Tuesday, 6/2/09
NEWS:
‘Not the Person He'd Said He Was'
Boston -- The man she knew as Clark Rockefeller wooed her with his sharp intellect, charisma and stories about his work helping struggling nations. See full story
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NEWS:
Upper Valley Senators Back N.H. Budget That Expands Gaming
West Lebanon -- Two Upper Valley Democrats yesterday said they likely would vote for a budget proposal in the state Senate that would allow up to 13,000 slot machines in New Hampshire despite strong opposition to expanded gambling in much of the area. See full story
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SPORTS:
Girls' Tennis Crown Goes to Portsmouth
Concord -- Here's the sum total of Hanover High girls tennis coach Glen Eastridge's scouting report of Portsmouth before yesterday's NHIAA Class I championship match: We’re good. They’re deep. See full story
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CLOSE-UP:
At Grantham Village School: A Year
Of Gathering and One Day of Packing
Stacks of erasers and construction paper and piles of glue sticks and three-ring binders greeted Grantham Village School students in their classrooms on Friday. Each one grabbed a donated backpack to stuff it full with a sampling of the assembled booty, the culmination of the school's yearlong “stuff-a-backpack project.” See full story
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EDITORIAL:
Two Views Of Yankee
Douglas Bets on a Longer License
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Overall, Gov. Jim Douglas appears satisfied with the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, which provides one-third of the state's power at reasonable rates. The Legislature's Democratic majority, by contrast, isn’t so enamored of the 37-year-old Vernon plant or its owner, Entergy Corp., which has requested a 20-year license renewal when its current license expires in 2012. The difference in attitude goes some way toward explaining why the Legislature, for the second year in a row, tried to ensure that Vermonters won't get stuck paying for the cleanup of the site if the plant stops operating in 2012 and why the governor, for the second year in a row, vetoed the Legislature’s bill. If Douglas gets his way, the nuclear plant will be a big part of Vermont’s energy future until at least 2032. Decommissioning, in other words, is a long way off. No need to talk about the details now. See full story
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For complete story, see today's Valley News
Douglas Vetoes Budget
Montpelier -- Gov. Jim Douglas yesterday became the first governor in Vermont history to veto a state budget bill, setting the stage for lawmakers to try to override his veto in a special session that already had been set for today.
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NEWS: Gile Hill Developers Ask Hanover to Forgive Sewer Bill
Hanover -- Developers of Gile Hill, the town's only large-scale affordable housing development, asked the Selectboard last night to tear up a six-figure sewer bill that threatens to further undermine the project's already shaky finances.
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NEWS: Obama: GM Help Vital to Economy
Washington -- President Obama laid out his case yesterday for committing billions of dollars more to the rescue of General Motors, arguing that the nationalization of the industrial giant was necessary to bolster the foundering U.S. economy.
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NEWS: Airbus Lost, 228 on Board
Rio De Janeiro -- An Air France jet with 228 people on a flight to Paris vanished over the Atlantic Ocean after flying into towering thunderstorms and sending an automated message that the electrical system had failed. A vast search began yesterday, but all aboard were feared killed.
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