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The Travel Channel is scheduled to cover the May 16, Williston, Vermont, kick-off of the international adventure Spartan Race Series (www.spartanrace.com) that will feed qualifiers into the now-infamous Death Race (www.peakraces.com) held annually in Pittsfield, VT.
In honor of the original Boston Cream Pie, created in 1855 at the former Parker House Hotel in Boston, Ben & Jerry s announces its newest creation to Bostonians and pie lovers nationwide. Boston Cream Pie is a decadent mix of Boston Cream Pie ice cream with yellow cake pieces, fudge flakes and swirls of pastry cream. It s a flavor worthy of a horse ride to Lexington!
(Vermont Business Magazine) The State of Washington has filed suit against the federal government for dropping its plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The Nevada site was intended to house spent fuel from all the nuclear power plants in the United States, including Vermont Yankee.
Federal regulators have again denied certification to the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury. Lawmakers, who had assumed the hospital would get its certification back this year, learned of the decision last week as they were in the final stages of approving the state budget. The development could cause a $9.7 million deficiency in the budget.
Vermont s primary election will be moved from its traditional date in the middle of September to the fourth Tuesday in August, a change which will take effect this year. This year s primary will occur on August 24. Governor Jim Douglas allowed the bill to pass into law last week without his signature.
The new CEO of Ben & Jerry s, Jostein Solheim, has promised to keep the company rooted in Vermont, citing the Vermont brand as an important part of marketing the product. He also pointed to the company s history, its social and environmental causes, the Vermont plants proximity to raw materials and the skills of the workers in those plants as reasons to stay put.
Central Vermont Public Service was the top scoring utility company on Forbes Magazine s The 100 Most Trustworthy Companies list last week. The companies which made the list had what Forbes called the most transparent and conservative accounting practices and most prudent management.
FairPoint Communications will build a fiber-optic network to bring high-speed Internet access to northern Chittenden County, rather than above ground towers, according to a story in the Burlington Free Press. The company cited reliability, cost effectiveness, and timing as reasons behind the decision.
The total number of visits to Vermont ski areas may have hit 4 million again this year. Last season, the number of visits to the 20 ski areas across the state topped out at 4,068,698.
The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund has announced that grants amounting to $125,000 will be made available for their Algae Feedstock Analysis R&D Program, as part of VSJF s Vermont Biofuels Initiative. Grants will be awarded based on proposals for using microalgae as a biofuel feedstock.
After a four year term as president of Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center, Ty Handy will leave the position this summer. Handy has been hired as president of Northwest Florida State College in Niceville, Florida, a school with a larger enrollment and a larger budget than VTC. He cited proximity to family and the opportunity to head a larger school as reasons for the move.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation on April 14, 2010 will close a portion of Route 7A in Bennington. The closure, which will last approximately four weeks, is necessary to perform structural repairs and widening of Bridge 1 just north of the intersection with Route 67A, commonly referred to as Northside Drive.