Vermont Golf 2007-01-04

The 13 grants were made through the new Fund for Tourism Marketing Initiatives (FTMI) program, which provides grants to help organizations and businesses build or expand events, marketing programs, advertising campaigns and public relations programs that hold significant potential for measurable increases in out-of-state travelers to Vermont.

And ldquo;The economic impact of travel and tourism is crucial to a healthy economy in Vermont, and rdquo; said Gov. Jim Douglas. and ldquo;Supporting private sector marketing initiatives will benefit Vermonters and diversify the state and rsquo;s tourism portfolio. and rdquo;

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Before her second giant slalom run at the NCAA Division I ski championships in Steamboat Springs, Colo. , Abbi Lathrop decided to be aggressive. After the first run, she held a slight lead over Middleburys Megan Hughes. Her best giant slalom finish of the season was a fourth place at the University of Vermont carnival on Feb. 4, so why not be aggressive

Wasnt the best day for golfers, with water all over Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro. But Waterville and Winslow both adapted to the conditions well enough to win the team state titles. Watervilles Class A title was its first since 1995, while Winslows Class B championship was its first ever.

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He was a natural teacher and instructor, especially in the game of golf," U-32 boys hockey coach Jim Segar said of Kemp. "He was taking a year off from school prior to playing down south, and you look at him as someone who wanted to teach. His goal was to be a teaching pro, and he was also a referee and did a lot of coaching with CVSA with pee-wees and bantams. He did a lot of giving back to the community at such an early age. "

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At the Ski Company in Marshalls Plaza, DeWitt, manager Nate Fox observed that "people are still in good spirits despite the weather circumstance. " He noted some customers have trips planned to Vermont or out West.

At the closed Four Seasons Golf and Ski Center east of Fayetteville Tuesday afternoon, operations manager Bill Hane joked that he was about to start building an ark.

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UPC Vermont Wind hopes it will be successful in obtaining permission from the PSB to build 16 420-foot turbines in Sheffield and Sutton. The company scaled back the original application for 26 398-foot turbines, 20 in Sheffield and six in Sutton. Earlier this month, the Vermont Department of Public Service offered an opinion that no turbines should be erected in Sutton since the town plan does not allow tall structures on ridge lines and the people of Sutton do not want them.

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Wind Development Dominates Lyndon News In 2006 Industrial wind turbines dominated the news in 2006 in northern Caledonia County, as they did in 2005.

Up in Dixville Notch, where three inches of wet snow fell before noon and it was snowing lightly all afternoon, it was enough to open five kilometers of cross-country skiing terrain on the lower golf course.

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The states ski industry got a belated and soggy Christmas present yesterday -- a little wet snow.

Tradition Golf School was ranked 19th on the list of the top-25 schools in the U. S. by Golf Magazine in 2005. Dresser published the instruction book "Golf From the Ground Up" a couple years ago, and was named the 2004 Carolinas PGA Section Palmer Maples Teacher of the Year.

The Steve Dresser Golf Academy will feature a 2,200-square foot learning center complete with a classroom, repair center and offices. The indoor swing center boasts four learning stations to be equipped with state-of-the-art digital video systems.

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She hopes to attend either Michigan State or Endicott College. Shell definitely play field hockey if she attends Endicott and will try to walk-on at Michigan State. Shes also been invited to play for New Hampshire in its annual game against Vermont.

Allen was also a member of the golf and baseball teams. Golf, he says, is his favorite. He also is the co-editor in chief of the school newspaper, "The Talon," and a member of the National Honor Society.

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In Maine, the best chance for a white Christmas historically comes in Caribou, which as of Friday had no snow at all on the ground. In Vermont, St. Johnsbury historically offers the best odds for a white Christmas and it too is suffering from unusually warm temperatures this month.

The snow is what Vermont needs," said snowmobile dealer Joey Laquerre, of East Montpelier, Vt. "It affects the restaurants, the hotels, the motels, the ski areas, your hardware stores, your gas stations, everybody. "

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The Portsmouth Herald web site is the guide to the Portsmouth, New Hampshire and surrounding Seacoast area, and is called Seacoast Online. It offers daily local news from 4 local papers, entertainment, classifieds, Yellow Pages, event listings, restaurant and tclub listings, tourist and historical information, and a guide to the Seacoasts arts and cultural offerings.

He has two grandchildren he plans to see often, and then he wants to go back to work. Maybe in a golf shop or a bike shop, turning his hobbies into a post-retirement job, or helping out the Red Cross -- which honored him in March for donating 8 gallons of blood in 35 years -- or another social service agency.

After four years at St. Michaels College in Vermont, he returned to Stamford in 1973 to take a job as a full-time letter carrier, then worked his way up the supervisory ranks, eventually landing the Westport postmasters job in 1991.

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By the time most of you read this, Jim Long will already be up, but not because he has to be. - The advocate local news statussend to online news