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Claremont Seizes FairPoint Building for Failure to Pay Taxes

Friday, May 24, 2013

Claremont — The city has begun taking properties for back taxes and the first one on the list of 19 was the current FairPoint Communications office building on Broad Street. FairPoint did not make any tax payments in 2009 and under state law, a municipality is required to take a property when taxes are delinquent more than three years. In a report to the City Council earlier this month, Finance …

Vt. to NRC: How Do We Get Rid of Waste?

Friday, May 24, 2013

Montpelier — Attorneys general in Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut announced yesterday they are petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a more thorough environmental review of storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste at plant sites. It was another effort by states to turn up the pressure on federal agencies to keep a promise Washington made 30 years ago but has yet to …

Vt. Leader In N.E. Economy

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Hartford, Conn. — As New England recovers from the worst recession in decades, Massachusetts and Vermont are posting the strongest gains while Rhode Island and Maine lag, an economists’ group said yesterday. External factors such as Europe’s recession, which is damaging markets for exports from New England businesses, and federal spending cuts, which are reducing sales by the region’s defense contractors, are crimping …