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A developer says preliminary environmental studies - including detailed assessments of noise and visual impacts - have shown no “red flags” for the proposed 28-turbine, 96.6-megawatt Stiles Brook Wind Project in Windham County.
But no scientific studies are needed to gauge the level of skepticism some residents feel about the project.
Back on home turf for one final “lunch with the governor” event, Gov. Peter Shumlin got an honorary Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce membership and a chance to defend his six-year record as the state's chief executive. Speaking April 11 at American Legion Post 5 in Brattleboro, the Putney...
As states like Vermont push for more say in nuclear-plant decommissioning, an industry group is pushing back. Rod McCullum, a senior director at the Washington, D.C.-based Nuclear Energy Institute, says the state’s demands for more public input and more financial regulation could have a negative effect on cleanup efforts...
A little over six months after cutting the ribbon on a $10 million expansion project, Landmark College administrators are looking to grow again. The college, which specializes in serving students with learning difficulties, has submitted town permitting documents for construction of a new facilities-operations building and the campus's first athletic field. Landmark President Peter Eden said the school has raised more than $1 million for the athletic facilities, a project that he believes is necessary to keep pace with the...
The Vermont House wants to pump more cash into the state's “working lands.” The fiscal year 2017 budget bill approved March 24 by the House allocates $900,490 for the popular Working Lands grant program. That's a boost of about $189,000 from the allocation that had been proposed by the governor, said Rep. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, who chairs the House Agriculture and Forest Products Committee. For a high-demand program that makes relatively small awards all over the state, any increase in...
Rep. Mike Hebert was no fan of Vermont's new education-governance law when his colleagues approved it last year. Now, the Vernon Republican is questioning the transparency and integrity of the process by which Act 46 is being implemented in Windham Southeast Supervisory Union, which includes his two-town district. Hebert is concerned enough that, on March 23, he submitted a public-records request for all written and electronic communications among representatives of Windham Southeast; the supervisory union's Act 46 Study Committee; the...
While the fate of a marijuana-legalization bill remains unclear in the Statehouse, Windham County’s Democratic leaders have left no doubt about where they stand. The county committee has voted to support legalization and also to join the Vermont Coalition to Regulate Marijuana as the second Democratic committee in the state to join its ranks. County committee Chairman Brandon Batham said he pushed for a vote on marijuana legalization because “on issues like this, Windham County Democrats can’t afford to shy...
It's been the warmest winter on record in Vermont, with mean temperatures five to 10 degrees above normal and snowfall several feet below normal statewide, the National Weather Service reported at a meeting here March 17. Such statistics meant that the gathering of state officials and emergency responders took on a different tone than originally intended. Rather than the usual discussion of ice-jam inundation, talk turned to earlier-than-usual brush-fire risks and possible flooding from heavy rainfall. In spite of the...
