/tags/vernon Vernon en-US ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:44:39 GMT /vpr-news/2016-09-13/to-fill-void-left-by-vermont-yankee-vernon-looks-for-new-energy-projects Energy leaders from across the state met in Vernon this week to help the town plan for life after Vermont Yankee.Entergy Corporation closed VY inâ€� Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:44:39 GMT /vpr-news/2016-09-13/to-fill-void-left-by-vermont-yankee-vernon-looks-for-new-energy-projects Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2016-03-25/state-in-talks-with-vermont-yankee-over-groundwater-issues State officials were surprised last month when they found out Vermont Yankee was storing low-level radioactive water in swimming pools. But now, theâ€� Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:03:00 GMT /vpr-news/2016-03-25/state-in-talks-with-vermont-yankee-over-groundwater-issues Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2016-03-01/vernon-supports-natural-gas-plant-near-former-vy-reactor The town of Vernon strongly supports a plan to build a natural gas power plant near the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor.Residents on Town Meetingâ€� Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:36:14 GMT /vpr-news/2016-03-01/vernon-supports-natural-gas-plant-near-former-vy-reactor Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2015-12-23/towns-set-to-lose-vermont-yankee-emergency-planning-money Seven Windham County towns that have been used to receiving emergency planning money from Vermont Yankee will have to write budgets this year without thatâ€� Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:30:30 GMT /vpr-news/2015-12-23/towns-set-to-lose-vermont-yankee-emergency-planning-money Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2015-12-16/vermont-yankee-says-it-will-move-spent-fuel-ahead-of-schedule Entergy Vermont Yankee says it wants to move its spent nuclear fuel into dry cask storage in 2017, two years earlier than originally planned.The companyâ€� Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:15:09 GMT /vpr-news/2015-12-16/vermont-yankee-says-it-will-move-spent-fuel-ahead-of-schedule Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2015-11-19/consultant-says-investors-are-lining-up-for-vernon-natural-gas-plant As Vernon continues to head toward a referendum on siting a natural gas power plant in town, investors with serious money are waiting to see how the voteâ€� Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:33:05 GMT /vpr-news/2015-11-19/consultant-says-investors-are-lining-up-for-vernon-natural-gas-plant Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2015-11-13/vy-panel-backs-up-more-local-say-in-nrc-rulemaking An advisory panel that was set up to gather and share information on the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant wants communities toâ€� Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:00:26 GMT /vpr-news/2015-11-13/vy-panel-backs-up-more-local-say-in-nrc-rulemaking Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2015-10-29/vermont-yankee-wants-to-use-decommissioning-fund-to-pay-its-property-tax Entergy Vermont Yankee wants to use money from its decommissioning trust fund to pay a property tax bill it received from Vernon.When VY was generatingâ€� Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:48:03 GMT /vpr-news/2015-10-29/vermont-yankee-wants-to-use-decommissioning-fund-to-pay-its-property-tax Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2015-10-22/proposed-pipeline-wouldnt-run-through-vermont-but-could-bring-a-plant-to-vernon Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of national energy giant Kinder Morgan, will file an application for a 420-mile natural gas pipeline nextâ€� Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:28:28 GMT /vpr-news/2015-10-22/proposed-pipeline-wouldnt-run-through-vermont-but-could-bring-a-plant-to-vernon Howard Weiss-Tisman /vpr-news/2014-11-18/vernon-board-nixes-complaints-about-select-board-chair More than 40 Vernon residents turned out for their town select board meeting Monday. Many said they’d come to air frustrations with the board and with theâ€� Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:31:41 GMT /vpr-news/2014-11-18/vernon-board-nixes-complaints-about-select-board-chair Susan Keese