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An officer with the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles today arrested Brian Wells, 26, of Boston, Massachusetts at the DMV branch office on North Avenue in Burlington and charged him with attempting to obtain an operator’s license using a stolen identity.

The Vermont Public Service Board, which is the chief regulator in the state of Vermont, will hold a public hearing on whether to extend the license of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. The event will be held at 7 pm at the Brattleboro Union High School. Vermont Yankee owner Entergy wants to keep operating the plant 20 years beyond the 2010 license expiration.

Bob Young, who as president led Central Vermont Public Service (NYSE-CV) through a cultural, service and environmental transformation, today announced his planned retirement. Young will remain as chairman, president and chief executive officer until next May to allow for an orderly search and transition.

Jay Break Resort broke ground yesterday in what will be the largest water park in the New England. The 60,000-square-foot park will have a retractable roof and a wave pool. The park is the last grand piece of a vision to develop a four-season resort available during any season. Jay Peak has already completed its ice arena to go along with its famous skiing and new golf course.

New fish samples taken from the Connecticut River on April 23 and analyzed by Vermont Yankee’s contract laboratory have tested positive for strontium-90 (Sr-90). Concentrations of Sr-90 detected in the inedible portions of these fish are in the range of what would be expected as a result of fallout from nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s, and the Chernobyl release in 1986.

Killington, VT. (July 7, 2010): The second round of play at the New England Women’s Golf Association Championship was completed Wednesday. Teo Poplawski of Champlain Country Club (Vermont) fired a 71 to take the lead. Samantha Morrell of Laurel Lane Golf Club (RI) was in second with a 148. Tara Joy Connelly of Cohasset Golf Club (MA) was in third place with a 149.

Vermont Attorney General William H Sorrell has filed suit against CSA-Credit Solutions of America, LLC, a debt settlement company based in Dallas, Texas, and its current and former chief executive officers, Doug Van Arsdale and Matt Reivitt, alleging multiple violations of the Vermont Consumer Fraud Act.

The check is in the mail. State officials hope to see that statement quickly become a quaint reference to a by-gone era as vendors receiving payment from the State of Vermont switch to electronic payment. The state anticipates that it could save taxpayers upwards of $600,000 a year. At the same time, vendors would get paid more quickly. In 2009, the state issued 194,926 checks.

Senator Patrick Leahy joined representatives of the Northeastern Vermont Development Association (NVDA), the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE), and local business and community leaders Wednesday afternoon in Hardwick to break ground on the Vermont Food Venture Center 2 – a non-profit kitchen incubator Leahy said would be a cornerstone in the State of Vermont’s efforts to promote agricult

Following Entergy Corporation’s (NYSE:ETR) major reorganization announced last month (STORY) by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J Wayne Leonard, Leo Denault, executive vice president and chief financial officer; Richard Smith, president, Entergy wholesale commodities business; and Rod West, executive vice president and chief administrative officer have named new leaders within their respec

After providing students and parents federal and private loans for years, the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC) will go to the bond market within the next two weeks to raise finances for about $23 million in private student loans for the 2010-11 academic year.

The Vermont Agency of Transportation learned today that the US Army Corps of Engineers determined that the Agency’s preferred alternative for the next phase of the Chittenden County Circumferential Highway (Circ) passes environmental muster. If all goes as planned, the construction on the Williston phase of the Circ could begin in 2013. VTrans did not say what the total cost might be.