{"id":887178,"date":"2026-10-19T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887178\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:02:10","slug":"bears-spotted-police-ask-public-to-avoid-downtown-middlebury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887178\/","title":{"rendered":"BEARS SPOTTED: Police ask public to avoid downtown Middlebury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; The Middlebury Police Department and the Vermont Fish and Game are working together regarding bears in a tree at the intersection of Main Street and North Pleasant Street. The bears were first spotted in the tree on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">These videos and images were shared with WCAX from people in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Middlebury Police Department and Vermont Fish and Game are asking that the public to give the bears lots of space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say these are wild animals that do not want to interact with people and will tend to stay in a tree longer if people are gathering in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The departments said they want the bears to feel safe to come down from the tree on their own.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bears in a tree at the intersection of Main Street and North Pleasant Street in Middlebury.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/YSDQTEKUWND3LLR4P4UKIT6NEA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Bears in a tree at the intersection of Main Street and North Pleasant Street in Middlebury.(WCAX)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; The Middlebury Police Department and the Vermont Fish and Game are working together regarding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-887178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}