WTSA News For Your Thursday, October 13th:
A Hydro-Quebec subsidiary is buying a company that operates 13 hydropower generating stations in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. HQI US Holding LLC’s $2 billion purchase of Great River Hydro LLC and its dams that produce 589 megawatts of electricity will provide Hydro-Quebec with the largest hydropower operation in New England. Hydro-Quebec has a long relationship with New England, providing hydropower to the region since the 1980s.Great River Hydro has about 100 workers, all of whom will be retained. The Hydro-Quebec subsidiary and Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. last year jointly purchased two hydroelectric generating stations in New York state for about $318 million.
Goodwill, a nationally known chain of thrift stores, is coming to Brattleboro. Goodwill of the Berkshires and Southern Vermont vice president Maryam Kamangar says the organization is hoping to open in the former Peebles Department store space on Putney Road by the end of November. A second round of hiring events will take place on the 17th and 18th at the First United Methodist church. The company is looking for a variety of full and part time jobs. Goodwill’s mission is to help community members with barriers to employment attain independence and self-sufficiency, gain confidence, and enhance their quality of life, through vocational education, work training, and other support services.
The Vermont Community Foundation announced its Spark Connecting Community grant program has awarded $116,571 to 41 organizations for projects that strengthen community connections. These grants were made possible by the partnership of generous Community Foundation fundholders who contributed through Giving Together, a unique program that shares grant proposals with fundholders and donors to provide an opportunity to co-fund projects throughout the state. Local recipients included the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center, Brattleboro Housing Opportunities, and the Root Social Justice Center.
New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen says the U S has a continued obligation to not only aid Ukraine amid Russia’s unprovoked invasion, but to be purposeful in calling out Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s targeted and insidious campaign to erase Ukrainian identity, culture, and history. The New Hampshire Senator says Russia’s war in Ukraine matters, not only for the future of Ukraine, but for liberal democracies worldwide. Shaheen is a senior member of the senate foreign relations committee.
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is reminding hunters of a regulation designed to help keep Vermont deer healthy by banning the use of any deer lure containing deer urine or other deer bodily fluids. The infectious agent of Chronic Wasting Disease, a fatal disease of deer, is a mutant protein or “prion” that can be passed in urine. This mutant protein can bind to soils and remain infectious for many years. Nearly all urine-based lures are produced in captive deer facilities, where CWD is most likely to occur. There is no way to test.
LOTTERY NUMBERS:
TRI STATE PICK 3 1-1-3
TRI STATE PICK 4 5-3-1-1-
TRI STATE GIMME 5 5-11-16-17-28
TRI STATE MEGABUCKS 8-21-22-23-37 MEGA BALL 1
POWERBALL 14-30-41-42-59 POWERBALL 6
MASS CASH 15-25-27-29-35
WTSA SPORTS:
Game 2 for the Yankees and Guardians is tonight in their American League Division Series. The Yankees won Game 1. Nestor Cortes is on the mound for the Yankees, first pitch is at 7:35.
Thursday Night Football has the Washington Commanders visiting the Chicago Bears. Kick-Off is at 8:15.