( This law was so successful at collecting revenue that Vermont did not impose any taxes until 1781.

Clinton, who considered Vermont to still be a part of New York, did not want to honor the actions of the Vermont tribunals ; Stark, who had custody of the men, disagreed with Clinton.

Tony Klein, chairman of the Vermont House Natural Resources and Energy Committee asked the NRC about the pipes at a hearing in 2009 and the NRC did not even know they existed.

She attended Goddard Seminary in Barre, Vermont ( which later became Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont ) and Syracuse University ( in New York ), but apparently did not matriculate.

Jackson worked as an NBC page at the network's Rockefeller Center studios and did summer stock in Vermont before landing a small role as the mysterious, silent ghost Daphne Harridge on the 1960s supernatural daytime quasi-soap opera Dark Shadows.

These radical platforms in such states as Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, and Vermont usually called for the divorce of the government from slavery, the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Laws, and no more slave states, as did platforms in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Massachusetts when radical influence was high.

The decision in that case allowed physicians to legally mail birth control devices and information ; however, it applied only to New York, Connecticut, and Vermont ; birth control did not become legal for married couples throughout the United States until the 1965 Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, and did not become legal for unmarried couples throughout the United States until the 1972 Supreme Court decision Eisenstadt v. Baird.

In May 2009, the vice-president of operations at Vermont Yankee told the PSB during the reliability review that he did not believe there was any radioactively contaminated underground piping at the plant, but that he would check and respond to the panel.

" Reilly also stated that he did not expect the price of electricity in Vermont to increase if Vermont Yankee closed.

The people of Vermont took part in the American Revolution and considered themselves Americans, even if Congress did not recognize the jurisdiction.

While the Continental Congress did not allow a seat for Vermont, William Samuel Johnson, representing Connecticut, was engaged by Vermont to promote its interests.

In October 1862, Major Proctor was promoted to the colonelcy of the 15th Vermont Volunteers, and participated in the Gettysburg Campaign, but was stationed in the rear and did not participate in the battle.

At that time, Vermont was holding itself out as the Republic of Vermont and did not become a state until 1791.

Mrs. Knox later regretted the sale, claiming she had not seen how Loeb handled his Vermont newspapers, and claiming that Loeb did not mention the involvement of the Ridder family.

In New England, the opposite trend took place ; the former Republican strongholds of Maine and Vermont became solidly Democrat, as did formerly Republican areas of New Jersey, New York, and other states.

Post applied for a scholarship at the University of Vermont, not knowing that the university did not accept female students.

A 1990 article in the Rutland Herald characterized the reaction in Vermont to Flanders ’ s role in the McCarthy censure as “ sour .” It concludes that Flanders ’ s convictions did not necessarily reflect the priorities of his constituency, which regarded the issue as “ not our problem .”

Meanwhile, Colonel J. Wolcott Phelps, commanding at Newport News, would send detachments from his own 1st Vermont Infantry and Colonel David W. Wardrop's 4th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment ( 90 – day Militia ) under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Peter T. Washburn to approach Little Bethel from the opposite side.

I've got a Qwip machine up here in Vermont and one in Florida, so Stan and I can send graphics all up and down the East Coast of the United States.

Following a small uproar, the Great Lake status was rescinded on March 24 ( although Vermont universities continue to receive funds to monitor and study the lake ).

The first person to receive monthly retirement benefits was Ida May Fuller of Brattleboro, Vermont.

Although the highest summits of the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and Mount Katahdin in Maine receive over 2000 mm of precipitation per year, some of these locations have alpine environments and whether or not temperate rain forests exist in these regions is subject to debate.

She was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Dartmouth College, and also received honorary degrees from the University of Nebraska, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Smith, Williams, Ohio State University, and the University of Vermont.

Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia are considered the most favorable states for net metering, as they are the only states to receive an " A " rating from the Network for New Energy Choices in 2011.

After spending three years at the University of Vermont, Smith went on to receive a bachelors degree in Economics in 1992 from the University of South Carolina where he studied with Robert W. Clower, the former Managing Editor of the American Economics Review and Rhodes Scholar.

They flee Cambodia with Loung for Thailand, there they receive sponsorship by an American church to live in Vermont.

" Bennington Triangle " is a phrase coined by New England author Joseph A. Citro during a public radio broadcast in 1992 to denote an area of southwestern Vermont within which a number of persons went missing between 1920 and 1950.

What is now known as the Vermont Republic was not granted any formal recognition, but the territory had all of the trappings of government, including courts, an assembly, and even its own currency.

During the time of the Vermont Republic, the government issued its own coinage and currency, and operated a postal service.

During this period the CCC was called in to provide disaster relief following 1937 floods in New York, Vermont and the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, and response and clean-up after the 1938 hurricane in New England.

Vermont historian Samuel Williams called it " an act which for its savage barbarity is probably without parallel in the legislation of any civilized country ".

A grade of syrup not for table use, called commercial or Grade C, is also produced under the Vermont system.

In response to the court's decision in Baker and the legislature's enactment of civil unions, opponents of the legal recognition of same-sex unions formed an opposition organization called Take Back Vermont.

In Vermont, the county seats are called shire towns.

It was first called Bucklins Corners, after a hotel, and later called " Vermont ", a designation stemming from the source of many early settlers, until 1876.

In 1841, W. H. Farrar, who had recently arrived from Vermont, started a small pottery business in the town of Geddes, New York called Farrar Pottery for making salt-glazed stoneware, an American ceramic product around since colonial times.

Mount Monadnock is often called Grand Monadnock, to differentiate it from other Vermont and New Hampshire peaks with " Monadnock " in their names.

Jessup's participation in the organization results in the publication of a periodical called The Vermont Vigilance, in which he writes editorials decrying Windrip's abuses of power.

His great-uncle, Benjamin, Jr., was both a prominent citizen and early mayor of London, Ontario, but was later indicted for fraud and fled to Vermont ; during his tenure in London he built a mansion called Oakwood, which currently serves as the head office of the Info-Tech Research Group.

The town was first settled around 1788, first by a group called the " Vermont Sufferers.

St. Albans is called " The Maple Syrup Capital of the World ," and in late April sponsors the annual Vermont Maple Festival.

The famous poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier had called for such laws and the Whittier controversy heightened angry pro-slavery reactions to the Vermont law.

* Different names for the town and the vampire ; ' Salem's Lot is compared to " Momson " ( mentioned in the final text of the book as a Vermont town whose residents mysteriously vanished in 1923 ), and Barlow is called " Sarlinov "

Democratic politicians responding to Santorum's remarks included Former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean, who called on Santorum, " to resign from his post as Republican Conference chairman.

On 28 February 1838, after having crossed the border from Vermont, Nelson, along with 300 to 400 Patriotes from a secret group called Frères Chasseurs, distributed copies of a declaration of independence written by Nelson ’ s brother, Robert Nelson.

The Old Constitution House in Windsor, Vermont, where the 1777 constitution was signed, is also called the birthplace of Vermont.

Because of vehement objections from New York, which had conflicting property claims, the Continental Congress declined to recognize Vermont, then called the New Hampshire Grants.

The Vermont Republic was called the " reluctant republic " because many early citizens favored political union with the United States rather than independence.

These negotiations, which are sometimes called the Haldimand Affair because of his participation, involved brothers Ira and Ethan Allen, and were promoted to see if Vermont could be convinced to become a new British province, which would then provide a new avenue for attack against the southern portions of New York and New England.