Rockingham plan faces Senate review after House approval
Vermont House approves a federal grant to study the so called Rockingham Plan for educational financing and sends it to the Senate. Committee chair Peter Giuliani calls the plan grandiose and says it could abolish local property tax and state education control, while noting about $200,000 would return to the state in tax dollars paid by staff administering the project.
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Montpelier
UPI
Giuliani
John Fletter
Ronald Crisman
Deane C. Davis
Gillani
Vermont offers training for health and environmental officers
A four location training course will run in April and May across Burlington Rutland Bellows Falls and Randolph. The five session program covers duties, water and sewer issues, regulations, health hazards, communicable diseases, and enforcement. Instructors come from state attorney offices Health Department and Agency of Environmental Conservation. Registration is free and certificates awarded on completion. For details contact Samuel B Johnson Montpelier VT 05602 828 3217.
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Montpelier
Vermont Health and Environmental
Division of Environmental Health
The
Health Department
Burlington
UVM
Vermont
Agency of Environmental Conservation
Boards of Health
Plso
Samuel B. Johnson
Agency of Development and Community Afftairs
Vermont Jobless Rate Dips to 6.1 Percent
Vermont’s insured unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent last week from 6.3 percent. About 8,000 workers received benefits totaling nearly $400,000 as materials recycled included 5,600 pounds glass, 9,750 pounds paper, 1,650 pounds metal cans, and two pounds aluminum. Unemployment trust fund stands at $2.2 million, down from just over $11 million a year earlier. Local rates ranged from Barre Montpelier 7.9 percent to St. Albans 13.1 percent and Rutland 3.8 percent.
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Robert Pedercini
Barre-Montpelier
Bennington
Brattleburg
Burlington
Middlebury
Rutland
St. Albans
Springfield
White River Junction
County clerks' salaries eyed
State Auditor Alexander Acebo said counties may not use operating funds to supplement county court clerk salaries after an attorney general opinion. The AG office states salaries are fixed by law and cannot be raised above set levels. Some counties reportedly used unauthorized funds for decades to subsidize clerks.
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Montpelier
UPI
State Auditor of Accounts
Alexander Acetoa
Attorney General’s Office
Acebo
William Griffin
Panel to Probe Slippage of Vermont Colleges Image
BELLOWS FALLS UPI Gov Thomas Salmon names a blue ribbon panel to study the University of Vermont and the Vermont State Colleges and to examine a proposed merger. The plan had support from former Republican Gov Deane Davis and both boards but was rejected by the Vermont House last year.
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Bellows Falls
UPI
University of Vermont
Vermont
Thomas Salmon
Salmon
Deane C. Davis
Vermont House
Environmental groups appeal Vermont Yankee license ruling
Two groups the Natural Resources Defense Council and the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution filed with the Atomic Energy Commission Appeals Board to challenge the Vernon Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant license. They argue the license contains four errors and threaten court action if the appeal fails. Vermont Yankee received its full power operating license last month after nearly two years of hearings.
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Vermont Yankee
Funeral for Harald F Rising in Hoosick Falls
Harald F Rising retired druggist died unexpectedly at his Hoosick Falls home. His funeral was held Monday in the First Baptist Church where he was the oldest member. Bearers were David Durfee Philip Leonard Edward Cham is Robert McClure Guy Phillips and Clarence Sausville. The Rev John Elliott officiated. Entombment followed in Maple Grove Cemetery vault Hoosick Falls.
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Harald ¥. Rising
Hoosick Falls
First Baptist Church
David Durfee
Philip Leonard
Edward Oamis
Robert McClure
Guy H. Phillips
Clarence Sausville
John Elliott
Maple Grove Cemetery
Hoosick Falla
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Cale Law
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New England
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