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School stiffed by solar power company – A Windham County school district fears it won’t get paid by a solar power company that erected 2,160 solar panels at the NewBrook Elementary School in Newfane, the Brattleboro Reformer reports. ISun, which declared bankruptcy this summer, owes the school district $26,000 for a bill due this June. “There is a very strong chance that we will not ever get paid from the contract we have over the solar field,” Windham Central Supervisory Union Assistant Business Manager Heidi Russ told the board this week. “I think we know that the company is deeply in debt … and the purchaser of the solar field does not have to keep the obligation of the contract. So we’re sort of in a holding period.” The 500 KW solar array began producing power in 2018. The plan was for it to produce revenue and provide a learning opportunity for the students, the Reformer news story stated. Killington and Pico sold to locals – Killington ski resort, the ‘Beast of the East,’ has gone independent, today’s Journal-Opinion reports. “For the first time in 40 years, Killington will be an independently run resort after a group of investors led by Michael Ferri and Phill Gross entered a purchase and sale agreement Wednesday for a majority interest in both Killington and Pico Mountain from Powdr Corporation,” reports New England Ski Journal. Powdr remains a minority owner, per a news release. The sale is the first of several Powdr has planned for the coming weeks, according to the Storm Skiing Journal. It plans to sell ski resorts in Oregon, Colorado, and British Columbia. It will retain its interests in Snowbird in Utah and Copper Mountain in Colorado. Uncommon Jam Sunday – The 10th annual UnCommon Jam will be held on Aug. 25 from 1-6 p.m. on the Newbury Common. The Clement Brothers Band from Massachusetts will lead off the show. These identical twins bring their vocal and instrumental blends based on influences of bluegrass, folk, rock, jazz, roots and classical through the years. Then, Ted Mortimer will perform at the Jam with his fifth different band, the YaYa’s, for a spirited and funky mix of original music and cover tunes. And finally, the Burlington duo of Dwight and Nicole will wrap up the show. Steve Morse of the Boston Globe raves “Dwight and Nicole are a tour-de-force that demand much wider success. Poignant, hard driving … and heavenly.” Local duo Randy Wales and Phyllis Shea will play on the small stage between sets. Italian, BBQ and Korean cuisine will be the featured food vendors, with ice cream, desserts, and assorted beverages — including a beer garden with craft beers also available, so please leave your coolers at home and enjoy the food and drinks on the Common. For more information visit www.courtstreetarts.org or call 802-866-3320. The cost to attend is $10 per person, with children 12 and under free. Child care centers growing in Addison County – The $120 million payroll tax to subsidize childcare is paying dividends for child care centers around Middlebury, the August 15 Addison Independent reports. The Congregational Church in Middlebury has launched the 24-slot Red Clover Childcare Center. The Otter Creek Child Care Center has created 77 new slots (now up to 139). MJCC has upped its toddler and infant programs (the latter being the most sought-after commodity, the Addy Indy says). Also, child care operators have raised pay. “Our pay scale used to be like this,” said one operator holding her fingers close together. “With Act 76, we’ve been able to move that scale pretty wide.” And, 65% of her staff are working towards a degree or credential, she said. |
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Beautiful Vermont landscape image. Worthless solar panels. When snow covered which can happen in October, no electron flow. This is the image that Flatlanders will see when they desire to buy property—-not in my back yard they often say.
While there are lessons to be learned here, solar panels are not useless. They continue to make power all winter. They do belong on rooftops and parking lots, not open fields. It is better to own them yourself than fall for the “no money down” schemes.
Sell the panels, and turn it into a community garden, in which the students can learn to feed themselves. Better diet than “Lunchables”.
is this property for the solar panels owned by the tax payers/// another public private business failure/// now, what happens to the solar panels and will they need to be removed///
Send them over to one of Bernie’s houses he’s into that green stuff, or that collage his wife ran into the ground, they can store them.
See above.
Re childcare: When you’re a Democrat, and prices are exploding (due to Democrat policies, but let’s overlook that, OK?), what do you do??
Why, you create a tax to subsidize the high prices, silly!! And bonus: it buys votes with voters own money!!
Yep, the ol’ robbing (and punching and fisting) Peter to pay (well-connected) Paul never fails!!
Well, at least not while Peter still has a pulse. But he is looking pretty palid…
Are childcare workers now considered state workers, since much of their paycheck comes from taxes??
There is no equity in requiring tax payers to pay for the child care expenses of incoming residents. I was forced to work part time when I had my daughter because day care was so expensive. I arranged a cooperative arrangement with another mother where we watched each other’s child. This allowed us both to work part time with no day care costs. It was a win win situation for our families. This type of day care coop could work on a larger scale. Please remember when you vote in November that subsidized means that the tax payer foots the bill.
The copious amounts of solar fields in Vermont will turn into skeleton structures after leaching toxic byproducts into the soils. Nothing will be grown there – all will be turned into EPA clean up sites (if the EPA survives the collapse.) The rooftop panels will disintergrate and cost thousands for roof repairs, electrical repairs, and hazardous waste disposal fees. Along with the wind turbines that can’t be recycled, caused more damage and loss of habitat than any other industrial sized machine, the climate activists have much to be proud of and China thanks each and every one of you for your pure ignorance and money.
Greenwashing capitalism… scam from beginning to end… and lets not talk about the upstream costs in human child slave labor, the open pit mining, the pollution from same…but not in OUR backyard… snooze… so its okay… but over there where we GOT the slaves to begin with, test our biological weapons aka vaccines, and in general interfere with everything those people hold dear… to what is happening in Sudan AGAIN… desertification and starvation… yeah. Let’s go with fascist control of our energy choices.
Vermonters have long led the way on efficient, redundancies for electricity and heat… ask us. We show up when our neighbors need help from lack of same as well… how do YOU check on elderly or disabled neighbor in a storm (pick ANY storm — they ALL knock out power now)…? asking for a …neighbor I don’t know, don’t share the same views with but… I know if he suffers, so suffer we all…
SunCommon co-presidents, James Moore and Duane Peterson, former Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) solar lobbyists, sold their privately held Waterbury solar company, SunCommon, to iSun for $40 million after they convinced Vermont legislators to create taxpayer funded solar subsidies. Never mind that they started SunCommon while they were still on the VPIRG board.
Yes. They took the money and ran. And ISun is now fleecing Vermont taxpayers yet again by stiffing a Vermont public school.
Call it money laundering, crony capitalism, corporatism, or fascism. Moore and Peterson should be investigated for fraud.
After all, Johnson & Johnson, the consumer products and healthcare giant that manufactured generic opioid medications, and drug wholesalers, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson, agreed to pay a combined $26 Billion for their affiliation with the opioid crisis.
Why, then, shouldn’t the State of Vermont sue Moore and Peterson. At the very least, iSun should sue them for allegedly misrepresenting the financial projections they submitted to iSun and the banks to fund the SunCommon sale.
But I forgot. This is Vermont. Be it the $16.5 million taxpayer funded EB-5 Jay Peak fraud case, lobbied for by our esteemed U.S. senators (Leahy and Sanders), U.S. Representative (at the time), Peter Welch, former governor Peter Shumlin, and others, graft and corruption have become the status quo.