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An unincorporated village partially in Stanstead and partially in Derby Line, it is divided by the Quebec-Vermont border. This settlement was begun by David and Calvin Beebe in 1798. [1] The Beebe Plain–Beebe Border Crossing, a road international border crossing, is located in this settlement.
Derby is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,579 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] making it the most populous community in Orleans County. The town contains four unincorporated villages : Beebe Plain , Clyde Pond, Lake Salem, and North Derby, and two incorporated villages: Derby Center and Derby Line .
Vermont has one of the most sophisticated smart grid implementations in the United States. In 2012 the state, VELCO and all 20 distribution utilities built (with contractor IBM) a 17-terabit-capable dark fiber optic network to all electrical substations in Vermont, [2] at a cost of about $53 million recovered from operations savings (mostly prevention of outages).
Efficiency Vermont is a program that promotes and facilitates energy efficiency across the state of Vermont. Created in 1999 and implemented in 2000 at the behest of the Vermont Public Service Board , [ 1 ] it has substantially reduced electrical demand and more than balanced load growth in recent years. [ 2 ]
The only other alternative would be to initiate a "catastrophic recession," Rapidan Energy Group president Bob McNally told Bloomberg TV. "At $1.50 a gallon, US shale oil, i.e., energy dominance ...
Derby Line is known for the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a line house deliberately constructed on the international border and opened in 1904. The founders were a binational couple: Carlos F. Haskell was a local American businessman who owned a number of sawmills, while Martha Stewart Haskell was Canadian.
Man With A Plan is an independently produced satire released in 1996, starring dairy farmer and actor Fred Tuttle as himself in a fictional story that finds him running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Since its release, it has remained a local cult classic in Vermont. [citation needed]
Tuttle was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, the son of Bessie Laura (Hoyt) and Joseph Charles Tuttle. [1] He lived in Tunbridge all his life, except for his military service. He attended the schools of Tunbridge, and completed tenth grade at South Royalton High School before going to work on his family's dairy f