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A warm, unseasonable winter has forced an undisclosed number of layoffs at Mount Snow ski resort.
But resort administrators expect to hire back those employees soon. And they say the furloughs aren't related to a $52 million cash crunch in the resort's EB-5 foreign investor program - a problem that has slowed new development at Mount Snow.
More than two decades after John Grega's wife was killed in a Dover condominium - and more than a year after Grega died in a car crash - the state of Vermont will pay $1.55 million to settle claims that he had been wrongfully convicted of murder. The settlement...
On Tuesday morning, a big part of Vermont Yankee's footprint vanished. That's because the shut-down nuclear plant's 10-mile emergency planning zone, which touches 18 towns in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, expired due to a license change approved last year by federal regulators. The EPZ's demise means there will...
Though some are worried that Entergy could run out of cash before cleaning up Vermont Yankee, the company is projecting a significant - and growing - surplus at the end of its obligations in Vernon. Entergy's latest Nuclear Regulatory Commission filing shows $190.6 million left in the plant's decommissioning trust fund at the end of Vermont Yankee's decommissioning in 2075. That's $9.3 million more than the surplus the company estimated a year ago. “What's being borne out now ... is...
Just as complicated Act 46 merger talks begin in earnest, three key administrators are leaving Windham Central Supervisory Union. In addition to the previously announced, pending departure of Superintendent Steven John, the union also is losing Chief Financial Officer Victor “Bud” DeBonis and Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School Principal Dorinne Dorfman at the end of this fiscal year. John is retiring after 46 years in education, while DeBonis and Dorfman are taking new positions in northern Vermont.
At the first meeting of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VNDCAP) in 2014, there was lots of talk about the need for openness and transparency. Lately, though, a dispute has arisen about how far the panel has to go to meet those goals. Some members have proposed limiting press and public use of a call-in feature for those who cannot attend meetings in person. Panel Chairwoman Kate O'Connor is pushing back against such changes. After an April 12...
Entergy wants additional disposal options for Vermont Yankee's contaminated water, but federal regulators say they don't yet know enough about the liquid to approve that request. Citing “uncertainty in the concentration of radionuclides in the water,” the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding off on allowing Entergy to ship Vermont Yankee water to a facility in Idaho. “We're doing our due diligence to understand the radioactivity levels that would be involved with the shipments,” NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said. Vermont Yankee...
Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark took an extended, public drubbing for his now-defunct Liberty Mill Justice Center proposal, and he admits the experience left him “bloodied a little bit.” But Clark is unbowed in his quest for new programs that he believes could change Vermont's criminal justice system and bolster local law enforcement. In fact, he insists that nearly all aspects of the Liberty Mill plan - aside from the controversial detention center - remain feasible in the not-so-distant future.
