Press

Conservation Coverage, Spring 2017

• Preservation Trust of VT. blog.ptvermont.org/exit-4/
• VPR. “Exit 4 Landowner Will Scrap Development Plans and Sell to Conservation Groups”. 
• Seven Days. “Conservation Groups Buy Exit 4 Land Once Slated for Development” .
• Valley News. “Conservation Groups Announce Plan to Protect Scenic Randolph Parcel”. 
• VTDigger. “Randolph Site Development Now Protected”.
• WPTZ. “Exit 4 Land to be Conserved; Used for Farming”.
• Times Argus. “Deal Reached to Protect Farmlant at Vermont Interstate Exit”. 

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A look back where we were 2 years ago:

Act 250 Hearing, 17 July Coverage

• WCAX. “Randolph Development Plans Run into Permitting Concerns”.
• WCAX. “VT Regulators Review Randolph Development Plan”.
• Hongoltz-Hetling, Matt. “Environmental Groups Seek to Block Exit 4 Project“. VT Digger (reprint). 4 August 2015
• Hongoltz-Hetling, Matt. “Farmers, Developers Rumble in Randolph”. Valley News. 18 July 2015.
• Mansfield, Erin. “Environmental Groups Challenge Exit 4 Development Plan”. VT Digger. 17 July 2015.
• Zind, Steve. “Commission Hears More Testimony on Big Exit 4 Development Plan”. Vermont Public Radio. 20 July 2015.
• Zind, Steve. “Opponents Push for Exit 4 Development to be Thrown Out”. Vermont Public Radio. 4 August 2015.
• Zind, Steve. “Exit 4 Developer Must Submit New Plan”. Vermont Public Radio. 2 August 2015.

Editorials/Opinions

• Hall, Kevin. “I89 Beginning of End”. The Herald of Randolph. 23 July 2015.
• Levine, Sandra. “Times Argus Farmland facing threats“. Times Argus. 24 May 2015.
• “Welcome to Exit 4, Vermont“. Valley News, May 31, 2015.
• McElhiney, Diane. “A Nightmare for Exit 4”. VT Digger. 28 July 2015.
• Walters, Camden. “Flawed Thinking on G.M. Center”. The Herald of Randolph. 23 July 2015.
• Walters, Camden. “In Today’s World, Soil is Precious“. The Herald of Randoph. 18 June 2015.
• Wolff, Robert William. “Don’t Spoil Views at Exit 4“. The Herald of Randolph. 19 June 2015.

Articles

• Davis, Mark. “Little Randolph is Divided Over Massive Development Proposal“. Seven Days. 15 July 2015
• Conn, Gina. “Residents, Interests speak out on Randolph Development”.  Times Argus, Barre, VT. 23 May 2015.
• Drysdale, M.D. “Hearings Begin On Sammis Proposal; Environmental Orgs. Voice Opposition”.  The Herald of Randolph, Randolph, VT. 28 May 2015.
• Gregg, John. “Randolph Developer Sammis’ Political Donations are to mostly Republicans, and Shumlin”. 29 May 2015.
• Strzepa, Liz. “Mixed Feelings Over Proposed Randolph Development”. WPTZ News Channel 5. 22 May 2015.
• Wolfe, Rob.  “Fight Over Exit 4 Land Begins”.  Valley News, White River Junction, VT. 23, May 2015.
• Zind, Steve. “Development Off Exit 4 Seen As A Test of Farmland Preservation”. Vermont Public Radio. 22 May 2015.

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