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Area Residents Report Seeing Fireball in Vermont Sky
Loud booms and a massive fireball created quite the light and sound show on Sunday evening. Witnessed by thousands of residents throughout the Northeast, on Tuesday it was confirmed that the Earth-shaking eruption was indeed a meteor. Experts say it was no bigger than a 10 pound bowling ball, but packed the punch of over 400 pounds of TNT.
According to NASA, there were reports of Capital Region residents witnessing it, but folks about an hour or so outside the immediate area had the most reported accounts of the red hot fireball.
The meteor that exploded over parts of Vermont and the Northeast was relatively small in size but the eruption it created was anything but diminutive. Some residents in Saratoga Springs, according to Space.com say they saw it, but the majority of eyewitness accounts seem to have come from Northern Vermont, particularly in Burlington and areas southeast of that location.
Ryan Ferris In September 2019, Ryan Ferris opened his new emergency medical services company, now called Garnet Health. Six months later, the business nearly flatlined. Why? Its customer base virtually disappeared. Garnet s ambulances and medical crews are licensed and equipped like those of any EMS rescue squad in Vermont, but they don t respond to 911 calls. Instead, they transport patients from one medical facility to another throughout New England and northern New York, provided those patients start or finish their trips in Vermont. When the pandemic hit, the hospitals didn t move patients unless it was absolutely necessary, explained Ferris, Garnet s cofounder, president and CEO. In the EMS industry, you don t make money unless you have billable services, and billable services means patients on board.
Vermont’s state colleges poised to adopt unification plan for survival’s sake
Modified: 2/21/2021 9:15:01 PM
Trustees of the Vermont State Colleges are poised to endorse a plan Monday in which all three of the system’s four-year schools would eventually merge into one “Vermont State University.”
The consolidation of Northern Vermont University, Castleton University, and Vermont Technical College under one common accreditation is part of a sweeping plan to make good on the system’s promise to transform itself in exchange for extra help from the state.
“It will be more student-focused, it will serve the state better, and it will get us to a place where we’re on a sounder financial footing,” state colleges Chancellor Sophie Zdatny said Friday.
Johnson voters will elect two selectboard members on Town Meeting Day, and both of them will be newcomers, since incumbents Kyle Nuse and Doug Molde opted not to run again.