If there was ever a winter to
remind tourism officials that it's dangerous to bank on
snow, this is it. At Jay Peak Resort, developer Bill Stenger has already
built a water park to give his visitors
something to do, no matter the weather. Now he plans to do the same at Burke Mountain.
The
Korean company planning to build a bio-tech facility in Newport is now likely
to create 450 permanent and 50 seasonal jobs, double the number proposed
in September.
Vermont's Northeast Kingdom has the highest unemployment rates in the state. Much
of the reason has to do with the loss of manufacturing jobs over the years.