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GREEN MOUNTAIN POWER CORPORATION TO BE ACQUIRED
BY NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND ENERGY CORPORATION,
A SUBSIDIARY OF GAZ MÉTRO LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
COLCHESTER, VT&. Green Mountain Power Corporation ('Green Mountain Power' or the 'Company') (NYSE-GMP) announced today (June 22, 2006) that Green Mountain Power and Vermont-based Northern New England Energy Corporation ('NNEEC') have entered into a definitive agreement whereby NNEEC will acquire Green Mountain Power. Shareholders of Green Mountain Power will receive $35.00 per share in cash or approximately $187 million in the aggregate.
NNEEC is a Vermont corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gaz Métro Limited Partnership (TSX-GZM.UN), a leading Québec energy company with a long history of investment in Vermont. NNEEC has been the parent company of Vermont Gas Systems since 1986.

NEW CLIENTS FOR VERMONT AD FIRM, MOONDYNE AGENCY.
Draker Solar Design, LLC and Vermont Hand Crafters, Inc. have both partnered with Burlington communications company Moondyne Agency.
Draker Solar, a key player in the green technology sector and specialist in fully integrated 'green' data acquisition, has charged Moondyne Agency with developing a new look and feel for the growing brand's print and collateral efforts.
Also this spring, Moondyne Agency added Vermont Hand Crafters (VHC) to its roster of clients. VHC was formed in 1955 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and sale of Vermont crafts. They have enlisted Moondyne's services in multiple. Agency duties include re-branding, print advertising, television, and radio. Portions of the brand's transition to a new image are to be in place for VHC's 54th annual Holiday Craft & Art Show, an event which takes place in South Burlington each November.

Community Capital of Vermont, a nonprofit 501c3 alternative business lender, has recently hired Judith Kaufman of Community Development Services as its Southern Vermont Loan Officer.
Kaufman, on board since mid-May, will be handling all inquiries and applications from entrepreneurs seeking financing for the counties of Rutland, Bennington, Windham, and Windsor. Kaufman has a wide range of experience in small business and community development in Vermont and New Hampshire as well as internationally. Community Capital is pleased to have Kaufman join the Loan Officer team and encourages any business owner from the Southern part of the State who is interested in Community Capital financing to contact her at [email protected] or 802-371-8767. Inquiries from other parts of the state should call Loan Officer, Chris Rottler, at [email protected] or 802-479-1053, ext. 254.

22nd June 2006, A family of desktop and laptop computers from Apple, introduced in 1984. When spelled Mac, short for Macintosh computer. It was the first computer to popularize the graphical user interface (GUI). The combination of Mac hardware and software has been exceptionally consistent over the years, providing an ease of use that Mac users have enjoyed.
The combination of Mac hardware and software has been exceptionally consistent over the years, providing an ease of use that Mac users have enjoyed. With a Windows emulator such as Virtual PC, Macs can also run Windows and DOS applications. Since the mid 1980s, it has been essentially a Mac vs. PC world for personal computers, with Linux-based PCs gaining ground after the millennium.

The Mac OS:
Mac OS runs smoothly. That's what I noticed first off. There's very little waiting, very little fussing, very little Ctrl+Alt+Del/End Task for behavior control.
For Macintosh Computer Users, Mac OS 9 is the last stop a famous train. It's the last version of the operating system that changed the world that put the Mac on the map and inspired such imitators as Microsoft Windows. After Mac OS 9, Apple Computer plans to introduce Mac OS X, a radically new operating system that looks and works nothing like the Mac we'
ve come to know.
Mac OS 9 is better designed and more conductive to productivity than Mac OS X. Mac OS 9 still offers such familiar and useful features as the launcher, menu, application menu control strip, pop-up windows, collapsible windows, and so on.

Supermarket Chains Fined Nearly $20,000 for Violating VT
Retail Pricing Laws

Three major supermarket chains, one drug store chain, and
one other national retailer have been cited and penalized for violating Vermont
retail pricing laws. Shaws, Price
Chopper, and Grand Union Supermarkets; Rite Aid Pharmacy; and JC Penney have all
agreed to pay penalties ranging from $1,000 to $3,500 for overcharging consumers
for items in their stores.

