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May 12, 2010
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Looking back to when Vermont helped give birth to the GOP.
Ladies’ Night Out chorus ensemble to perform “To Sing is to Fly”, May 11.
CSC men’s lacrosse team captures NAC Championship title.
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Vermont’s looming energy sinkhole
CVPS acquires Vt. Marble Power RUTLAND—Central Vermont Public Service announced May 4 that it will purchase the assets and service territory of the Vermont Marble Power Division of Omya Inc. for $33.2 million. Included in the sale are rights to serve about 890 customers in Proctor, including the Omya industrial facility in Florence, which will become CV's single-largest customer. Significantly, the sale also includes four hydroelectric facilities with a combined capacity of 18.1 megawatts. "This purchase will create economies of scale that will benefit all of our customers, and will lead to expansion of the generation output from the four Vermont Marble dams through increased investment," CVPS President Bob Young said. "It maintains Vermont control over the plants, which produce clean, reliable energy, and expands CV's role as the operator of the largest fleet of renewable hydroelectric generators in the state." Young said there would be significant benefits to the purchase: It continues the state-supported consolidation of
By John McClaughry newmarketpress@denpubs.com
See CVPS, page 12
Rutland woman arrested for heroin dealing RUTLAND—The Southern Vermont Drug Task Force over the past several months has conducted an investigation into the distribution of heroin in the Rutland area. The investigation revealed the heroin was readily available for sale by Holly Palmer, age 35, of Rutland City. Palmer was arrested without incident and was released on a citation. She is being charged with three felony counts of selling heroin and will appear in Rutland County Court June 14.
Rutland City’s recreation baseball season started last week with several teams playing at White's Field. Here the pitcher for the Knights of Columbus takes the mound as a member of Team Alderman looks on from second base. Photo Shawn Pemrick Photography
Holly Palmer
Police find missing Florida man’s car at inn RUTLAND TOWN—Robert Servian, age 61, was reported missing April 2 in Sarasota, Fla. Both he and his vehicle were entered into the National Crime Information Center by the Sarasota Police Department. The last communication received from Servain was in the form of an e-mail received by his wife March 30. Servain is described as 6 feet tall, 210 pounds, white hair, and blue eyes. There is no information about clothing he was wearing at the time of his disap-
despondent and possibly suicidal. She advised Vermont State Police that she is unaware of anyone who he might be meeting or who would have picked him up in the Rutland area. Upon responding to the Holiday Inn, a trooper found Servain’s 2010 white Honda two-door, with Florida registration 355LIL, parked in the northeast lot of the Holiday Inn in Rutland Town. Inspection of the vehicle did not show any signs of
See MISSING, page 9
Robert Servian
See SINKHOLE, page 12
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pearance. Servain’s wife advised that he had lost 35 pounds over the last year, but did not describe him as being in good physical condition. She advised that he used to be a hiker, who had done a lot of hiking along the Appalachian Trial, and might be in the Rutland area. She advised that he had not done this in a long time. She further stated that he was born in New York but grew up in Connecticut. Servain’s wife feels that he is probably
MONTPELIER—A sizable and vocal group of Vermont energy activists may be pleased to see the state legislature shut down the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station. But they have no idea how to replace its energy and economic contribution to the state. Voting Yankee “off the island” will not get rid of the need for the 285 megawatts of dependable base load power that it delivers to Vermont utilities each year at bargain prices. Despite over $30 million extracted each year from electric ratepayers to finance Efficiency Vermont, energy savings from conservation are not likely to cancel the growth in electricity consumption as the region emerges from the recession. Where will the needed energy come from? Alternative energy activists say “wind power”, but proposed wind projects have already been stymied by local opposition in Londonderry, Sutton and Ira. A strong proposal for four turbines at the abandoned radar base atop of East Haven Mountain was killed off by a PSB requirement that the promoter spend tons of money to assess the potential threat to birds and bats. VELCO, the state's transmission utility, estimates that inland wind turbines deliver about 15 percent of their rated capacity. That means the New England ISO power grid operators have