Grandpa's Knob windmill plan lights 1600 homes fails
Vermont project on Grandpa's Knob began in 1941 as a 1500 kilowatt wind turbine intended to power 1600 homes. After wartime shortages, blade failure and economic limits led to dismantling in 1946, while experts noted marginal Vermont winds and limited future potential for wind power.
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Hubbardton
Vermont
Harvard
MIT
Vermont Public Service Corp
Fortune Magazine
Johnny Reil
Grandpa’s Knob
CVPS
Morgan Smith
York
Boston
Palmer Putnam
Putnam
Cape Cod
Albert Cree
James Griffin
Griffin
Federal Power Commission
Inflation doesn’t explain insurance costs in New Hampshire
In New Hampshire the president of Independent Insurance Agents argues rising premiums are driven by factors beyond inflation. Donald Sargent cites better benefits, inflated claims, fraud, arson, and accidents as key cost drivers, urging public awareness and policyholder education to curb rates.
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New Hampshire
Donald Sargent
Sargent
Downing backs impeachment talk over Thomson ruling
Senate Minority Leader Delbert Downing of Salem says he would be sympathetic to impeaching Gov. Meldrim Thomson if he keeps involving himself in legislative affairs. Rep. Eugene Daniels would move to impeach unless Thomson stops ordering department heads from testifying at budget hearings. House subpoenas forced department heads to appear at hearings amid clashes with the executive.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
Senate
Delbert Downing
D-Salem
Meldrim Thomson
Eugene Daniels
Franklin
Thomson
House Appropriations Committee
Gene
Downing
Vermont Yankee protest plans site occupation by 25
A Vermont anti nclear coalition called the Vermont Yankee Deaning Alliance said it will occupy the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant site on October 8 to prevent re opening. The group of about 25 people plans to stay until they are removed or the plant closes, marking the first East Coast protest at an operating nuclear facility. The Vernon plant has been shut for routine maintenance. Rutland Hospital to raise room rates October 1 by 3.50 daily for most rooms.
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Rutland
UPI
Vermont
John Richwagen
Richwagen
Central Vermont
Berlin
Medical Center Hospital
Burlington
Arraignment set for Gibney in Vermont assault case
Gordon Gibney 52 of Holland faces arraignment in Vermont District Court on aggravated assault charges after police say he fired a shotgun through his father in law Fred Shompany s mobile home window. The two neighbors share a back road home near Holland.
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Newport
UPI
Gordon Gibney
Holland
Vermont
Gibney
Fred Shompany
Rape trial in New York proceeds despite mistrial motion
In Troy a judge denied a mistrial in the Breed motorcycle gang rape case after a Albany woman testified she smelled marijuana at an Oct. 3 1976 party before the assault. She identified defendants Martin Pulver and William Liberty, saying they raped her with as many as 25 others at a rural Poestenkill location known as The Swamp. She later corrected misidentification from a prior hearing. In Lans ingburgh a Capital Christian Church service featured pastor Frank Becker smashing a television set in protest of television’s influence, joined by educators and religious leaders in a parade of anti TV posters.
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Troy
Breed
Albany
Don G. Cholakis
Poestenkill
Martin Pulver
William Liberty
Kingston
Pulver
Liberty
Tiny
Lansingburgh
Capital Christian Church
Frank Becker
Becker
Ex-resident charged in murder in Vermont case
In Washington County Superior Court Montpelier seeking motion on motion in the Susan Shortsleeve murder case. Shortsleeve 36 of Berlin VT pleaded not guilty to murder one for Aug 24 stabbing death of husband Maurice 39 of Northfield Falls VT. Bail set at 20000. She lived in North Adams before 1970 as Susan Biondo. She is mother and stepmother to several children.
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North Adams
Montpelier
Washington County
Susan Shortsleeve
Berlin
Shortsleeve
Maurice
Northfield Falls
Susan Biondo
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Deborah Cisco
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Summit
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Bennington County
James White
White
Commission
Prospect Mountain
Woodford City
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Showaobilwg
Concord, N.H
Independent Insurance Agents of
Erie
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Williams & Bugbee, Inc
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IH. Greenberg & Son
Main St. Benn., Vt
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Eda
Ludlow
GOP
John Wu
Federal Economic Development Administration
Jacky DuBray
N.Y
South Burlington
DuBray
Merchants Bank
James Holden
White River
New York
Sabbath Service
Down In
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BWI
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