MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Entergy Corp. wants more than $4.6 million in legal fees to cover what it says were its costs in fighting off the Vermont's effort to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.
Lyme Disease Report Pinpoints Risk Areas CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
Today, the Vermont State Indoor Track and Field Championships will be held at Norwich University in Northfield. The St. Johnsbury Academy boys are poised to make a strong run at a championship. "We're basically about a couple of points of being dead even with South Burlington," SJA coach Chip Langmaid said. Regarding how to use his athletes, Langmaid said, "It's very tricky." LRU will be led by seniors Matt Lyon (sprints), Canaan McKenzie (hurdles), and Hannah Hahn (sprints, jumps). LI, led by middle-distance specialist Tucker Morehouse, will bring a small, young, but talented squad to the event. Field events begin at 10:30, running events at 11.
For half a dozen years, now, Vermonters have been whipsawed by Peter Shumlin's irrational passion to close Vermont Yankee. Shumlin (first as a senator, then as governor) has railed psychotically that Vermont Yankee is evil and must be exorcised at any cost.
ST. JOHNSBURY -- A Bradford man, Gregory Torrey, 25, denied felony charges of sexual assault and lewd and lascivious conduct with a child during his arraignment Monday morning in Caledonia Superior Court-Criminal Division.
Dr. Brigitte Dargis recently joined the staff at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital's Corner Medical office. For the past six years, Dargis practiced as a family practitioner at the White Mountain Community Health Center in North Conway, N.H.
