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Senator Patrick Leahy and the Vermont Congressional Delegation – Leahy (D), Senator Bernie Sanders (I) and Representative Peter Welch (D) -- announced Thursday that the Secretary of the Air Force has selected the Vermont National Guard in Burlington as one of 10 final candidates to base the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The state has awarded more than $1.3 million to the City of Burlington to purchase and rehabilitate foreclosed homes and convert a New North End building into affordable housing.
Regulations published today by the US Small Business Administration will create a secondary market guarantee program to provide greater liquidity for lenders and expand access to capital for small businesses.
A multimillion dollar factory in Barre Town that will produce components for electric and hybrid cars and a blighted public housing project in Rutland were among the winners of $3.6 million in grants awarded by the state of Vermont Wednesday.
There were 1,224 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance last week, an increase of 1190 from the week before as filings continue their upward trend. The September Vermont unemployment rate is 6.7 percent, down one-tenth from August. However, economists believe that it will rise to over 7 percent by the end of this year. The current US rate is 9.7 percent.
With a nip in the air, Central Vermont Public Service today kicked off the annual CVPS Shareheat fund drive to provide emergency fuel assistance to Vermonters in need.
Vermont Public Radio met its October membership drive goal on Monday morning, surpassing its goal of $600,000. As a result, Chittenden Bank, which agreed to make a donation to the CVPS Shareheat and Warmth programs for every pledge to VPR, will donate about $25,000 to help keep families in crisis warm this winter.
Central Vermont Public Service will receive over $31 million in federal stimulus funds to aid in the implementation of CVPS SmartPower, the company s smart grid customer service and reliability program. The U.S. Department of Energy announced the funding as part of a statewide grant today.
The Vermont/New Hampshire chapter of the Association of Builders and Contractors is honoring the McNeil Generating Station, the 50 megawatt woodchip plant in Burlington s Intervale, for installing an RSCR (Regenerative Selective Catalytic Reduction) NOx-reduction unit at McNeil, which is cutting the NOx emissions from the plant by over half.
On Thursday, October 9, the Vermont Department of Public Service announced that they had arrived at an agreement with the owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to pass the facility along to a spin-off company called Enexus.
The Vermont Congressional Delegation – Senator Patrick Leahy (D), Senator Bernie Sanders (I) and Representative Peter Welch (D) – announced today that Vermont Transco, LLC, will receive $68,928,650 in federal support to launch Vermont’s Smart Grid technology.
After years spent at their Lakeside Avenue plant in Burlington's South End, General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products has announced plans to relocate. In a statement released on Friday the 23, the company revealed that it will be moving its operations to IBM Road in Williston next year. The company is one of Burlington's largest private employers, with a roster of nearly 450 people.