June 6, 2013
Heard on the Street
Cash for Your Old Fridge Efficiency Vermont is offering cash bonuses for inefficient refrigerators and freezers, thereby saving electricity demand. They point out that if you’ve got an unused fridge that’s plugged in but rarely used, you could not only get cash from the turn-in program, but also save as much as $150 in annual [...]
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5.2.13 Growing Your Business: Three Key Business Communication Strategies
by Lindel James Communication is a crucial process for all businesses. Having a business communication strategy is imperative. Your communication strategy is as important as your manufacturing, research and development, and marketing. We all have different preferred receptors of information, therefore multiple strategies are important to ensure that your messages are truly heard and understood. [...]
Why Now Is the Time to Weatherize Your Home
by Dan Jones So it’s warming up, and you want to forget about winter. The fleece has been put away, and plants are popping up. Why talk about weatherization now when the benefits of that work occur during winter with its cold and heating bills? But as climate change brings us May blizzards and April [...]
Increasing Enrollment and Governance Policies Discussed at School Board Meeting
by Zachary Beechler With the school year coming to a close and budget talks off the table until the fall, the conversation at the sparsely attended school board meeting on May 15 shifted to a more philosophical consideration of how the board does what it does and what steps it could take to do [...]
5.2.13 A Microchip Reader for Pets and Progress on the Multimodal Transit Center
by Bob Nuner The Montpelier City Council meeting began with a demonstration of the city’s new microchip reader for pets, donated through the efforts of The Quirky Pet and “the generous help of the Green Mountain Animal Hospital.” The purchase was an initiative of the pet store, which, working with the city clerk’s office, collected [...]
Vermont Legislature Advances Significant Issues
by Ken Russell In 2013, the state of Vermont moved forward on a number of significant issues, including legalizing physician-assisted suicide, allowing migrant farm workers to obtain drivers’ licenses, expanding the free lunch program to all low-income children, decriminalizing the use of small amounts of marijuana and legalizing the growing of industrial hemp. It also [...]
District Heat Pipe Installation Continues
District heat pipe installation continues. Here, main pipes in a ditch between district heat customers Bethany Church and City Center. The pipes also feed the Fairpoint Communications’ central office on their way to Union Elementary School on School Street. A spur would feed Kellogg-Hubbard Library if it chooses to connect. Photos by Bob Nuner. [...]
Climate Change Cabaret: A Call to Action
by Susan Z. Ritz 350 Vermont, Vermont’s branch of Bill McKibben’s global grassroots movement to raise awareness around climate change, will present the Unraveling and Turning: A Climate Change Cabaret at the State House on June 15, the inspiration of local impresarios Celina Moore and Peter Nielsen with support from Linda Patterson, organizer of a [...]
GMO Proponents versus Opponents
A Pitched Battle in the Legislature by Ken Russell In early May, the Vermont House approved a bill requiring labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Vermont is working to join Connecticut, which voted Monday June 4 to require such labeling, a practice currently followed by the European Union and over 50 countries [...]
Music, Beer, Food and Books
The Kellogg-Hubbard Library will host a Books & Brew book sale and picnic event later this month on Saturday, June 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. There should be plenty of light for the event, coming just one day after the summer solstice. The “beer garden” book sale will happen on the library’s lawn and [...]