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Embracing renewable energy and hoping to educate Vermonters about it, Central Vermont Public Service (NYSE: CV) today unveiled its new Rutland Town solar project and renewable energy education center.
Today, Vermont legislators, retailers, and representatives from the Vermont Retail Association and Vermont Grocers Association met at the Elmore Store in Elmore, Vermont, to discuss the importance of Vermont s new credit card law. Passed unanimously by both legislative bodies in Vermont, the law, S.138, prohibits abusive practices by credit card companies.
Vermont Humanities Council grant awards will make a humanities impact throughout Vermont this year. In all, VHC made nine awards to nonprofits for humanities programming, totaling $19,100.
by James Dwinell, Vermont Business Magazine -- Topnotch Resort and Spa in Stowe has a new management team. According to Arthur Kreizel, a longtime adviser to Topnotch and a former owner with the Cummings family of Stowe and Montreal, This is a done deal.
The Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) 2010 Awards Jury presented a Merit Award for Residential and Garden Design to the H. Keith Wagner Partnership (HKWP) for the North Cove Residence located in Shelburne, Vermont.
Entergy Corporation today announced that a recently completed root cause analysis of a tritium leak at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant determined that the leak was primarily caused by an earlier design deficiency and inadequate inspection of an underground area of the plant that could not be accessed.
The Grafton Village Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service.
In a dramatic move to make the Causeway Bike Ferry financially sustainable while also expanding service, Local Motion will be implementing the following big changes this season:
¢ More service: Weather permitting, the Bike Ferry will run 10am to 6pm every weekend and holiday from July 3 to Labor Day September 6 - a total of 22 days, up from the 8-13 days of service in past 7 years.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation today reopened the Waterbury Park and Ride, which had been closed for expansion and modernization since April 12. The new park and ride has 70 spaces, while the old one had 60 spaces, but since those spaces were not delineated fewer cars may have comfortably fit at times.
Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell announced today that his office has sent letters to owners of forty-four rental properties in downtown Barre requesting that they demonstrate compliance with the Vermont lead law at the properties. The landlords have been given 90 days to respond to his office.
Average retail gasoline prices in Vermont have fallen 2.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.77/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has increased 3.7 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.73/g, according to gasoline price website VermontGasPrices.com.