proposed for the village, will be a good fit. This week, they got some encouraging words from the Army national Guard&apos;s medical commander. Martha Foley has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15898/20100630/encouraging-words-for-saranac-lake-veterans-apos-center">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Glens Falls Armory up for auction, again</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 5, 2010) The Glens Falls Armory goes back on the auction block next month. The 115-year-old stone building—complete with turret—has been up for auction twice since the National Guard moved to new quarters last summer. The state’s Office of General Services owns the Armory and has lowered the minimum bid for the building. No one entered a bid at 500,000 dollars in October or 350,000 during the second auction. Now, department spokesperson Heather Groll tells Jonathan Brown that bidding will start at 200,000 dollars. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15328/20100305/glens-falls-armory-up-for-auction-again">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Maj. Gen. Taluto from Washington County drops bid to lead Army National Guard</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 29, 2010) A North Country officer chosen by the White House to head the Army National Guard has withdrawn his name from consideration.  Major General Joseph Taluto, who lives in Fort Ann, in Washington County, was chosen by President Obama to lead the Guard nationwide back in May of 2009.  But his nomination was held up by the controversy surrounding the murder of two of his officers during a deployment to Iraq in 2005. In a statement issued yesterday, Taluto said that the confirmation process had become a “distraction.”  He also announced that he will retire as head of New York state’s national guard, ending a 44-year career.  Brian Mann’s report on Taluto’s nomination first aired last May. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15155/20100129/maj-gen-taluto-from-washington-county-drops-bid-to-lead-army-national-guard">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A Civil War soldier lost at Antietam, returned to New York</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 18, 2009) Yesterday marked the 147th anniversary of the Civil War battle at Antietam in Maryland.  It was the single bloodiest day in US history, with more than 20,000 men killed or wounded. Three hundred New Yorkers are still unaccounted for from that battle, their remains lost in the farm fields and the woods. But last summer, a hiker in an area known as the Corn Field discovered the remains of a soldier.  His buttons and his belt identified him as a volunteer from New York. That soldier was finally laid to rest yesterday at Saratoga National Cemetery.  In just a moment, we’ll hear from the historian who arranged the long-delayed funeral. First, here’s Brian Mann’s audio portrait of the ceremony.  It begins with the rumble of a motorcycle honor guard, which accompanied the soldier on his final journey from Maryland. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14375/20090918/a-civil-war-soldier-lost-at-antietam-returned-to-new-york">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Chaplain shortage hits North Country Guard</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 8, 2009) The National Guard has mostly solved its recruiting problem.  Most units around the country are at full strength, after being hit hard by the pressures of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  But Guard units are still searching desperately for clergy willing to serve as military chaplains.  As Brian Mann reports, more than 250 chaplain posts are unfilled nationwide. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14301/20090908/chaplain-shortage-hits-north-country-guard">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>North Country priest serves double duty in New York&apos;s Air National Guard</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 7, 2009) Yesterday we reported that New York’s National Guard is struggling to hire enough clergy to serve as part-time chaplains. The problem reflects an aging clergy and also a growing shortage of priests across the North Country – and across New York state.  Brian Mann spoke with Father Douglas Decker.  He’s the priest at St. Cecilia’s in the Jefferson County town of Adams. He also serves with New York’s Air National Guard. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14121/20090807/north-country-priest-serves-double-duty-in-new-york-apos-s-air-national-guard">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A double homicide in Iraq slows the rise of New York top general to national post</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 29, 2009) The top soldier in New York state is facing new questions and new scrutiny following his nomination by President Obama to head the Army National Guard. Major General Joseph Taluto, who lives in Fort Ann in Washington County, had been expected to win easy confirmation by the U.S. Senate.  But now the widow of one of his officers killed in Iraq says General Taluto mishandled discipline and morale during a deployment in 2005.  Brian Mann reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13637/20090529/a-double-homicide-in-iraq-slows-the-rise-of-new-york-top-general-to-national-post">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Facing rising soldier suicide rate, vet groups call for more mental health help</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 9, 2009) Last week, the U.S. Army announced 2008 saw the highest soldier suicide rate on record.  