Vernon News

The gas drilling technique better known as fracking has not been proposed here and geologists say it's unlikely the state even has natural gas deposits.

The Vermont Attorney General's Office announced late Tuesday that long-time Vernon Town Clerk Sandy Harris did not misappropriate town funds.

After presenting the state's case in the Washington, D.C., District Court, Elizabeth Miller, commissioner of Vermont's Department of Public Service, said the judges seemed skeptical of a claim made by Entergy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding the Clean Water Act certificate for Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.

During Wednesday's Public Service Board meeting to schedule new hearings in Entergy's request for permission to continue operating Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon for another 20 years, Entergy representatives told the board they would need one-and-a-half years to present their case.

A man who is serving time for a conviction on one count of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child is suing both the Brattleboro Police Department and the Reformer.