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November 4, 2009
A New Market Press Publication
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Couple gets into the Halloween spirit on their wedding day.
New dentist office opens on Route 7 in Rutland.
All the scores and stats of the past week’s games.
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The incredible shrinking Vermont job! RUTLAND/MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont labor force continued to shrink in September as 1,900 more unemployed Vermonters stopped looking for work. In May, the labor force reached a peak of 361,000, but has been falling since then. Last month it stood at 356,900. The labor force includes everyone defined as either employed or unemployed. Unemployed means an individual must have looked for work sometime in the past four weeks. When workers stop looking for work, they are no longer considered part of the labor force. The number of workers who give up looking for work, not surprisingly, rises during recessions.1 Unemployed workers per job opening in the Northeast continued to increase in August providing further justification for workers to feel discouraged. Vermont’s Department of Labor reported the official seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was down slightly in September to 6.7 percent and that employment also was down. Vermont continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in
See JOBS, page 11
Landlord slapped with lead-paint penalties RUTLAND — Rutland landlord James Theodore, doing business as JTT Properties, will pay Vermont $14,000 in civil penalties for the filing of false lead paint compliance documents for five Rutland properties and will spend at least $7,500 in lead hazard reduction improvements at the properties he owns as a part of a settlement with the Office of Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell. Theodore has also agreed to enroll the five Rutland properties into the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board’s Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program. “We appreciate that Mr. Theodore has taken steps to bring his properties into compliance with the law,” said Attorney General Sorrell. “But there is an expectation that Vermont’s landlords will be truthful and accurate when they file lead paint compliance documents with the State. His failure to do
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN — Workmen on the steeple of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Rutland appear a lot closer to heaven than the rest of us mortals. After more than a year of missing a portion of its venerable slate roof—lost due to age and the elements—the church is finally getting a new zucchetto—just in time for the wet winter season.
See LANDLORD, page 11
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