The State Board of Education has named a new Acting
Commissioner; The incoming head of the Vermont Agency of Transportation says
there aren’t going to be many changes after he becomes secretary; The next
priest sex abuse trial against Burlington’s Roman Catholic Diocese is scheduled
to begin in August; The state Agency of Human Services has abandoned a plan to
contract with a Missouri company to provide rides to Medicaid patients;
Vermont’s honey bees have made it through the winter in good form; and
commentator Deborah Luskin considers generating local hydro-power.