🌱 How could Vermont’s new AI task force reshape local jobs and businesses?

Coffee in hand, Montpelier? We've got the latest town updates for you. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How could Vermont’s new AI task force reshape local jobs and businesses?
• Why Governor Scott blocked Vermont’s proposed Sister State Program
• Montpelier motorcyclist seriously hurt in Route 5A head-on crash

Today's riddle: Why does a cow wear a bell ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 86 and low of 71 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Wednesday: A shower and thunderstorm, temps: high: 76, low: 39.
• Thursday: Mostly sunny and cooler, with a high of 57 and low of 34 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

1. Governor Phil Scott Establishes Vermont AI Economic Task Force (vermont.gov) — From Montpelier, Governor Phil Scott has created a Vermont Artificial Intelligence Economic Task Force to quickly map out how AI will reshape jobs, small businesses, and state services. The group will deliver early recommendations within 90 days, develop toolkits for small employers, and design training for state leaders, and Vermonters from every county are invited to apply to serve.
   

2. Scott vetoes Vermont Sister State Program bill (vermontbiz.com) — Governor Phil Scott, writing from his Montpelier office, has vetoed a bill that would have created a Vermont Sister State Program, arguing it infringes on the governor’s constitutional authority over state-to-state relations. He did sign four other bills into law, including measures on rare diseases, community action agencies, adult protective services, and the use of AI in health and human services. Residents can expect the Legislature to decide whether to revise or challenge the vetoed measure.
   

3. Motorcycles collide in West Burke (newportdispatch.com) — A 22-year-old Montpelier resident was seriously injured in a head-on motorcycle collision on Vermont Route 5A in West Burke on May 16. State police say his bike crossed the center line and struck another rider from Barton, with both men hospitalized but expected to survive.
   

4. The story of Derby Bat and Vermont's baseball legacy (mynbc5.com) — Montpelier’s own Vermont Mountaineers keep Central Vermont’s long baseball tradition alive, connecting today’s summer collegiate games to a little-known manufacturing legacy. A 19th-century Vermont company, Derby and Ball, evolved from farm tools to nationally recognized wooden bats, linking Bellows Falls, Waterbury, Barre, and now Montpelier in a rich, statewide baseball story.
   

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📸 Around Montpelier

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Montpelier

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday May 20

• Basement Teen Center →
  Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main St, Montpelier
  2:00 pm

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Other local events

Wednesday May 20

• Make-Up AP Stats @ 8am
  Montpelier High School Montpelier, VT 05602
  8:00 am
• Drawing on the Archive: Tillie Walden’s Charity & Sylvia
  Vermont Humanities Council - Barre Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, Middlebury, 05753, United States
  4:00 pm

Saturday May 23

• Join the Revolution! Historical Reenactment
  Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, 1 Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday May 19

• After School Art Sessions: K-4th Grade — Camp Meade →
  Camp Meade, 961 US-2, Middlesex
  3:00 pm
• MCCC board meeting.
  Maple Corner Community Center 84 W County Rd, Calais, VT 05648
  6:30 pm

Wednesday May 20

• Make-Up AP Stats @ 8am
  Montpelier High School Montpelier, VT 05602
  8:00 am
• Instrument presentation at BPS
  Crossett Brook Middle School Waterbury, VT 05676
  8:40 am
• Calais Energy
  Maple Corner Community Center, 84 W County Rd, Calais
  12:00 pm
• Drawing on the Archive: Tillie Walden’s Charity & Sylvia
  Vermont Humanities Council - Barre Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, Middlebury, 05753, United States
  4:00 pm
• SJA Girls Varsity Lacrosse @ Harwood →
  Harwood Union Middle and High School, 458 Vermont Rte 100, Moretown
  4:30 pm
• Theater Performance
  Twinfield Union School Plainfield, VT 05667
  6:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Navstar Inc. posted a job opening for Customer Service Agent in Montpelier. Apply here.
• Cardinal Health posted a job opening for Sr. Specialist, Sales Performance Operations Quality Assurance in Montpelier. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Montpelier here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because its horns doesn't work! (Thank you Gary M. for sending it in!)
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