By Amy Ash Nixon, VTDigger.org When the newly formed long-range planning committee of the Vermont State Colleges (VSC) system meets, one of the topics under discussion will be changing Castleton State College’s name to Castleton University. VSC Chancellor Jeb Spaulding […]
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Vt. Nat’l Guard to send troops to Japan
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org The Vermont National Guard announced plans Wednesday, June 10, for some 150 Vermont guardsmen and ten F-16 fighter jets of the 158th Fighter Wing of the Air Combat Command to be deployed to Okinawa, Japan, to […]
TDI, CLF reach agreement on transmission line project
By Morgan True, VTDigger.org The Conservation Law Foundation has agreed not to oppose a 154-mile high-voltage transmission cable that would run beneath Lake Champlain in exchange for an increase the value of a benefits package the developer offered the state. […]
Politicians, business interests cheer economic development bill
By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger.org Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a 176-page economic development bill on Thursday, June 4, that lawmakers designed to help create jobs, boost wages and make it easier to do business in Vermont. Shumlin signed S.138 at Cabot […]
Designbook backed by Shumlin in trademark fight with Facebook
By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger.org A six-person Vermont company is fighting corporate lawyers from Facebook who want to block the startup’s trademark application with the federal government. Based in Burlington, Designbook LLC is an online platform created to help engineers raise […]
Environmental study sees little problem with cable under Lake Champlain
The cable would travel 97.3 miles underneath the lake to Benson, then 56.7 miles to Ludlow By Morgan True, VTDigger.org The U.S. Department of Energy has released a draft environmental impact study on a development firm’s proposal to run a 154-mile […]
Vermonters mourn longtime TV anchor Marselis Parsons
By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger.org Hearts went out to Marselis Parsons’ family on Wednesday, May 27, when Channel 3 News announced that the veteran news anchor had lost his battle with skin cancer. He had received treatment for several months before […]
Three Vermont colleges listed among 100 most affordable in U.S.
By Amy Ash Nixon, VTDigger.org A recent listing of the 100 most affordable small colleges in the country includes three of Vermont State College system’s four-year institutions: Castleton, Johnson and Lyndon. The list was published last month by a website […]
Bill creates college savings account for every Vt. baby
By Amy Ash Nixon, VTDigger.org Vermont will soon join a number of other states in launching a children’s savings account program aimed at encouraging more low-income children, and their parents, to consider higher education. Under a bill passed by the […]
Vt.’s unemployment rate down to 3.6 percent
By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger.org Vermont’s unemployment rate fell again in April to a seasonally adjusted 3.6 percent. The drop from 3.8 percent in March is statistically significant, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Vermont is now tied […]