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Ski and snowboard season for the Northeast opens in just a few weeks. And when it does, a Vermont ski area plans to unveil a gondola powered entirely by cow manure. Killington Resort in central Vermont has partnered with Green Mountain Power to convert manure from nearby dairy farms to electricity for its K-1 Express Gondola. The so-called "Cow Power" program uses manure from 10,000 cows producing 300,000 gallons of manure per day. "Easily the coolest thing you can possibly do with cow manure," the power company's website declares. "The short version is that we take cow manure, work some...

A Vermont legislator who represents Killington has submitted a bill to set up a commission to study giving the town to New Hampshire. The bill submitted by Rep. Harry Chen, of Mendon, is up for review this week in a House committee. It's not given much chance of passage. Killington officials have been talking about leaving Vermont and joining New Hampshire because they don't like Vermont's statewide property tax. New Hampshire already established a commission to look at accepting Killington. It has said it is waiting to meet with a Vermont commission, should one be created.

They insist they are not joking, and they were back in New Hampshire Wednesday looking for a new place to call home. Officials from Killington tried to line up support for their plan to secede from Vermont and become part of New Hampshire. Killington wants out because residents feel Vermont's tax system is not treating them fairly. Killington officials met with New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch and state lawmakers in Concord, N.H., Wednesday. Killington Town Manager Dave Lewis said they realize their chance of prevailing is small, but that isn't preventing them from trying. A bill in the New Hampshire...

http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?board=31;action=display;threadid=7788 The history on this: Early this year Killington VT started the attempted stampede out of socialistic VT by voting to secede to New Hampshire. Trend seems to be continuing... Personally I seceded to NH last week! And I'm never leaving if I can help it! It really is the Free State and Freedom never looked so beautiful as it does up close.

Vermont ski town takes next step in secession plan By Linda Prospero NEW YORK, July 12 (Reuters) - Officials from the ski resort town of Killington, Vermont, will meet with New Hampshire's governor on Tuesday in the latest step to secede from Vermont over what they consider unfair tax policies. At an open town meeting last March, residents of the popular ski town voted to break away from their state and join New Hampshire, whose border lies 25 miles (40 km) to the east, because of what they see as Vermont's unfair tax structure. David Lewis, Killington's town manager, on...

WHOEVER SAID imitation is the sincerest form of flattery never received a request from a whole town smack dab in the middle of another state to become part of his family. No, what Killington, Vt., did Tuesday is surely the highest form of flattery — for New Hampshire. How deliciously ironic: On the same day Vermonters gave their former tax and spend governor, Howard Dean, his one and only Presidential primary victory, the 1,100-member Vermont town of Killington voted to become part of New Hampshire so it could lower its taxes by about $10 million. It’s not even a border...

High taxes push town to secede from Vermont Libertarian activists in Vermont and New Hampshire cheered the decision made by residents of Killington, a Vermont town of about 1,000, who voted March 2 to secede from the state and join New Hampshire. Contributing to the Killington argument and supporting the decision were New Hampshire state Libertarian Party chair John Babiarz, representatives of the Vermont LP, and several activists in the Free State Project -- which recently began trying to convince 20,000 freedom-minded people to move to New Hampshire as a first step in creating a more libertarian state government there....

<p>Furious over years of skyrocketing property tax and leftist state government, residents of the VT ski town of Killington have just voted by a landslide to secede to New Hampshire. It's not clear how much impact the Free State Project had on the course of events, but the Killington area had been a primary target of FSP advertising over the last month, including television commercials and print ads urging residents to come to NH and "bring Killington with you."</p>

KILLINGTON, Vt. — Nearly 2½ centuries after Killington was chartered by New Hampshire, residents of this ski resort town in the Green Mountains, which joined Vermont after the Revolutionary War, say they’re ready to come home. At town meeting yesterday in Killington, most of the 300 voters in attendance raised their voices and affirmed they want to petition New Hampshire to become a municipality in the state across the Connecticut River. Wary of sending more tax dollars to Montpelier and receiving what they consider little in return, many in the town of 1,100 saw the move as a last-ditch effort...

