Paul Tomasi of the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District shows the signs on Monday to the Derby Select Board that will explain the collection of food scraps as compost at
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Photo: Grant Spates owner of Spates Construction at his sugarhouse. Courtesy photo from Grant Spates.
by Joyce Marcel, Vermont Business Magazine People say it s hard to make a living in Vermont, but it s even harder to make a living in the Northeast Kingdom. The north country has always been the state s economic stepchild, rich in natural resources but poor in population and almost everything else.
You have to be stubborn and determined to make your business thrive there. And general contractor Grant Spates, the owner of Spates Construction, Inc, is making it work, and on his own terms, too.
DERBY â The largest town in Orleans County generates a fifth of the calls handled by the Vermont State Police barracks in Derby.
And that number is on the rise in a town without its own police force, says Orleans County Sheriff Jennifer Harlow.
Harlow on Monday asked the Derby Select Board to boost the amount of time her deputies will work for Derby next year to 80 hours.
Derby really needs the equivalent of two deputies working full time each week to cover the town, Harlow said at the select boardâs hybrid in-person and remote meeting.
If not 80 hours, she recommended that the select board double the number of hours, from 30 to 60. That would dedicate one full-time deputy to Derby and the equivalent of a part-time deputy during the late afternoon and evening hours.