Ice Out

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The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation is asking Vermonters to report when lakes and ponds “ice-out.”

A cinder block has fallen through the ice on Joe’s Pond in West Danville, an official sign of spring in northeastern Vermont.Participants in the Joe’s…