Saturday, January 22, 2011

Skiing the Boston Globe Slopes

Here are some trails; hit the ones you like, dear readers.

Tourism app shows winter activities

N.H., Vt. suspend fees for trail use 

"Football coach accused of embezzlement

A high school football coach was accused of embezzlement after money he collected for players’ sweatshirts ended up in his bank account. Steve LaLonde, 48, of Mount Anthony Union High, will be arraigned Tuesday. Detective Sergeant David Rowland told the Bennington Banner that police noticed that $1,725 raised was in LaLonde’s account, instead of a school activities account. Rowland said the money was wired in two installments to Texas to pay LaLonde’s rent. LaLonde has returned most of the money. LaLonde said yesterday that he didn’t have an attorney and declined to comment further (Boston Globe November 14 2010)." 

I thought we were going skiing?

"Not that Vermont was alone among New England states in seeing Democratic gains. Democrats picked up a governorship in Connecticut and kept overwhelming majorities in legislatures in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island....  

I feel like there was a party and I was not invited.

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Also see: Vt. governor-elect names his health care team  

Globe Editorial Vermont: Creating a singular health system

I can't imagine this is good for health (and here I am living 25 miles downriver).

"Mishaps close two nuclear plants" by Lisa Rathke, Associated Press / November 9, 2010

MONTPELIER — Unplanned shutdowns an hour apart at nuclear plants in Vermont and New York — one because of a small leak of radioactive water inside the plant, the other because of a transformer explosion — show the challenge of managing aging nuclear plants, a specialist said.

Both plants are 38 years old and owned by Entergy Corp., which is based in New Orleans. No one was hurt at either plant, and each was expected to be back online quickly.

In Vermont, Entergy determined that the source of the leak was a 2-inch metal access plug on a pipe that had been welded over in 1972. The pipe was part of a closed-loop system that feeds water to the nuclear reactor, where it is heated and sent to spin turbines that make electricity, said plant spokesman Larry Smith.

The weld was leaking about 60 drops a minute, he said. Repairs were expected to take 24 hours, he said....

The leak is the latest problem for the Vermont Yankee plant, which has been beset with technical problems.

In January, officials announced that tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that has been linked to cancer when ingested in large amounts, had turned up in a test well on plant property. Later, other radioactive substances were found in groundwater and soil.

Also in January, legislators learned that personnel had misled them and state regulators by saying that the plant did not have the type of underground piping that would leak tritium....   

Related: Around New England: No Veracity in Vermont

The Boston Globe Can Not Say a Lie

Also see: Around New England: Vermont Votes Yankee Down  

It was too soon to tell what had caused the transformer explosion Sunday at the Indian Point 2 reactor, a plant north of New York City that was built in 1972. No one was hurt and no radioactive material released....

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission called the two shutdowns a coincidence and said agency inspectors were monitoring repair plans at the Vermont Yankee plant in Vernon and at Indian Point 2....

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Related: Town plans in case N-plant shuts down

The sooner the better.  

Also see:

Mourners celebrate life of slain 78-year-old

RelatedVermont Vanishing

Vacuuming Up Vermont

Elderly couple die in early morning fire

Mother avoids trial on marijuana charges

Trial delayed for father in baby’s death

Sons of Vt. author settle fight over her $2m estate

Vt. judge urged to shed light on use of cellphone tracking data

Vt., DirecTV customers to get refund in accord 

Wounded bald eagle back in wild in Vt.

State seeks information on bat activity 

Three young people accused of calf theft  

Plan working to restore Batten Kill trout

130 Guardsmen return from Afghanistan

Vt. native back home to head region’s Border Patrol Sector

Vt. man charged in fatal car crash  

Man gets plea deal in fatal car wreck

Three rescued from Lake Champlain cave 

Champlain bridge is cause for celebration

Related: Halloween Leftovers  

Casper's Hometown

Happy 9/11 New Year, New York!

Vermont barber denies racism

Let's try the other side of the border:

Fire destroys 15 school buses parked in lot  

One killed, 5 injured in head-on collision

Missing man found safe, back with family

Ban on guns at State House repealed

GOP leaders hail gun OK in N.H. capitol 

Man killed in early-morning shooting

Parolee’s brother held on N.H. drug charges

Jury to hear confession in machete killing

Verdict upheld in N.H. murder

Hearing held on defendant’s evaluation

Chief justice to propose combining courts 

N.H. Republicans won’t try to repeal gay marriage law

N.H. Republican will ask to table gay marriage repeal bill  

Last horse logger lives on his own terms in N.H.

N.H. firefighter dies after ice rescue lesson

State warns winter hikers to be prepared

Related:  Globe Xmas Gifts: New Hampshire's State Bird

Let's try a different resort:   

Death of teenage skier being reviewed

Girl honored for life-saving efforts in fire

Former basketball star cast for ‘Survivor’

Trust opens $50m farmland campaign

Plan tackles Maine’s hospital debt

Bath Iron Works cutting jobs as work progresses 

Related: Turning LePage in Maine 

And at the bottom of the New England hill:

State plans to retry child molestation case

Teachers union chief won’t attend summit

Bill would lighten marijuana punishment   

Related: Sunday Globe Special: Chafing at Rhode Island Coverage 

Officers seek more leeway with teens at Conn. training school

UConn aims to end Spring Weekend parties

Fill-in mayor decides to run for full term 

Man pleads no contest in UConn football player’s death

Related:  Connecticut Cop Out 

Updates:   

Teen held in killing of aunt’s boyfriend


Detective in drug bust to be sentenced

Police say driver pulled over tried to flee