U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says the automatic federal budget
cuts will hurt Vermonters. At a news
conference this morning, it was announced that as many as 4,400 families could
be affected by cuts in rental assistance, crisis fuel aid and other emergency
assistance programs that help keep families in their homes. As many as 170 children out of the 1,500
enrolled in Head Start in Vermont
may also be affected. Sanders says to
reduce deficits, he is calling for closing tax loopholes that let profitable
corporations and wealthy individuals shelter income in offshore tax havens.
Vermont State Police are looking for a driver who ditched a
truck in a field after fleeing to evade a traffic stop early Saturday. Police said they were in the area of a
reported underage drinking party shortly before 1
AM when they spotted the driver of a truck committing a traffic
violation on Basin Harbor Road . The driver fled when signaled to stop and the
truck was later found in a field. Anyone
with information is asked to call Vermont State Police.
Foreclosures are spiking in Vermont ,
but experts say they don't expect the trend to affect home prices. As other states begin to rebound from the
housing crisis, negative effects are now beginning to ripple through Vermont . In January, Vermont
home sale prices went up six percent.
But in February, 159 foreclosure procedures began in the state. The foreclosure spike is expected to last for
about a year.
Ice fishing shanties in New York
have got to go by the end of the week.
That's the word from the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Owners who do not meet the Friday deadline will be fined $100.
The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is offline for a
while, but it's all planned. The nuclear
reactor was taken offline Saturday night for scheduled refueling. The plant has not gone off the grid since November
2011, but at times has been scaled back on its power output due to various
problems.
