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Central Vermont Public Service (NYSE-CV) honored retiring leader Bob Young at the annual meeting of shareholders today, and set out a bold new vision aimed at improving value for customers, shareholders and the state of Vermont.
Fletcher Allen radiologist Dr Kristen Destigter has received a $100,000 grant from the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, to help her further improve her efforts on the Imaging the World project by getting ultrasound technology in developing countries.
"In the developing world, maternal mortality and morbidity is very high," Destigter said.
The Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties Holly D. Miller building at 1110 Prim Road in Colchester has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star rating signifying the building performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency.
by Anne Galloway, www.vtdigger.org April 30, 2011 The Shumlin administration wants Entergy Corp to pay for any legal expenses the state may incur as it defends itself against a lawsuit Entergy initiated against the state two weeks ago.
Construction of the new Rutland Academic Center for the Community College of Vermont has begun. CCV will be relocating its Rutland campus to new a new location at the corner of West Street and Wales Street in downtown Rutland. The new Academic Center is being constructed for CCV with occupancy scheduled for the end of this year, in time for spring semester classes starting January 2012.
A national report confirms that renters in Vermont struggle to find affordable places to live. In 2010, Vermont is ranked the 15th least affordable state in the nation, according to a new report jointly released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), a Washington, DC-based housing advocacy group, and the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (VAHC).
First Wind Holdings, LLC (First Wind), (TSX - AQN): Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. (Algonquin) and (TSX - EMA) Emera Inc. (Emera) announced today that they have entered into an agreement to jointly construct, own and operate wind energy projects in the Northeast US.
Online advertised vacancies slipped by 123,800 in April to 4,322,300 according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine (HWOL) Data Series released today. The April decline follows a strong gain of 763,100 in the first quarter of 2011. Vermont was up 800.
Vermont's top elected officials, Seantors Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, Rpresentative Peter Welch and Governor Peter Shumlin, offered these remarks in reactioni to President Obama's announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed Sunday by US special forces in Pakistan.
Senator Leahy
May 1, 2011
by Anne Galloway, www.vtdigger.org April 27, 2011 Spring is in the air, and the internal atmosphere of the Golden Bubble is a little odd at the moment. Lawmakers have finished their hardest exams (the budget, tax and health care bills), but they still have all these assignments left that must be finished in order to avoid getting an incomplete.
by Anne Galloway, www.vtdigger.org April 29, 2011 The buck stops with the Senate Finance Committee. Two major bills are under consideration in the money committee ‘ H.56, the energy bill, and H.287, the jobs bill ‘ and both come with sticky language that senators were trying to make sense of on Thursday.
Secretary of State Jim Condos announced today that he is embarking on a ‘Vermont Transparency Tour’ to travel the state to help educate and train local and state government officials on the laws of the state regarding Access to Public Records and Open Meetings.
He said at least 12 training sessions are envisioned this summer.