The violations were discovered during routine surveys by
inspectors from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. In all five stores, inspectors found
that prices at registers were higher than prices advertised on shelves for
certain items. Those discrepancies
ranged from $.02 to $14. An
investigation found no evidence of intentional wrongdoing, but there were
factors about these discrepancies that concerned
officials.

BURLINGTON, Vt. --The state of Vermont has an extremely strong small-business tradition--running the gamut from specialty food companies to graphic design firms to high-tech start-ups--all providing employment to Vermonters and bolstering the states economy.
Building on that tradition and Champlain Colleges reputation for innovative, hands-on education, Champlain President David F. Finney unveiled a new program on June 15 that will help young entrepreneurs grow their businesses while they attend Champlain.

Governor Douglas to Call Emergency Dairy Summit
Also Seeks Federal Emergency Relief

WHAT: Governor
to Call Emergency Dairy Summit

Burlington, Vt.-Governor Jim Douglas has announced
that his administration, working with the Vermont Milk Commission, is organizing an Emergency Dairy Summit to discuss all available
means to help farmers in the near term so that they can weather what the
Governor calls a 'perfect storm' of circumstances.

"Low milk prices, high fuel and energy cost and poor crop, or in
some cases destroyed crops, due to extended spring rains are contributing to
what is now a clear crisis situation for Vermont's
dairy farmers," Governor Douglas said. "Because of this perfect
storm of events, I have directed my Secretary of Administration, Mike Smith to
work closely with my entire cabinet in coordination with our partners in the

BURLINGTON, Vt.--Area experts in Internet marketing and business practices are teaching five new 'mini-courses' at Champlain College this summer and fall. The online courses are well-suited to business professionals who want to use Internet technologies to advance their organizations. Each of the one-credit courses runs for five weeks.
"These are tactics that don't require traditional textbook teaching," said Elaine Young, director of Champlain's e-Business Management program. "These are practical, ready-to-use-right-away courses."
Dave Winslow and Alex Broussard of EpikOne will teach the first three courses, where students will getting the most current information possible in the areas of: 'Search Engine Optimization,' 'Google AdWords' and 'Web Analytics.' These three courses begin July 5. Winslow, a Champlain alumnus, and Broussard are Google Enterprise Professional and Google Analytics Authorized Consultants.

SBA Vermont Small Business Person of the Year and Champion Award Celebration
NEWS EVENT: The 2006 Vermont Small Business Person of the Year and Champion Award recipients will be honored by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) at a ceremony presented by Vermont Business Magazine at Burlington's Waterfront Park.

Gov. James Douglas will present the Small Business Person of the Year award to John Wall, Wall/Goldfinger, Inc., Northfield, Vermont, with additional remarks by Mayor Bob Kiss, City of Burlington, SBA Regional Administrator Charlie Summers, and others.
Champion awards will be presented to the following individuals:

Janet Bullard, Vermont Commission on Women, Montpelier;
James Keyes, Citizens Bank, Burlington;

Berlin, Vt -- A $25,000 Quality Incentive Award was presented to Woodridge Nursing Home of Central Vermont Medical Center during National Nursing Home Week.
Patrick Flood, Commissioner of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living presented the award to members of the Woodridge team.
Awards are made annually to nursing facilities providing and sustaining a superior quality of care in an efficient and effective manner. The award must be used to enhance the quality of service provided to residents of the facility. In order to be eligible for the award, a facility must participate in the Vermont Medicaid program and meet the following criteria:
1. Resident satisfaction surveys above the statewide average.
2. Designated Gold Star Provider.
3. No substantiated complaints in previous 12 months related to the quality of care, quality of life, or residents' rights.

Ever since attending the University of Vermont in the 1960's, Steve Burzon has known that he wanted to live and work in Vermont. But first came years working in the big city as a publishing executive where he studied marketing and design; a requirement for both making a living and living a passionate life. Then in 1998, the time came for a full time move to his home in Danby Four Corners and the beginnings of Garden Arts Custom Landscapes was launched officially in the Spring of 2001.
Now, five years later Garden Arts boasts of an extensive list of steady clients, a consistent growth in revenue and achievements, an enviable record of increasing employment of local people and commerce with local businesses, and a growing New England wide reputation as a knowledgeable designer and green industry entrepreneur.