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WILTON The Select Board on Tuesday evening approved a $23,500 roofing bid by Arctic Roofing General Contractors based out of Lewiston for the water department’s building.
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Water and Sewer Department Superintendent Heinz Gossman presented six bids to the board with Arctic offering the least expensive option.
The public works quarterly report was also approved stating there were 23 winter-related events as of Feb. 9 with the highest snow accumulation recorded at 12 inches.
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The report also stated that Consolidated Communications will be transferring wires on Weld Road telephone poles, which prompted Selectperson Phil Hilton to ask about moving additional wires.
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MONTPELIER â How might a bill being drafted in a state House of Representatives committee succeed where other initiatives failed in finally bridging Vermontâs digital divide?
The game-changing element, according to the effortâs supporters, comes down to an essential Vermont quality: self-government, in the form of locally chartered, volunteer-staffed Communications Union Districts (CUDs), empowered by state law to behave as municipal utilities in finding solutions to the lack of high-speed service in rural areas.
The bill, which is being written by the state House Committee on Energy and Technology, would give a newly-created public authority the ability to lend funds to CUDs â the local government entities authorized by an act of the Legislature in 2019 to tackle a digital access gap affecting about one out of every five Vermonters.
Dennis Roland with his new Starlink satellite internet dish When Dennis Roland retired to the hills outside Waterbury in 2014, he knew part of the price of a slower pace of life would be slower internet service. He
didn t know it would practically cost him his sanity. As a chemist at a New Jersey pharmaceutical company, Roland had been used to collaborating with colleagues around the world using lightning-fast internet services. But from his new home at the end of an unpaved road in the Worcester Range, Roland s connection was agonizingly slow when he had it at all. It would go out for a couple weeks at a time, which drove me nuts! Roland exclaimed.
The Vermont House has worked productively in the last two weeks. We approved the annual budget adjustment bill (H.138), a mid-year technical adjustment to keep the stateâs fiscal year 2021 budget in balance.
H.138 passed with strong support and included investments to support the Legislatureâs continuing response to the coronavirus pandemic. Much of the adjustment was a result of reallocating unused Coronavirus Relief Funds, which were supposed to expire at the end of last year but were extended by the $900 billion relief bill passed by Congress last December.
COVID relief money was redirected to assistance for the hard-hit hospitality industry, for emergency food, hotel-housing for the homeless, and rental assistance, for Vermont State Colleges system support and for completion of broadband expansion projects.
Greater Mankato Growth, Inc. Invites Everyone to Attend the Annual Meeting with Keynote Speaker, Ross Bernstein
By Ashley Hanley|2021-02-09T07:56:22-06:00February 9th, 2021|
The public is invited to Greater Mankato, Inc.’s Annual Meeting, with Keynote Speaker Ross Bernstein, best-selling author of nearly 50 books, award-winning peak performance hall of fame business speaker who’s keynoted conferences from Fortune 500 companies on all seven continents and has been featured on CNN, ESPN, Fox News, and “CBS This Morning,” as well as in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today. With direct ties to Greater Mankato, Bernstein will share examples of inspirational stories and life lessons from the world of sports to provide an engaging presentation that translates a message of resiliency, collaboration, integrity and accountability to the business world and beyond.