GE Aviation announced Wednesday it will invest another $20
million in its Rutland facility
next year, bringing total investment since 2010 to nearly $100 million. Over the last three years, the GE Rutland
plant has increased employment from 950 to 1,250 workers. At the same time, the plants on Windcrest
Road and Columbian Avenue have completed $75
million in capital improvements.
GE said the growth is driven by a record backlog and rising
production rates.
The Middlebury Selectboard held a special meeting last night
about the Main Street and
Merchants Row Bridge Replacements.
During the meeting, an engineering firm presented conceptual plans for
the Tunnel Option. The presentation,
which included a summary of the overall schedule and project development
process, was a lead-in to the Selectboard's formal consideration and unanimous
approval of the Tunnel Option as the Town's Preferred Alternative for the
Bridge Replacements project.
Construction is slated to begin next spring.
State police want to make sure people living in Rutland
are aware of some training coming up Friday on city streets. During daylight hours October 4th, the
training will happen in the area of Merchants Row and Evelyn
Street in Rutland
City Evelyn Street .
On the first day of the Vermont
marketplace for health insurance, the website was up and running, but not
without problems. By late afternoon yesterday,
85-hundred people had logged on to vermont-health-connect-dot-gov and some had
problems with it running very slow at times.
The Vermont Health Access Commissioner, Mark Larson, says with a new
system that size they knew there would be some issues and were disappointed it
was as slow as it was, but doesn’t see that as a long-term thing. He says while the contractor handling the
site has missed some milestones, he’s confident the work will get done.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has signed legislation to improve
safety for boaters in New York ’s
waterways by requiring safety classes for all boat operators. The new law (A.3471-A/S.1639-A) requires all
boat operators to obtain a boating safety certificate by completing an eight hour
safe boating course. The requirement
will be put into effect over a period of years, beginning next year with all
18-year-old boaters. The previous law
only required the operator of a personal watercraft to obtain a boating safety
certificate or be accompanied on the vessel by a person over 18 years of age
who is the holder of a safety certificate.
The new law extends the requirement to all motorized water vessels.
Burlington Police are investigating a hit and run involving
a pedestrian that happened just before 8 p.m.
last night on Main Street
near St. Paul Street . Officers say the victim, a 55 year old man,
suffered substantial injuries. The car
that hit him then took off. Police are
looking for a blue or black hatch-back type.
The vehicle did not have Vermont
plates and had a white license plate with dark letters. Anyone with information is asked to contact
the Burlington Police Department.
