If it's been 3 weeks, the data is gone. That's sad. I liked that website. I used it when we were looking to purchase land.

So did I.

Whelp, you might want to get an idea because there's lots of folks assuming you're a white supremacist with those numbers in your handle.

Imaginary highways are cool but I dream more about fixing local town traffic first. These towns are not built for this kind of traffic and it shows. Middlebury and Hinesburg especially during rush hour are undriveable.

r/nottheonion

Possibly but it varies so much that the atm option is honestly the simplest—so I use that if I need cash. I guess if you’re taking out a significant amount it might be worth shopping around, but ymmv.

Even easier? Skip cash and use a credit card with no foreign transaction fee.

The one that's in Canada but some high school uses it like Newport

It means that my first car was a 1988 Lincoln MarkVII. No idea what you're talking about.

This fucking sucks. ISS was by far the most affordable place in the area to keep a boat/learn to sail. Also the least pretentious.

Cute “88” in your handle. Golly, whatever could that mean? Surely your not a white supremacist, right? What a joke.

"Town clerk error in your favor. Collect 10 acres."

I’m ridiculing those that prize wokeness at the expense of common sense and those that look to be offended (like half of r/vermont)Wokeness as an industry should be ridiculed, inclusivity should not.

Is this true? Spartan arena (rutland mall) is owned and mostly operated by castleton so I find that hard to believe.

Most rink jobs I’ve seen are unpaid and volunteer. Find it hard to believe with the price of ice time that they can’t afford to pay better. Always said growing up it would be an awesome part time thing to give back to the hockey community, but I gotta pay bills.

More than half, actually. My current list has 138/256 towns online - maybe more as there are towns I don’t search often so I don’t keep up with. My firm has not needed to postpone any closings or delay any matters because of this. Searches for the Cotts towns are now back to how they used to be - searching the cards, general indexes, book indexes, daybook, etc. - before online land records. Yes it’s inconvenient and more time-consuming but isn’t “effectively shutting down most business” as you stated.

Sadly I've had the following conversation with a customer:

"I can't retrieve your data because it appears one of the tapes is too worn out to be read by the drive."

"What do you mean?! Our DLT-8000 tape backups are the best option, our previous IT vendor told us it's the best system in the business! It cost like $15,000 to put in place!"

"OK...sooooo...do you have any more backup tape sets I can try?"

"They're in the other room across the building."

*We proceed to walk by an area with one of the largest magnets I've ever seen in person.

"Do you put all your backups in this room?"

"Of course, it is secured..."

Long story short, I was unable to restore any of their data from those tapes even verifying with a brand new DLT drive.

If the gutters are too low they will do nothing for a downpour.

Snow load go slidey slide!

Yeah I hear ya. I'd like to think that there's an option other than this and no digitization in the year of our lord 2023.

In my line of work, I run across these kinds of niche government and/or NGO SasSes all the time. The total market for their software isn't that big and their clients are very change averse, so what ends up happening is a few companies carve up the space and never have any competition enter. This makes for small but extremely profitable companies that just sorta stick around forever, even as their service deteriorates. It's a really unfortunate pattern, and I wish governments invested more in co-owned open source solutions instead of letting these grifts continue.

Jesus Christ I’d totally forgotten the Mounties nickname. Good call. It’s uh… been a while.

Same here, especially when I'm on my motorcycle; I will turn my head side to side very deliberately "No" while keeping my eyeballs peeled for the vehicle behind them who decided to pass "the idiot" in front of them.

I do recall plenty of people using the Raiders nickname. Green Wave seems only used for articles in the Herald; we almost always call MSJ the Mounties.

I think there is nuance to the situation which makes it tough to say one path is definitely better than another.

Different banks and even different account types within the same bank will charge you differently for the same exchange. When I have been in your position in the past I read through my bank/debit/credit card terms and made the decision from there.

Yes, less than half of the towns even; Yes, the hardcopies of all the land records are still maintained in the vaults... The problem is accessing them: Some of the towns in the Cotts systems did not maintain backups/ hardcopies of the INDEXES needed to find the correct hardcopies of the land records in the vaults, beyond the "daybook" records if the clerk's themselves. If you cannot find the documents you need in a timely manner, they don't do you much good. It affects us all in that having 20+ towns in Vermont effectively shut down for business damages the entirety of the State economy. My apologies if I was unclear.

After a vote in 2022 that approved extending the Colchester Town sewer system into Malletts Bay, I suppose I'm not surprised that a business like the ISS is being forced out. Despite construction not starting until 2024, and projected to extend into 2026, the landlords stand to gain a lot more value for their property with a sewer connection. This means more, different tenants with different and/or greater water/sewer needs can make use of the property, and pay higher rents, of course. The research pointed to Malletts Bay sewer helping greatly to keep wastewater out of the lake, but surely that's not the only benefit. I think this will lead to greater development of the Malletts Bay area. Good or bad, you decide.

https://www.wcax.com/2022/03/02/colchester-voters-approve-extending-town-sewage-system-malletts-bay/