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If you're working on economic development in southern Vermont, Santina Leporati wants to know about it.
In fact, a big part of her job as Southern Vermont Economy Project manager is figuring out who's doing what to boost the economic well-being of Windham and Bennington counties. She's also expected to coordinate those efforts, and to help push them along via training sessions.
Mount Snow can't access $52 million in foreign investment money because of an ongoing federal review of Vermont's EB-5 Regional Center, a resort executive claims. Timothy Boyd, president and chief executive officer of Mount Snow parent company Peak Resorts, said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' questions about the state's...
As the federal government works to come up with new rules for decommissioning nuclear plants like Vermont Yankee, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch can distill his hopes into two words. “We're trying to say over and over again - 'community involvement, community involvement, community involvement,'” said Welch, D-Vt. Welch doesn't...
Think of it as a green-building advocate's version of “touch a truck.” Brattleboro-based Sustainable Energy Outreach Network is hosting its first “sustainable home tour” on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It features seven specially outfitted, environmentally friendly houses in Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Putney, and Saxtons River. The idea is to let the public get up close and personal with new and renovated homes that have been designated as “high performance.” Energy efficiency plays a big role...
Moments before Elsie Smith helped to break ground for a $2.5 million building project in Brattleboro, a hard-hatted man on stilts loomed over the crowd. “It is starting to look like a real circus around here, don't you think?” Smith asked. It was an appropriate vibe for the Sept. 29 event. Smith and her sister, Serenity Smith Forchion, were celebrating the pending creation of a new home for New England Center for Circus Arts, the school they founded here more...
Vermont Yankee administrators waited two years for the state's permission to build a new storage facility for nuclear waste at the defunct Vernon plant. When they finally received that permit in late June, they didn't waste any time getting started. Entergy administrators last week said the construction of a spent fuel storage facility is well under way, with a few dozen contracted workers having recently installed a massive generator that will provide emergency power to the complex. Construction will continue...
Not long after announcing their intent to shut down Vermont Yankee, Entergy executives agreed to hand over $10 million to boost economic development in Windham County and ease the pain of the nuclear plant's closure. At this point, the state has distributed or committed about half of what Entergy will pay to support what's been dubbed the Windham County Economic Development Program. And officials say they're seeing “a very positive impact” in spite of the program's slow start. A new...
Entergy is selling its Brattleboro properties, including a former office complex and training center that had supported the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. On one hand, it's yet another sign of the end of the Vermont Yankee era. The structures were vacated this past spring, more than a year after the Vernon plant ceased producing power. On the other hand, local officials view the sale as a chance to spur economic development. In all, more than 66,000 square feet of industrial...
