Daily Archives: April 13, 2006

Trouble in Paradise: Recent spate of local robberies

Last week our neighbor’s house was robbed in the middle of the day. I sent an email out to a list of about 30 local people to let them know and suddenly many of those people were reporting back about a number of other recent local robberies. Many of these had the same signature which was the door being kicked in. My carpenter husband had even repaired one of these doors.

A positive effect of this is that we are now planning to have a community meeting about setting up a neighborhood watch and hopefully having a state trooper come and advise us as well. I already feel like the Mrs. Kravitz of Moody Road since I can see who is driving up and down the road all day long while I’m at my computer. There are not very many houses on my road and it’sa dead end road, so an unfamiliar car definitely stands out!

Happily, it seems that the perps of some (maybe all??) of these robberies have been caught, according to this news report in the Burlington Free Press.

This has definitely had an effect on us and some of our habits in the past week. I prefer living in my little fantasy bubble where nothing bad can happen to us.

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Vermont IT Jobs: Green Mountain Power: IT Point person (interpretor for the development team)

Green Mountain Power

IT Point Person

Do you have great programming and communication skills?

We’re looking for an energetic professional to join our programming team who has that rare mix of programming and people skills. If you like a fast paced user-driven environment working on a wide-variety of systems, we have a great job for you. You will be the point person for a high-powered software team responsible for triaging requests, writing specs, coding, and project work in order to satisfy a diverse group of users. This position has plenty of opportunities to grow.

The development environment focuses on Microsoft’s tools and Oracle databases on Windows, Tru64 UNIX, and VMS systems. Fluency in a cross section of Visual Studio, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, C#, Microsoft .NET and Object Oriented programming techniques is highly desirable.

 Green Mountain Power offers a very competitive benefits package for our employees including medical, dental and vision coverage for you and your family, a pension program as well as a 401-k plan with a dollar for dollar match of your first 4 % contribution.
 
You can email a resume in Word doc form to brown_p@gmpvt.com and please cc aghareza@gmpvt.com indicating that you found this on the VTdotNET site or on my blog.

Green Mountain Power Corporation
Green Mountain Power, a Vermont company committed
to the development of its employees, to serving customers and to the
Vermont value of preserving the environment

                                                                          AA/EOE

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