Gov. Peter Shumlin said on Wednesday the state shouldn’t collect $6 million that the
auditor’s office says several towns owe to the state education fund.
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.
Defense
attorney David Sleigh wants charges against 20 of his Orleans County clients dropped because he claims the state’s attorney
was improperly appointed. Sleigh
has sparked a legal battle that may seem arcane, but he insists his clients’
rights to due process are at stake.
A West Charleston woman wants to bring many local food products
together in one place. Leger’s idea took
a significant step forward recently when the limited liability corporation in
which she and her husband are investors, purchased a downtown Newport building that will
become the future site of the Northeast
Kingdom Tasting Center.
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.
Newport has long suffered from having the highest
unemployment rate in the state, but new
businesses are cropping up to fill some empty downtown storefronts.
Support is building in the Newport area for a cancer doctor who has been told to leave North Country Hospital, as administrators
plan to replace him with two part-time doctors
who will travel from Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon.
We hear about the new positive developments in the battle against white nose syndrome in bats and get an update on the economic advancements underway in Newport.
Vermont’s unemployment rate has climbed again. The state Department of Labor says
the rate for July was 5.7 percent. That’s up two-tenths of a
percentage point from July.