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Vermont’s candidates for Governor will take questions from business leaders on the critical issues facing businesses during the “Meet the Candidates” Luncheon at the Vermont Business and Industry EXPO, Thursday, May 27 from 12 noon – 2 pm in the Diamond Ballroom at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center.
Unlike last year when Vermont Governor Jim Douglas vetoed the budget the Legislature handed him, only to have lawmakers override his veto in a special session in June, the 2011 $4.7 billion budget was signed by the governor in May, with praise coming from him and his former antagonists.
The Windsor County Superior Court has held John Hennessey of Chester, Vermont, liable for $10,000 in civil penalties for operating a junkyard without a license and violating the state’s Solid Waste Management Rules and Hazardous Waste Management Regulations.
Vermont Attorney General William H Sorrell is warning local homeowners in financial distress to avoid offers of quick fixes for their mortgage or foreclosure problems.
Early this morning (May 24, 2010), Vermont Yankee control room operators brought the 650 megawatt nuclear power plant back into service. There was a delay early Sunday morning while reconnecting to the New England power grid when operators noticed that generator readings were different than expected and disconnected from the grid.
Average retail gasoline prices in Vermont have fallen 3.6 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.86/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 6.8 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.80/g, according to gasoline price website VermontGasPrices.com.
It was announced today that Simon Pearce, Vermont Flannel and Vermont Teddy Bear are among the Made in the USA Foundation's inaugural recipients of its Hall of Fame Awards. Awards are presented to companies whose ongoing commitment to manufacturing goods in the United States reflects their support of creating local jobs and upholding fair trade standards throughout the world.
The owners of the Gracey's Store gas station and convenience store on Williston Road in South Burlington, Slimain Handy's Convenience Stores, will pay a $35,000 penalty to the State as a result of a gasoline leak from an underground storage tank that contaminated the soil and groundwater at the station.
A May 14, 2010 radiochemical analysis of soil samples taken on March 17 from the Advanced Off-Gas (AOG) pipe tunnel excavation shows the presence of strontium-90 (Sr-90). Vermont Yankee shared these results with the Vermont Department of Health on May 20.
In light of a favorable weather forecast for Sunday, May 23, the University of Vermont's 206th commencement ceremony will take place on the University Green. The location is the University Green located between University Row and South Prospect Streets.
The Vermont Department of Labor announced today that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April 2010 was 6.4 percent, down two tenths from the revised March rate and down eight tenths from a year ago.
Green Mountain Power, owner of the only operating wind generation farm in Vermont, filed today with state regulators for permission to build a second wind generating plant, up to 63 megawatts, in Lowell, Vermont. The $150 million investment in the Northeast Kingdom will provide jobs and significant economic benefits, in addition to increasing the state's renewable energy generation.