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Tom Brady throws 6 TD passes In rout of Dolphins C4 RUTLA ERALD I Mil INI II. I) I 'i) i RUTLAND, VERMONT www. rutlandherald. com 75 CENTS MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2007 Web site publishes teacher problems In Vermont, educator license actions listed for public on Internet CASSANDRA TOTALING RUTLAND HERALD Participants (above and below) In the Rutland-area CROP Walk To Stop Hunger leave Grace Congregational Church in Rutland on Sunday. CROP Walk helps those in need Tlw Associated Press MONTPELIER Want to know why former Woodbury Elementary School music teacher David C.

Allen had his teaching license revoked? Which teachers got in trouble for looking at pornography on school computers? When? In Vermont, its all online, right there on the state Department ofEducations Website, under Disciplinary Actions Against Licensed Vermont Educators. Since 2000, the state has posted teacher license suspensions and revocations online, creating a rogues gallery that lists each person by name, school, infraction, punishment and date. Placement is permanent, and while the public posting helps school districts steer clear of troubled See Page site I dont trust anybody now A family and a community scarred by a teachers abuse EDITORS NOTE In this second installment of a or in a stroller, as did 20-month-pld Grace Mulholland, walkers made a physical statement by their presence. At 1 :40 p.m., the walkers streamed oiyt of Rutlands Grace Congregational Church hall into the sunlight, following a pep talk by Tracy Weatherhogg, pastor and coordinator for the Rutland-area CROP Walk. Maps in hand, the walkers followed a qne- or five-mile course.

New this year, Weatherhogg said, were hospitality tents set up along the way. Standing on a beige folding chair in the hall, a gray sweatshirt wrapped around her waist, Weatherhogg gave the group an additional incentive See Page A6: CROP Walk Herald Staff RUTLAND Not having enough to eat or resources to obtain food is a hidden problem. Its hidden because of shame or hidden because the path to a neighborhood food pantry is not always well-publicized. Working to change this, people of all ages took to the streets of Rudand and Manchester on Sunday, raising rrjpney for international hunger-fighting programs and awareness of. hunger throughout the world.

Whether on two feet, such as 12-year-old Abby Blongy of Proctor, or on all fours a black Lab and a golden retriever walked leashed alongside adults Troopers boost effort to find missing schools, the AP examines the devastating impact one abusive educator has had on a family and a community. ByMMTIUMME The Associated Press BERWYN, 111. Theyve learned to watch their older daughter for any sign that somethings wrong. She cuts her long, blond hair and dyes it jet black. And they worry.

Her father picks up a book shes been reading, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and skims it for clues. He notices a highlighted passage: You forget some things, dont you, it reads. Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." Her parents can relate. Theres a lot theyd like to forget, too especially since the day nearly three years ago when their then 15-year-old daughter told them her elementary school band teacher had molested her and other girls.

The teacher, Robert pleaded guilty last By DAPHNE LARKIN Times Argus Staff WATERBURY Vermont State Police have issued a renewed plea for help in solving 26 unsolved cases of missing people, some dating as far back as 1971. Director James Baker said there have been 233 people reported missing since May 2007, of whom 207 have been located. Every week we get reports of missing people, Baker said. Its The cases range from the 13-year-old who gets into a fight with parents and takes off" to people who disappear under suspicious circumstances, such as the case of Brianna Maitland, who vanished in Montgomery after completing her shift at the Black Lantern Inn in 2004. Maitlands car was located about a mile outside the village in front of an abandoned house, but searches have turned up little evidence in her case, according to police.

Maitlands and other stories can be cases more accurately, paying more attention to them. Baker said. That means adding cases previously investigated through local police to the central database. We started monitoring through the Criminal Division every missing person case in the state" and producing monthly reports, Baker said, thereby cleaning up the tracking process. Sixteen profiles of missing people See Page A6: Missing viewed at the Vermont State Police Web site, a database police hope the public will peruse in an effort to assist them.

We cannot stress how important it is for the public to understand that no matter how trivial they might perceive their information to be, it could be the one piece of information that is needed to solve this mystery and locate Brianna, reads the page dedicated to Maitlands case. Starting this past spring, State Police have begun tracking missing person See Page A5: Immunity at issue in secret surveillance things Welsh, Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But that probe has been delayed after the federal government sued Vermont and several other states that were investigating the phone companies alleged actions. The board is expected to soon decide if its investigation will resume.

Several of the phone companies allegedly involved in the National Security Agency program Issued carefully worded denials last year. But recent news reports including a frank interview with Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell in a Texas newspaper last month all but verify that at least some of the companies participated in the program. See Page A6: Immunity protection laws by giving the government access to phone records. Gov. James Douglas, a Republican, said during his weekly press conference Thursday that he opposes any legislative action that would let the phone companies off the hook.

I dont agree with that, Douglas said, when asked about the Senate committee bill. Vermonters are very concerned about the alleged release of their phone records and the issue must be investigated. Allen Gilbert, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, said Thursday that he hoped the Public Service Board could continue with its investigation even if the U.S. Congress grants immunity to the companies. Gilbert, whose organization pushed for an investigation last year, said tlje companies are under a contractual agreement to operate in Vermont and part of that deal was to protect consumers privacy.

This isnt a criminal case, so Im not sure if immunity would help them here, he said. But they allegedly violated their agreement with the state and they could be sanctioned because of that. The Public Service Board launched an investigation into the alleged release of consumer information soon after news reports surfaced in 2006 that many telephone companies gave the federal government access to records as part of a secret surveillance program following the Vermont Press Bureau Federal attempts to make legal President Bushs domestic surveillance program may derail a long-delayed investigation by Vermont into allegations that telecommunication companies broke state law by participating in a similar program. The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee this week unveiled a surveillance bill that includes a provision granting retroactive legal immunity to companies that handed over customer information to the federal government.

That could effectively pull the teeth from the Vermont Public Service Boards one-year-old investigation into allegations that Verizon Vermont and violated state consumer ALBERT MARRO RUTLAND HERALD Emily Dailey presses cider at Saturday's Welsh Harvest Festival at Cenidwen Farm on the campus of Green Mountain College in Poultney. Cl RUTLAND Business Monday TODAY Volume 147 Number 253 4 Sections 281 SOUTHERN VT Manchester strives to be green capital of the state. AARP offers driving lessons. MSEB1 Lottery Numbers State Sen. Edward Flanagan recounts his brain injury.

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