Top Stories for Tuesday August 6, 2013

The Streets & Roadways of Home: Sharing Memories with Betty Lebeau Myers
By Cookie Steponaitis
Betty Myers has called Addison County her home since her birth in 1932 and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Sharing Memories of growing up in the Champlain Valley brings a smile to her lips and stories about dancing, fun and being together as a family.
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Green Mountain Ice Cream

While trodding on the paths of Addison County Field Days this next week keep your eyes open for a sweet spot in the action called Green Mountain Ice Cream. And, for those who know Dan Norris, the owner of Dan’s Starter Shop in Orwell, Vermont, there is the certainty that somehow this starts with the story of a motor, and indeed it does.
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GMP Unveils New Two-Year Plan to Minimize Customer Costs

Green Mountain Power in its on-going merger commitment to continually hold down costs for its customers, Green Mountain Power today unveiled a new two-year strategy to stabilize and minimize utility costs.
    The stabilization strategy is contained in a filing made today with the Vermont Public Service Board that endeavors to smooth out a $24 million increase in regional ISO-New England transmission costs and higher VELCO costs due to infrastructure investments to increase system reliability in Vermont. These costs, if not addressed, would have sharply driven up GMP customer rates by at least four percent for the year beginning on Oct. 1, 2013.
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