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250 pigs escape; most back, some with HEALTH

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ORANGE, Vt. (AP) — About buy $2,650 San Nicolas
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the past month after they e-mail: rmwjmw@aol.com Women in Difficulties
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day thanks in part to a trail San Nicolas:
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ol' fashioned corralling. Women in Difficulties
Several farm workers and a OTHER
couple of volunteers who Dental Clinic 587 9850
heard about the loose pigs A pig that escaped from a Vermont farm walks along a road in Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
trudged up and down the Orange, Vt, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Urgent Care 586 0448
dirt road hill Thursday trying Associated Press Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
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to drive any pigs back into Women in Difficulties
the Sugar Mountain Farm in fence enclosure was dam- of Thursday the town tallied EMERGENCY
Orange. They chased the aged by vandalism on the $81,955, Eastman said. Police 100
animals into the brush, and night of Aug. 11, allowing "It is a public hazard," she Oranjestad 527 3140
ditches, working togeth- about 50 adult pigs and said of the pigs. Noord 527 3200
er to position themselves 200 piglets to escape. He The pigs also got loose last Sta. Cruz 527 2900
so that they could corral thinks it was the work of a year, she said. San Nicolas 584 5000
the large sows and boars, former employee and said The Vermont Agency of Police Tipline 11141
which frequently got away. he reported it to the police. Agriculture is working with Ambulancia 911
But farmer Walter Jeffries The farm was also robbed the U.S. Department of Ag- Fire Dept. 115
582 2219
Red Cross
said most of his pigs have recently of thousands of riculture Wildlife Services
returned home. dollars in tools, he said. to determine how much TAXI SERVICES
"The pigs have been al- Jeffries said his outdoor time is appropriate for the Taxi Tas 587 5900
lowed and remain to be farm manager then got farmer to recover the ani- Prof. Taxi 588 0035
allowed in the town right of injured and wasn't able to mals before officials take Taxi D.T.S. 587 2300
way so cars are unable to repair the fencing. any action, said agency Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
pass, people can't walk on "So we've been dealing spokesman Scott Water- A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
the road because the pigs with that ever since," he man. Women in Difficulties
chase them," said Town said Thursday, adding that Agriculture Secretary An- TRAVEL INFO
Clerk Angela Eastman on about 99% of the pigs were son Tebbetts told NECN that Aruba Airport 524 2424
Thursday. back and the fence had his agency is concerned American Airlines 582 2700
Jeffries faces tens of thou- been fixed. about public safety as well Avianca 588 0059
sands of dollars in fines from Earlier in the day, Eastman as creating a feral popula- Jet Blue 588 2244
the town for the pigs that said she spotted 16 pigs in tion of pigs, which can be Surinam 582 7896
have been spotted on and the town right of way. A destructive to property.
alongside the town road for town official checks daily, "We want to make sure Women in Difficulties
weeks, creating a nuisance counting and taking pho- travelers don't run into the CRUISES
for drivers and pedestrians, tos of the animals. The fine animals — hurt the animals,
according to the town. is based on the number of or hurt themselves," he told
Jeffries said he believes the pigs in the right-of way. As NECN.q

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