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Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury now has Vermont's largest school solar array.

The president of Middlebury College will be stepping down in 2015, at the end of the next academic year.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Wednesday announced that $716 million in regional economic development grants has been awarded around the state. The Mid-Hudson Valley region is on the receiving end of nearly $60 million for 87 projects.

Governor Peter Shumlin is encouraging people who are eligible to sign up for health insurance through the Vermont Health Connect system.

A two-year study, released by Harvard University, says current development trends threaten forests in Massachusetts.

   In a first of its kind study for an entire state researchers used sophisticated computer models to look acre by acre how four different scenarios of development, land conservation and timber-harvesting would play out over the next 50 years.  David Foster, director of  Harvard Forest- the university’s outdoor research lab-said the study comes at a critical time.

New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie was in Burlington Wednesday night as the keynote at a Vermont Republican Party fundraiser. The event and access to Christie were closed to the media. The move sparked criticism from local television and newspapers and a commentary from a former Washington, D.C. reporter. 

Environmental groups are weighing in on proposed regulations by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to halt the spread of invasive species. 

The New York State Department of Conservation is currently accepting comments on proposed regulations that identify specific invasive species of plants, algae, animals, insects, and fungi and supply language on how those species should be handled to halt or limit their spread, which cause harm to native species in New York and beyond.

The effort to go green in one upstate New York county got a big boost today as groundbreaking legislation that will change the way many fast food chains distribute their products was signed.

Local officials gathered with advocates for families of missing children to mark the launch of a new program to help find Capital Region missing persons.

At the DeCrescente Distributing Company in Mechanicville, Capital District Republican Assemblyman James Tedisco, Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy, and others announced “Coasters for Hope,” a new pilot program to help find missing persons in the Capital Region.

Economic development groups in western Massachusetts are taking steps to insure the final assembly of the state’s rail cars happens in their region.