Two financial questions relating to upgraded police and fire facilities will go before the Representative Town Meeting Members on Oct. 20. Meeting members will vote at a Special Town Meeting whether to assess a 1 percent sales tax and whether to approve a bond for the multi-million dollar upgrades to the police and fire stations. Funds generated by the 1 percent sales tax would help finance the capital improvements to the three stations. Without the tax, said Selectboard Chair Dick...
Recent articles on NorthStar's bid to take over decommissioning of the Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee site have raised some questions for me. The issue surrounds “rubblization,” defined on Wikipedia as a “technique that involves saving time and transportation costs by reducing existing concrete into rubble at its current location rather than hauling it to another location.” NorthStar CEO Scott State pointed out that concrete was used as fill at Yankee Rowe and the technique was approved at Connecticut Yankee. On...
It's been just over a year since the New England Center for Circus Arts opened the doors to its custom-built trapezium in Brattleboro, a facility outfitted with an in-ground trampoline and an indoor flying trapeze inside a massive room where people of all ages are often upside down or flying through the air. With growing enrollment alongside an international roster of expert coaches, the circus school has re-developed its programming structures. The current fall session offers more classes for adults...
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