More fuel companies are dropping out of the Low Income
Heating Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
Eight companies representing eleven different dealerships are out
because of a new pricing system in place.
That leaves about 14-hundred Vermont
households which qualified last year for fuel assistance scrambling to find a
new dealership. An estimated 28-thousand
600 households in Vermont will be
looking to the program for help in keeping their homes warm this winter.
The Air Force will announce any day now if the Vermont Air
National Guard will receive the controversial F-35 fighter jets. Last night more Burlington
citizens took the opportunity to speak out either for or against the F-35 at
the City Council meeting. It wasn’t as
big a crowd or as raucous as the one last week, but they still were able to
have their say. Opponents to the noisier
jets had complained they were kept from speaking last week, something city
leaders deny.
Vermont State Police and other law enforcement agencies are
teaming up for drunken driving and safety checkpoints later this month. A concentration of the check-points is
planned for Caledonia and Essex
Counties Vermont
highways so far this year, with more than half involving people who did not
buckle up, and a third caused by impaired drivers. The aggressive effort to ensure safety and
sobriety will also have officers checking child restraints and other motor
vehicle laws.
The Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce will join the rest
of the nation for Small Business Saturday.
The fourth annual event will be held Saturday, Nov. 30, and will feature
local businesses offering specials to holiday shoppers. Small Business Saturday falls on Thanksgiving
weekend, between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, when most holiday shopping
begins. For more information on the
Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce go online at www.ticonderogany.com or
“Like” them on Facebook or follow them at TiconderogaADK on twitter.
Checks are being mailed out to some Vermont
propane customers this month as part of a lawsuit settlement with the nation’s
largest propane dealer. AmeriGas was
slow to respond to a new law requiring dealers remove their tanks and refund customers
within 20 days if the client changes dealers.
169 consumers in Vermont
will be getting refunds from 500 to 15-hundred dollars, while more than 800
propane customers will get between 50 and 125 bucks. The checks will be coming from the state Attorney
General’s Office in late November or early December.
The state Treasurer’s office is currently in the middle of
their fall outreach efforts to alert Vermonters to search for unclaimed
property. There’s now more than $64
million in Vermont ’s unclaimed
property fund. During the last fiscal
year, the average claim paid $385 in cash to 13,435 individuals who discovered
they had unclaimed financial property.
To find out if there is money owed to you, visit MissingMoney.Vermont.gov.