Now, the news is even worse.  The Army believes 24 more soldiers committed suicide just last month, six times the number from January 2008.  One Army official told CNN, &quot;this is terrifying, we do not know what’s going on.&quot; Inside the Army and out, experts agree back-to-back deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are taking a devastating toll on mental health among soldiers.  The Army has been trying to catch up on treating post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.  Tom Tarantino says it&apos;s still not enough.  Tarantino is an Iraq veteran and is a policy associate for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.  The group was lobbying Capitol Hill last week for more mental health care for veterans.  Tarantino told David Sommerstein there is still a stubborn stigma among soldiers attached with seeking help. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12944/20090209/facing-rising-soldier-suicide-rate-vet-groups-call-for-more-mental-health-help">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>North Country national guard troops training in Thailand</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 2, 2009) Last week, about 30 New York National Guard soldiers from armories in the North Country left for a training mission in Thailand. The troops will spend three weeks training with the Thai Army and Royal Thai Marines. Jacob Resneck caught up with some of the soldiers at the armory in Saranac Lake just hours before they left and has our story. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12899/20090202/north-country-national-guard-troops-training-in-thailand">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Paterson says Iraq improving, Afghanistan more unstable</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 24, 2008) Governor David Paterson is on the last leg of a pre-holiday trip to visit soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Paterson and the two Congressmen who accompanied him say that, while Iraq is looking up, the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. Karen DeWitt reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12676/20081224/paterson-says-iraq-improving-afghanistan-more-unstable">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Soldiers home from Afghanistan, job done and new challenges ahead</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 3, 2008) More than a hundred soldiers with New York&apos;s National Guard came home to the North Country yesterday, arriving in buses at armories in Gloversville and Morrisonville. The homecoming follows a year-long deployment in Afghanistan.  The men served in the southern region of the war-torn country, at a time when fighting there was intensifying.  As Brian Mann reports, for many of these soldiers this was a second or even a third deployment. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/12195/20081003/soldiers-home-from-afghanistan-job-done-and-new-challenges-ahead">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Anti-war group kicks off national tour in Watertown</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Aug 1, 2008) An anti-war group is kicking off a national tour of Army bases this weekend in Watertown. Concerts tomorrow and a Sunday barbecue are the main events, but organizers say this tour is meant to help soldiers navigate the federal government&apos;s health care system. Members of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War say they&apos;re starting their tour of U.S. Army bases near Fort Drum because it&apos;s home to the 10th Mountain Division, the most deployed unit in the U.S. Army. Kristofer Goldsmith is one of the organizers of this weekend&apos;s events. He was a sergeant in the 3rd Infantry Division. After his tour of duty in Iraq he joined the anti-war group. He spoke with Jonathan Brown about the &quot;State of the Union&quot; base tour. Goldsmith says the name reflects the Iraq War&apos;s stature, particularly among soldiers, as the biggest problem with the state of the union. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11811/20080801/anti-war-group-kicks-off-national-tour-in-watertown">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Saranac Lake National Guard armory considered for closure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 16, 2008) A New York National Guard spokesman says a review is underway to determine whether the armory in Saranac Lake should close.  The facility employs three people and supports roughly twenty soldiers.  Brian Mann reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11429/20080516/saranac-lake-national-guard-armory-considered-for-closure">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>After Iraq, National Guard soldier loses custody of son</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 14, 2008) Advocates for military families say a growing number of soldiers are losing custody of their children, not because they&apos;re bad parents but because they&apos;ve been deployed overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan.  A bill signed by President Bush last month strengthens protections for service-members and their families.  But as Brian Mann reports, legal experts say some military moms and dads are still vulnerable. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/10835/20080214/after-iraq-national-guard-soldier-loses-custody-of-son">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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