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The Green River meanders southward through three towns before crossing Vermont's border with Massachusetts.
Now, there's an effort under way to unite those towns - Marlboro, Halifax, and Guilford - with other regional partners to take a fresh look at issues like flood resiliency, conservation, and restoration.
For more than 35 years, Windham Child Care Association has worked to support a variety of early-childhood services and the families who depend on them. But a change last year at the state level abruptly eliminated a funding stream that accounted for about 25 percent of the organization's budget.
Despite years of planning and research, it appears that a high-speed fiber optic network isn't coming to Vernon anytime soon. A committee that had been laying the groundwork for a municipally owned fiber line disbanded earlier this month, citing a lack of interest and support among homeowners and businesses.
Windham County sheriff's deputies are now armed with cameras. Sheriff Keith Clark said he has recently begun issuing body cameras to his deputies after a months-long bidding, review, and purchasing process. Only half of the office's 30 cameras have arrived. But Clark said he is eager to put them to use as a tool to boost “public trust” and to improve police work. “It fulfills a lot of needs in this day and age,” Clark said. The Newfane-based sheriff's department,
After several months of review, state regulators have approved the sale of 13 hydroelectric stations on the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers. The Vermont Public Service Board on April 6 OK'd the purchase of TransCanada's hydro dams by Great River Hydro, a subsidiary of Boston-based ArcLight Capital Partners. In finding that the transaction will promote the public good, the board adopted the findings of a hearing officer who said Great River is “financially sound,” “experienced in the industry” and “capable of...
In March 2014, a radiologist spotted a “highly suspicious,” possibly cancerous mass on the kidney of a Brattleboro Memorial Hospital patient. But state inspectors say it took two-and-a-half years for that patient to learn of the problem. By then, the cancer had spread to the patient's lungs, and surgeons had to remove the kidney. New documents show that the state has cited BMH both for the notification error and for initially failing to thoroughly investigate the incident. They are the...
Vermont Natural Resources Board officials are giving Mount Snow an extra year to finish a snow-making upgrade fueled by $30 million in EB-5 foreign investment. The West Lake Water Project's completion-deadline extension to October 2018 is further fallout from Mount Snow's long wait for federal approval of its EB-5 money. Resort administrators still hope to have the project - which will give Mount Snow six times its current snow-making capacity - done before next winter. But that schedule apparently is...
On April 6, in a crowded cafeteria at Vernon Elementary School, there were three hours of debate and discussion about the proposed sale of Vermont Yankee. But for the most part, it all might boil down to one question: Is it too good to be true? Few spoke unequivocally for or against Entergy's plan to sell the shut-down nuclear plant to NorthStar Group Services. Rather, most expressed support for NorthStar's promise to decommission the plant promptly, while also confessing doubts...
