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The town of Rockingham has notched a major victory in its years-long tax battle with energy giant TransCanada.
The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that TransCanada's Bellows Falls hydroelectric station should be valued at $127.4 million, just under the $130 million appraisal advocated by the town and set by a lower-court judge.
A Brattleboro landlord will pay $20,000 to settle the state's claims that he filed false documents relating to lead-paint abatement at two High Street rental properties. The state attorney general's office had alleged that Robert Immler engaged in “unfair and deceptive acts and practices” by inaccurately asserting that his...
Tony Hecht lost two valuable guitars, one of which was a custom-built birthday present. Brian Whitehouse is missing an iPad and a weed trimmer. And they're not the only Marlboro residents to have had valuables swiped during a recent string of burglaries. Thieves have pilfered musical instruments, electronics, jewelry,
The Brattleboro Retreat has changed its admission and discharge practices after a May incident in which a patient committed suicide within 24 hours of leaving the psychiatric facility. The suicide prompted a state probe in which investigators identified two regulatory violations: Officials say Retreat staff members failed to inform a guardian and a caseworker of the patient's impending discharge, and they also failed to properly assess the patient's discharge plan. But even before the state's investigation was conducted in July,
Christina Moore's resume doesn't lack for variety: She's spent time on a research boat in Alaska, worked on communications networks in Iraq, and assisted with Hurricane Sandy recovery in New York. But there are two common threads - technological expertise and emergency response - that run through the Halifax resident's life and career. The devastating floods of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 led Moore to form Storm Petrel LLC, which has woven those two threads into a new software package...
Vermont Yankee administrators say they're getting a stubborn groundwater-intrusion problem under control, and they're no longer actively pursuing a proposal to discharge tainted water into the Connecticut River. While liquid continues to seep into the shut-down nuclear plant's turbine building, that is happening at a greatly reduced rate, spokesman Marty Cohn said. So there is no current need to consider discharging the water, Cohn said. In fact, he said Vermont Yankee is cutting back on tanker-truck shipments that had been...
Mount Snow's parent company is proposing a $20 million stock sale to help relieve the pressure of continued delays in the Dover resort's EB-5 foreign investment program. Missouri-based Peak Resorts last week announced the financial maneuver, which is subject to shareholder approval in October. Administrators said they need more working capital due to cash constraints, and they cited two factors behind the decision: An unseasonably warm winter in 2015-16 cut deep into the ski company's revenues, and the delayed release...
Voters in four Windham Southeast Supervisory Union towns finally have an official date - Nov. 8 - when they'll consider merging their school districts. On the same day, those voters in Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney also will be deciding whether to allow Vernon out of a regional high school union. Though the matters are related, the plan to present two complex educational questions simultaneously is generating some concern. Town clerks are worried about an increased workload during an already...
