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2:33 Voz 2 JJR News Now, Thursday morning. Good morning, I'm Mike Cameron. An 18-year-old is pleading not guilty of stabbing outside Market 32 in Rutland earlier this week. Police say Ryan Doan confessed to the crime. He's being held without bail. It happened just before 5 a.m. on Tuesday. City police said the victim went to the Cumberland Farms gas station, South Main Street, for help. An employee there reported the incident to police. Doan said he acted in self-defense and he is being charged with attempted second-degree homicide. Rutland's blighted property is back in the news, about to become a thing of the past, perhaps. It may be recalled that in 2013, the Board of Aldermen voted to make owners of vacant properties register them with the city and maintain them to the satisfaction of the city building inspector. This week, the full board of aldermen adopted changes to the law, that's what they're requesting, that the new city attorney says would make it actually work if approved, according to the Rutland Herald, online today. Tick bites on the rise in the state of Vermont. Embedded ticks under the skin as well. Hospital ER clinic visits are up.

3:58 Lyme disease cases rising in the Green Mountain State. Infections are primarily spread by the black-legged tick, also known as a deer tick. Prevention of bites and embedding include using bug sprays containing DEET, D-E-E-T, or oil of lemon eucalyptus. Long pants tucked into socks when walking in wooded area area suspected of tick activity or grassy areas known to hold ticks is the order of the day these days. That's the look at news up to the moment here at JJR. I'm Mike Cameron.

4:41 Voz 3 Progressive presents the Sports Flash on 98.1 JJR. I'm John Thayer. PGA Tour is at the penultimate event of the regular season they were in detroit the rocket classic is underway with round number one today the new england patriots are just two weeks away from their pre-season opener as they're set to host the indianapolis colts in pre-season game number one august 13th i'm john thayer with the sports flash presented by progressive on 98.1 jjr all right thank you john and in the forecast

5:14 Voz 1 We've got rain early today, then remaining cloudy this afternoon. Shower is still possible. High gets up around 74. Partly cloudy tonight and 59 as we get into Friday. Looks like all this stuff gets out of here. We've got cloudy skies early, then a mix of sun and clouds later in the day. We get up to about 78. 63 for most everybody around the region.

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25:42 the shape of you 98.1 jjr with tom moore in the morning 7 24 and rain falling around the region this morning well it's time to move over unicorns and dinosaurs gen alpha's favorite animal may actually be and this is the way uh some americans say it the axolotl a rare salamander known for its permanent smile and feathery gills kids are obsessed with them and they're showing up everywhere We're now from stuffed animals and backpacks to Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite games. They got them in there. What's funny is that many parents had never even heard of an axolotl until their kids started spelling the word with ease and asking for axolotl-themed toys and birthday parties. Here we go. It's native to Mexico, by the way, the real animal, and are famous for their ability to regenerate body parts, including parts of their hearts and brains. That's amazing. But despite being toy store superstars, these axolotls are critically endangered in the wild due to pollution and habitat loss. Conservationists hope that this newfound fascination with them might just help inspire the next generation to protect them. Then we'll have to see how that works out. But I had never heard of them, but apparently it's a big deal now. now. So get ready for it, parents. If you've got little kids before you know it, you're going to have to get an axolotl birthday cake by the sounds of things. 98.1 JJR.

36:14 28.1 JJR with Tom Moore in the morning, 7.35 on a rainy Thursday morning. That rain's going to continue and be steady throughout the morning, and it sure is. It's a pretty good rain coming down, at least down here at the studios. Showers continuing this afternoon, getting out of here by 5 o'clock or so, with a high up around 75, 100% chance of rain at least into the mid-afternoon. Some clouds, 59 overnight tonight, and then cloudy early with partial sunshine expected. expected coming later in the afternoon for friday high gets up around 78 partly cloudy 59 for friday night and as we get to saturday partly to mostly cloudy so mix of sun and clouds which is what i take out of that and it gets a bit warmer the high on saturday up to about 82 now temperatures around the region right now our warm spots are middlebury vermont manchester to the south at 64 we've got But rain falling throughout the area. And we got 61 in Woodstock, Rutland, and up in Tynmouth, Vermont as well. So a wet start to the day, no doubt about it. Bring that raincoat and umbrella. You're going to need them for the next few hours.

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44:57 8.1 JJR. Well, it is 744 on this Thursday morning. We're getting closer to the weekend, aren't we? Well, you know, a lot of people this month and I think through September, it's big wedding months, right? Well, we all know wedding planning is incredibly stressful. People get cold feet, budgets blow up, families fight, and things happen where you say, I don't know. This is not a good idea. I don't want to go through with this. One woman in Utah just took getting out of a wedding to a terrifying new level. I read this story yesterday, I saw it yesterday, but I said, I'm not going to talk about that. But then I decided, I think I will. Police say what she did, she was like, well, let's see, how do I get out of this? I didn't get, I guess she lied to her family because she never even got a marriage license and lied to her entire family about that. So what do you do? Police said she actually set her church on fire one day before she was supposed to walk down the aisle in that church. That's it. I mean, if you're desperate and you don't know what to do and how to get out of it, what do you do? Well, listen, if there's no church, there can't be a wedding, right? That's what she thought anyway until she got arrested. 98.1 JJR.

49:20 98.1 JJR, 748 with Tom Moore. Well, listen, we do have a couple of birthdays to talk about this morning. That's right. We have Scott Megan, who is celebrating a birthday, Scott out of Rutland, and from Mineville, New York, Joanne Perry celebrating a birthday as well today. So we want to shout out to the both of you. I hope somebody treats you real nice on your special day.

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