WTSA Afternoon news: * Brattleboro Police arrested three people in connection with a reported assault and robbery involving a firearm at a Ledgewood Heights residence. 33-year-old Robert Brennan was charged with assault and robbery, reckless endangerment and burglary; while 30-year-old John Winter and 27-year-old Cameron Waite were both charged with Burglary and aiding in the commission of a felony. All three were held at the Brattleboro Police Department and were scheduled to be arraigned in Windham Superior Court today. * The Windham County Economic Development Program is up and running and looking for applications with creative ideas that will help Windham County grow jobs and bolster the region’s economy. Eligible applicants for the grant program include municipalities, non-profit organizations and governmental agencies. The funds were made following a settlement that the State of Vermont negotiated in 2013 regarding the closure of the Entergy VY plant in Vernon. The funds, $2 million a year, will be administered by the Agency of Commerce and Community Development over the five year period through the Windham County Economic Development Program. The first round of applications will be due September 23. For more information and application documents, go to GoWindham.Vermont.Gov. * A hearing will take place Wednesday in a case interpreting Vermont’s Equal Pay Act of 2002. The case involves equal pay claims against the State of Vermont Department of Corrections and Department of Human Resources by three female workers who are paid thousands of dollars less than a male comparator for the same job. The hearing will take place starting at 9:00 at Vermont Superior Court in Montpelier. * A 34-year-old man charged with kidnapping a New Hampshire teen more than nine months ago appeared in court this afternoon. Nathanial Kibby of Gorham is charged with felony kidnapping of then 14-year-old Abigail Hernandez last October. She returned home the night of July 20. Kibby is being held on $1-million cash bail pending a probable cause hearing on August 12. * The Keene Public Works Department will be excavating to repair the sewer main on McKinley Street at the corner of West Street on Wednesday, which will require the Public Works Department to close McKinley Street to traffic between West Street and Fairview Street between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Please avoid this area, if possible, as traffic delays may occur near the work zone. * Several Brattleboro Town staff members will be required to attend an in-service training during the morning of July 30, 2014 from 8:30am to 10:00am. The opening time for the following offices will be delayed until 10:00am on Wednesday, July 30: Town Manager, Finance, Treasurer, Planning Services, Assessment office and Town Clerk. All other offices, including emergency services, will open and operate during regular business hours. * A judge has dismissed an embezzlement charge against a former Vermont fire chief stemming from a department-sponsored raffle. Joseph Hayes, who was Bennington Rural Fire Department Chief, had pleaded not guilty last year. Police investigated complaints that he had mishandled raffle tickets. Police said some people who won prizes never received them and that money paid for tickets was never turned over to the department. The judge said the affidavits did not contain anyone with personal knowledge of how much money was alleged to be missing. Also, the state could not show that more than $100 was missing to support the charge. Hayes still faces four counts of violating release conditions. Midday lottery numbers: TS Pick 3: 8-9-8 TS Pick 4: 2-9-6-3 Mass: 5-4-7-2
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:45:40 +0000
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