Green Mountain Power will be
taking a power outage for approximately 3 hours early Friday morning, for the
safety of line workers making emergency repairs to a substation. This outage will affect
customers in the Vermont towns of Bristol, Monkton, Starksboro, New Haven, and
Lincoln. The outage is scheduled for 1:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. to
minimize the impact on customers.
The Marbleworks Pharmacy in Middlebury was robbed at gunpoint yesterday. According to Middlebury Police, just after
It didn’t take a federal jury long to find a former Wallingford
fire captain guilty of conspiracy to commit arson. George Allen was accused of conspiring with
other members of the volunteer fire department to set about two dozen fires in
2008, and was found guilty after the jury deliberated just 90 minutes. He’s now free, pending sentencing. Some of the fires were on federal property in
the Green Mountain
National Forest
Three top Vermont
officials expressed confidence earlier today that the state will be ready to
launch the health insurance marketplace being set up under the federal
Affordable Care Act on its scheduled startup date of October 1. Final rates for levels of coverage were also
released. Plans range from the low end
of monthly premium cost, $336 per month for MVP Health Care coverage for a
single person willing to risk a 50 percent copay for hospital services, to
about $1,670 per month for a family plan with a 10 percent copay.
Police in Shoreham say sports memorabilia has been taken in
two home burglaries. Someone took Dale
Earnhardt collectible cars and personal checks from one residence
yesterday. And an autographed Ted
Williams baseball and Ted Williams action figures were taken from another
home. Anyone who has any information is
asked to call Vermont State Police.
The Middlebury selectboard unanimously agreed to apply for
almost $160,000 in state grants to build the first two 600-foot segments of a
bike and pedestrian pathway on Exchange Street . Officials are seeking money for the first
1,200 feet of pathway, extending from the Exchange
Street/Elm Street intersection to the driveway of
MacIntyre Services. If successful with
this application, the town will apply for a future grant to complete the third
and final segment from MacIntyre Services to the Exchange Street/Route 7
intersection.
One of the oldest continuously-running agricultural and
county fairs is set to get underway next week.
The Essex County Fair will celebrate its 165th birthday starting
Wednesday, July 31. The fair, held
annually at the county fairgrounds in Westport
every year since the Civil War, will open on July 31 and continue through
Sunday, August 4, featuring a brand new midway and several new activities and
shows for all ages. For more information
on the 165th Essex County Fair, visit the website essexcountyfair.org.
