Norwich
Police say Kenneth Washington, 62, suffered a minor back injury and was taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center after a tractor trailer he was driving slid off the road and onto its side.
Road conditions were slippery when the accident occurred around 10:30 a.m., according to a Vermont State Police news release. Washington also told police he hit a patch of black ice.
The road was closed until 2:30 p.m. as workers from Sabil & Sons, Inc. unloaded the truck and removed it from the off ramp.
Concord
The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is due each December. It details every state department’s financial position for the previous fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. It also outlines lawsuits the state is facing and provides some employment data, among other things.
Comptroller Gerard Murphy and Commissioner of Administrative Services Vicki Quiram are asking lawmakers to give them until Jan. 31 to complete the report. Quiram says high staff turnover in some agencies has slowed down the process.
A legislative committee must approve the delay next week.
Quiram says her office has a “pretty good idea” of the numbers and the delay shouldn’t affect budget writers.
Burlington
The agreement between Airbnb and Vermont’s largest city takes effect Jan. 1.
It has been the responsibility of the host renting spare rooms or apartments to ensure they were paying the city’s taxes.
Airbnb spokesman Peter Schottenfels told the Burlington Free Press there are more than 300 active hosts in Burlington who rented to more than 23,000 people last year. Hosts typically make about $6,300 a year.
The state of Vermont, which also collects a meals-and-rooms tax, already has a collection agreement with Airbnb.
Bedford, n.h.
The Elliot Health System plans to provide lab, imaging, pharmacy and specialists in addition to primary care doctors.
Currently, Elliot has two family medicine offices and one pediatric office in Bedford. The two family medicine offices will be combined in the new facility and the pediatric office will be relocated in the new center.
Elliot Health System is a nonprofit organization that includes Elliot Hospital in Manchester.
Campton, n.h.
Last summer, officials asked for public input on a plan to change recreation fees, including increasing the cost of daily recreation passes from $3 to $5 and the cost of annual passes from $25 to $30.
That plan also called for eliminating the $25 annual household passes, which can be shared by two vehicles in the same household. But officials say they now realize that’s an important option for many families.
Instead, they’re proposing to retain the pass but increase the cost to $40.
Comments are being accepted on the plan until Jan. 30.
Littleton, n.h.
The Littleton rest area off Exit 44 was named the Raymond S. Burton Welcome Center on Thursday. A plaque and portrait of Burton are inside the entrance.
Republican Rep. Brad Bailey, who sponsored legislation naming the center after Burton, told the Caledonian Record that from tourism to economic development, Burton always put the “collective interests first.” Burton died in 2013, after a battle with cancer. He was 74.
The council official, from Bath, served District One for 34 years.
The Littleton welcome center is one of 12 managed by state agencies. It had 83,000 visitors last year.
— Staff and wire reports