Vermont Police Identify Victim in Pownal Stabbing

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POWNAL, Vt. —  State Police are investigating a fatal stabbing in Pownal that occurred on Tuesday. 
 
The victim was identified as Casey Gras, 36, of Bennington. 
 
An autopsy at the Chief Medical Examiner's Office in Burlington on Wednesday determined the cause of death was multiple stab wounds of the abdomen and chest, and the manner of death is a homicide.
 
The investigation began at about 3 p.m. when police received a report of an altercation on Chickadee Drive in the Pownal Estates mobile home park. Responding troopers located an adult man deceased at the scene.
 
The State Police's Crime Scene Search Team is processing the scene where the stabbing occurred. Police have made no arrests.
 
Investigators encourage anyone who could assist in the case call the Shaftsbury barracks at 802-442-5421 or provide their information anonymously online here.
 
VSP will continue to provide updates as the case proceeds.

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Phoebe Jordan Cast Historic Vote 104 Years Ago

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

The ballot box that Phoebe Jordan cast her ballot in is still used for every New Ashford election (with an iPad backup).
NEW ASHFORD, Mass. — Phoebe Jordan awoke in the wee hours 104 years ago, lit a lantern and set out on the 2 1/2-mile walk down the dirt road from her farm to the schoolhouse to vote. 
 
Did she know she was walking into history? Possibly. She was politically astute and was participating in something of an electoral stunt to splash New Ashford across the national news for being first in the nation to record results in the 1920 presidential election. 
 
Jordan, then 56, would become the first person to vote for president that year. Oddly, her title as the first woman to cast a vote wouldn't be mentioned for another four. 
 
Three days before this latest presidential election, Jordan's place in history was etched in stone — literally. 
 
More than three dozen family and community members made their way to the steep New Ashford Cemetery on Saturday to see the new inscription on her marble gravestone: 
 
"Phoebe Sarah Jordan ... first woman to vote in the United States, November 2, 1920." 
 
Ernest Jordan, whose grandfather Arthur was Phoebe's brother, gave a hearty welcome to the gathering and the youngest in the group — six generations removed from Phoebe — helped to pull off an American flag unveiling the inscription. Then everyone headed to the 1792 schoolhouse where Phoebe cast her vote in the ballot box that's still in use and to Town Hall for cookies made from Phoebe's recipe book. 
 
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