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	<title>Peter's Soapbox &#187; Bethel</title>
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		<title>School Choice and Consolidation in Vermont</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/03/07/school-choice-and-consolidation-in-vermont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Vermont Yankee debate has died down, the current hot topic before Vermont&#8217;s state government is school choice. Here&#8217;s what I think on this.
The education system in this state is a joke. As a graduate (Whitcomb High School class of 1990), former employee (Teacher &#8211; Computer Technology, Randolph Area Vocational Center, 1993-1994) , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bethel Votes to Withdraw from Windsor Northwest Supervisory Union</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/03/06/bethel-votes-to-withdraw-from-windsor-northwest-supervisory-union/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/03/06/bethel-votes-to-withdraw-from-windsor-northwest-supervisory-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a summary of the highlights of this week&#8217;s school budget meeting:

The chair of the school board announced that the superintendent has been put on administrative leave.
The school board asked if the taxpayers would borrow $480,000 to pay back, over a period of three years, the debt that has been accumulated.
Townspeople attempted to get details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bethel Town Office: Still Can&#8217;t Get Through</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/01/27/bethel-town-office-still-cant-get-through/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2010/01/27/bethel-town-office-still-cant-get-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years later, the song remains the same.
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		<title>On Fresh Ubuntu, Fiber Optics, and Divorce</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/10/10/on-fresh-ubuntu-fiber-optics-and-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/10/10/on-fresh-ubuntu-fiber-optics-and-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay all, I&#8217;ve been silent for far too long, and I figured it was time to come out with some official statements for the benefit of the (albeit small) community that has formed around the Fresh Ubuntu podcast, and also for my other friends whom I haven&#8217;t had a chance to touch base with on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairpoint (FKA Verizon), You #$@#$^&amp;* @#$(* !@#@#@ !!@(()*&amp;!!!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/08/14/fairpoint-fka-verizon-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/08/14/fairpoint-fka-verizon-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Techspeak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[verizon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever get the feeling that maybe you spoke too soon?
Yeah, me too.
So remember the Fairpoint tech, who showed up unannounced, and told me our lines were crossed with someone else&#8217;s? He told me that they were getting our calls, and we were getting theirs. I gave him a list of other problems we were having.
Note [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Fairpoint (FKA Verizon)</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/08/14/thank-you-fairpoint-fka-verizon/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/08/14/thank-you-fairpoint-fka-verizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, unprompted by me, a technician from Fairpoint Communications (formerly known in these parts as Verizon) showed up, saying we had a &#8220;crossed pair&#8221; on our line.
I asked him if this could have anything to do with some issues we&#8217;ve been having on our line for quite some time, including

Incoming calls not being answered (because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECFiber Finds Underwriter</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/07/08/ecfiber-reaches-finds-underwriter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/07/08/ecfiber-reaches-finds-underwriter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[municipal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was announced this evening at the regular ECFiber governing board meeting that the group, representing 23 towns in east central Vermont with an aim to build a municipal fiber-to-the-home network, is in negotiations with Oppenheimer &#38; Company, Inc. to underwrite an $80M investment to create the network. Sovereign Bank has been hired as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bethel Signs on to EC Fiber</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/08/bethel-signs-on-to-ec-fiber/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/08/bethel-signs-on-to-ec-fiber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Techspeak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s Select Board Meeting Minutes:
With respect to the Town joining with others through the ECFiber Interlocal Contract to develop and implement a communications system, Chairman Fox stated that the Town appears to be in receipt of sufficient legal advice to confirm that the draft Interlocal Contract for formation of “ECFiber” should now be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECFiber Pre-Registation Campaign</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/03/ecfiber-pre-registation-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/03/ecfiber-pre-registation-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 11:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard about it yet, The East-Central Vermont Community Fiber-Optic Network (ECFiber.net) is an association of 20 towns in East- Central Vermont formed to build a community-owned fiber-optic communications network for the purpose of making high-speed Internet, digital television and telephone services universally available to the approximately 23,000 homes and businesses in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECFiber/VTA Editorial in Today&#8217;s Valley News</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/29/ecfibervta-editorial-in-todays-valley-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/29/ecfibervta-editorial-in-todays-valley-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bethel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[See this editorial in today&#8217;s Valley News for a pretty good summary of the state of ECFiber with respect to the VTA.
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