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Stowe Mountain Lodge played host to the NEPPA’s Annual Conference this year. This fantastic destination could have easily out-shone any business conference held there with beautiful accommodations, fantastic service and great food. Even the weather decided to allow attendees to enjoy all that Stowe had to offer.
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NEPPA's Annual Conference recently held at Stowe Mountain Lodge, Vermont, was the setting for our award presentations to honor outstanding NEPPA members and friends.
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Each year, NEPPA is the beneficiary of financial and other contributions by its affiliates and friends through their sponsorship of the NEPPA Annual Conference. Their contributions are very important to this event, and NEPPA is grateful for their support. The 2013 sponsors were:
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT
What happened to the summer? Driving back from the Annual Conference, I actually noticed some leaves beginning to change. While I welcome the color and cooler temperatures, I wouldn’t mind slowing things down a little; it seems that NEPPA has seen constant change in my short, tenured 22 months.
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AROUND NEW ENGLAND
American Public Power Association’s July- August 2013 Issue of their magazine included an article entitled "The Great Northeast Blackout; Ten Years Later" by Brent Barker.
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Foxborough, MA: Energy New England (ENE), LLC, an energy cooperative based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, announced that the Littleton Electric Light Department has joined the ENE family of customers beginning August 1, 2013.
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ASSOCIATION HAPPENINGS
I am sending you this message to request your participation in a program for sharing of timely and actionable cyber and physical threat information.
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Yes folks, it’s that time again! Starting in September, NEPPA will be mailing out the 2014 Education & Training Catalog and the 2014 Safety & Training registration forms, so please be on the lookout for them.
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NEPPA welcomes National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) as a new Associate Member! NISC is a leading provider of information technology solutions and services, offering advanced and integrated ERP software and hardware solutions to utilities and telecoms. Over five million consumers in 47 states receive utility or telecommunications services from over 650 companies utilizing NISC advanced information technology systems.
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NEPPA is excited to announce the release of our new publication, "the Lineworkers Quarterly" directed to those dedicated professionals working on system power lines to "keep the lights on." Our goal is to keep the associations’ lineworkers abreast of the latest information and news to help them do their job more safely and efficiently.
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CALENDAR
Customer Service Conference 2013
September 12, 2013
Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge, MA
 
November 1, 2013
Westford Regency
Westford, MA

Please keep an eye out for more information coming out soon!
 
November 6-8
Water's Edge Resort
Westbrook, CT

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EDUCATION & TRAINING UPDATE
The General Foremen’s Roundtable held on August 15, 2013, at the NEPPA Training Center in Littleton, MA, began with a presentation by NEPPA’s Executive Director, Larry Brownell, and covered the new program that will be used in Mutual Aid Events starting later this year. The discussion was focused around events that may occur outside of the NEPPA region and how implementation will be handled.
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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
The House and Senate began their annual August recess on Aug. 5, and are scheduled to return on Sept. 9.
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IBEW LU#104
Alber
HD Supply Power Solutions
Workplace Safety Soutions, Inc

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