A South Carolina man who moved to Chester last year after he was paroled from a life sentence he was serving for murdering his wife back in 1989 was arrested Friday after bank tellers said he passed a note demanding money at Citizens Bank in Springfield.
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20150714/NEWS02/707149955
Like moths to a flame, Vermont's generous social assistance benefits just keep drawing in the crème de la crème of society! The prison telegraph must be helping to spread the message.
ReplyDeletesome don't know to live on the outside after spending so much time on the inside
ReplyDeleteStick that nonsense in your ear! Based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, Vermont is the SAFEST state in the country, with a violent crime rate of just 115 incidents per 100,000 residents. The Youth Incarceration Rate per 100,000 Inhabitants is only 53, and Property Crimes per Capita is a minuscule 0.02215%.
ReplyDeleteAs in other safe states, Vermont’s relatively well-educated population may have contributed to its low crime rates. Nearly 36% of adults had attained at least a bachelor’s degree as of last year, and 91.5% had completed at least high school, both among the highest rates nationwide.
So save all "the prison is destroying us" garbage. Forget the "social assistance benefits" brings in rabble" nonsense. You don't have a leg to stand on. You must be one of 8.5% without that high school diploma.
Glad to have you in town, 1:40!!
DeleteVermont in general may be a "safe" state, but the misery index for Springfield is a different story.
Delete* Arguably the highest property taxes in the state.
* Home values continue to fall as seniors endure their equity dissolving.
* Good paying, skilled jobs have largely left town due to inability to sustain and attract high caliber employees.
* Incubator spaces and industrial properties have zero demand due to business climate.
* A development authority that has only serves to line its board member's pockets with tens of thousands in grant monies.
* SHS continues to have the highest dropout rate in the state as well as students on free meal programs.
* The town is in the throes of a horrific heroin epidemic.
* Our health care system is effectively insolvent due to the flood uninsured addicts.
* Uninsured and Medicare patients preclude private practice for heath care professionals.
* Overdose deaths are the leading cause of death in young adults.
* Our Main Street is a collection of vacant store fronts, again due to business climate.
* Dilapidated, abandoned homes rot year after year spreading unchecked like a cancer.
* Drug related shootings exceed the rest of the state combined!
Why would anyone with an education and viable career choose to move here and raise a family?
7:15, everything you list can be fixed.
Delete1. Nobody owns a second home in Springfield unless they find it a light burden. My "second home" is taxed at twice the rate of my Springfield home. Enron felon Jeffery Skilling's McMansion in Norwich was taxed at a laughably low cost. If we based our property taxes on income tax and taxed second home owners for their possession of a bauble in Springfield, our own property taxes could be a lot lower. Let me know if you'd like to do something about this.
2. Home values will rise as more people find Springfield an attractive place to live. 41% of our present population has moved here since 2005. Why did they? We simply don't know. 2400 of them registered to vote, a strong indication that they are citizens interested in making and keeping this a good town. If you're interested in getting them involved, let me know.
3. High-paying jobs depend on having employers who pay high wages. We attract them not by bribing them with tax deferments and cuts, but by offering the sort of infrastructure they need as employers and heads of families. If you want to make that happen, contact me.
4. Nobody's attracting to town the entrepreneurs that would use incubator spaces, and we have not yet made a serious attempt to create the facilities they look for. If you want to make that happen, contact me.
5. You're off the mark in your characterization of the development authority. Would you like to meet some of the people on it and look at what they're doing?
6. While the high school dropout rate is 6.99% (more than double the state average of 2.9%), the on-time completion rate for the whole 12 years of 87.5%, on a par with the state average of 87.46%. If you'd like to reduce the high school dropout rate, contact me.
7. "Horrific" is not the right term for the heroin problem. If you want horrific, go to some place like Hoboken. The most effective approach to it is not being tried yet. If you'd like to try it, contact me.
8 and 9. Our health care system's problem is different from your description. For one thing, the town could save half a million with coverage under a single payer system. If you want more details and want to change it for the better, contact me.
10. I'm unaware of any young adults in Springfield dying from overdoses. Also, the town population is far too small to have a "leading cause of death" among our young people. In Vermont, it's likely the leading cause is motor vehicle accidents.
11. I agree, but we can radically transform downtown to make it a jewel. If you'd like to transform it (at the very high probability of angering a lot of the building owners), contact me.
12. The town's already starting to move on the eyesore homes. If you'd like to have them do even better, contact me.
13. That might be true (I doubt it), but do you really want to take on the NRA? If you do, contact me.
Anonymous 7:25am -- I appreciate very much the distinction you've made between Springfield and state statistics. I agree that Springfield is far worse off than the rest of the state. Makes me so very sad and I feel paralyzed, as it is unclear what to do to help.
ReplyDelete7:25's comments would be even better if they were true!
DeleteSpringfield does NOT have the highest property tax in Vermont.
Springfield does NOT have the highest dropout rate in Vermont.
Springfield is NOT the only town in the state with a heroin problem
Springfield does NOT have more drug related shootings than the rest of the state combined.
His claim that Springfield's development authority only serves to line its board member's pockets with tens of thousands in grant monies with is his OPINION, certainly not FACTUAL.
If 11:49 is "paralyzed" and "unclear what to do to help," they can start out by accentuating the positives in this town instead of consistently dwelling on the negative (and the false).
Happy Springfielder, thank you speaking up!
If HCRS leadership was more focused on Springfield rather than California and paying the former CEO $650000, maybe there would be better success treating people with addictions. They cant get enough addiction counselors because of low pay.
ReplyDeleteWhat does addiction have to do with this story about a bank robbery?
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