SeaWorld Sues Over Breeding
San Diego — SeaWorld made good on its vow to challenge a California Coastal Commission decision barring the breeding of its killer whales, filing a lawsuit Tuesday in San Diego demanding a reversal of the prohibition. At issue is an October action by the coastal agency approving SeaWorld San Diego’s plans to significantly enlarge its killer whale tanks, but only on the condition that the marine park no longer be able to breed captive...
Food Company Is Windsor Bound
Windsor — This town on the banks of the Connecticut River used to be known for manufacturing and mechanics. Now it is becoming a home of the sweet and savory. Blake Hill Preserves, a maker of specialty preserves based in Grafton, Vt., next year will move its production plant to Artisans Park on Route 5 in Windsor, joining a cluster of other Vermont food and beverage producers that are helping to transform this former factory town....
Pitching River Park: Developer Makes His Case for West Lebanon Life-Sciences Research Center
Hanover — High-tech entrepreneurs tend to cluster in locations where there is a large supply of highly educated scientists and researchers: Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, Cambridge, Mass., and Silicon Valley in California. Those places have among the highest concentration of biotech and info-tech startups on the planet, and their presence has turned once-sleepy communities into economic powerhouses. If David Clem’s...
Park Service Promotes Saint-Gaudens Leader
Rick Kendall has been named superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and the National Park Service Stewardship Institute, both in Woodstock, and Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish. He succeeds Michael Creasey, who became superintendent at the National Parks of Boston in June. Kendall’s is the first of three management hires that will also include a deputy superintendent and director of the...
