VERMONT — A suite of Efficiency Vermont flood recovery rebates are now available for households and businesses impacted by Vermont’s 2024 summer floods. The rebates for heating systems, weatherization and appliances have been extended to households and businesses impacted by this year’s flooding with up to $29,500 available to Vermont[Read More…]
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Copley Hospital Support Staff Unionize
MORRISVILLE – Support staff at Copley Hospital voted to unionize Thursday, Nov. 14. The formation, which came through a decisive 68-44 vote, joins together the hospital’s nearly 150 staff with its almost 100 nurses in the regional United Nurses and Allied Professionals union. “I wanted to form a union to[Read More…]
PUC Signs off on Consolidated Communications Sale
VERMONT – Consolidated Communications has received the green light from the Vermont Public Utility Commission to proceed with its proposed sale to a private investment company. The $3.1 billion sale to affiliates of Searchlight Capital Partners and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation still needs approval from federal regulators, but company[Read More…]
Harple to Prioritize Rural Needs, Education
GLOVER – Leanne Harple of Glover, mother, teacher and traveled Vermonter, became one of only two democrats elected to the Vermont House of Representatives from the Northeast Kingdom on November 5. She’ll take her seat representing Albany, Craftsbury, Glover and Greensboro for the Orleans-4 House District in January. Harple says[Read More…]
Less Interruptions at Meeting, More Grants
GREENSBORO – The Wednesday evening select board meeting, November 13, had a packed agenda, with various grant projects dominating the discussion. In contrast to last month’s meeting, there were far less interruptions after the board implemented new basic parliamentary rules of procedure. The meeting began with the announcement of a[Read More…]
Public Wi-Fi, FEMA Flood Funding Approved
WOODBURY – First up at the November 11 regular meeting of the Woodbury Select Board was Information Technology Manager Skip Marchesani, who talked about plans for upgrading network infrastructure and adding public Wi-Fi access in the area surrounding the town hall, and extending into the park area across Vt. Rte.[Read More…]
RuralEdge Awarded $175,000 Tax Incentive for Town Hall Housing Project
GREENSBORO – RuralEdge has been awarded $175,000 in state tax credits to support important code and façade improvements to help make the town hall redevelopment project possible. Governor Phil Scott and the Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) announced the award as part of just over $4 million in[Read More…]
One-Vehicle in Ditch, Tree Down Following Accident
HARDWICK – On November 15, at 6:15 p.m., Hardwick Fire Department was toned for a one-car motor vehicle accident on Vt. 15 E. near the Walden town line. Engine 2 responded to the scene along with Hardwick Rescue and the Hardwick Police Department. On arrival the vehicle was found on[Read More…]
DHART Helicopter Transports Unconscious Occupant in One-Car Rollover
WOODBURY – On November 14, at 11:43 a.m., Woodbury Volunteer Fire Department (WVFD) Assistant Chief Neill discovered a one-car rollover in the area of 588 Route 14 while driving his town dump truck for his day job. Neill called the crash in. WVFD and FAST Squad and Hardwick Emergency Rescue[Read More…]
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Beck Proposes Education Foundation Formula Funding
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – Vermonters cited affordability as a top priority in the 2024 election, and last week, they voted to send more Republicans to Montpelier than in recent decades. Driving affordability concerns is the cost of education, which fueled this year’s average education property tax increase of 13.8%. The election results, which saw a[Read More…]