Remember our article about Killington, the ski town that wanted to escape the land of Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean by joining New Hampshire? The ayes have it. The town voted overwhelmingly today to secede and become an outpost of the Live Free or Die State, 25 miles to the east. Unfortunately, this will probably never happen. State legislators in Vermont and New Hampshire have the final say, and the greedy pols in Montpelier want to keep Killington as their cash cow. New Hampshire Gov. Craig Benson said the vote "tickled" him, but he worried: "How do you take a...

Killington Residents Endorse Plan To Join New Hampshire Town Wants To Secede Over Property Taxes POSTED: 2:30 pm EST March 2, 2004 KILLINGTON, Vt. -- Voting with a thunderous "aye," Killington residents endorsed a plan Tuesday for the ski resort town to secede from Vermont. The overwhelming voice vote inside the elementary school opened the next chapter in what could be a long and costly push to join New Hampshire, a state 25 miles to the east. Town officials estimated between 200-300 people attended the meeting, and that about two-thirds of them supported the idea in the voice vote. "Other...

The communities were declaring their independence; the people of those communities were asserting that no man was born--to use the language of Mr. Jefferson--booted and spurred, to ride over the rest of mankind; that men were created equal--meaning the men of the political community; that there was no divine right to rule; that no man inherited the right to govern; that there were no classes by which power and place descended to families; but that all stations were equally within the grasp of each member of the body politic. --Jefferson Davis, Farewell Speech to Congress, 1861 Grab your guns and...

THE SELECTMEN in the central Vermont resort town of Killington have had enough of their state’s punitive tax structure. They want to be annexed by New Hampshire. We’d sure like to see that happen. The leaders of that little ski community high in the Green Mountains share the anger felt by many Granite State residents at judges whose decisions violated clear constitutional language, endorsed inequitable tax policies, and overturned local control of education. New Hampshire’s school funding controversies are well known in Vermont, but Killington’s selectboard realized that their town would be better off with us. Just last year, the...

<p>We've all heard of individuals and companies fleeing high-tax jurisdictions. But entire towns or cities? That is the idea du jour in the famous Vermont ski hamlet of Killington, where local leaders say they'd rather be living free in neighboring New Hampshire. They may schedule the issue of secession for discussion at their town meeting this March.</p>

<p>KILLINGTON, Vt. — Officials in the popular ski resort area of Killington (search) want the town to secede from Vermont and join neighboring New Hampshire in a dispute over taxes.</p> <p>They say the town's restaurants, inns and other businesses send $10 million a year to the state capital in sales, room and meal taxes, but the state returns just $1 million in state aid to Killington.</p>

Fed up with redistributionist school taxes, leaders of Killington, Vermont have settled on a bold new strategy: Secession. Their plan is to take their town all the way out of the left-leaning New England state and join with its more conservative neighbor, New Hampshire. Free Staters were ecstatic to hear the news and are planning a "shadow advertising" campaign to support Killington. If the Killington bid succeeds, New Hampshire would gain a new, tax-hating municipality. If it fails, Free Staters figure they can recruit many of the towns residents and other disgruntled northeasterners to move *themselves* to the Free State....

<p>Welcome to Killington, N.H.</p> <p>A plot is afoot in the central Vermont resort town to abandon Vermont and become part of New Hampshire.</p> <p>Low-tax New Hampshire would never abuse the town through taxation the way Vermont does, said Killington Town Manager David Lewis.</p>

Tired of Taxes, Vermont Ski Resort Town Considers Joining New Hampshire The Associated Press KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Officials in the popular ski resort area of Killington want the town to secede from Vermont and join neighboring New Hampshire in a dispute over taxes. They say the town's restaurants, inns and other businesses send $10 million a year to the state capital in sales, room and meal taxes, but the state returns just $1 million in state aid to Killington. Even more galling to the town is a statewide property tax imposed in 1997 to fund schools. The town of...