Former VHFA Commissioner Carl Spangler has died in Woodstock. He was 61.

We're anticipating vhfa.org and vhfa.net, our business partner extranet, will be unavailable for a few hours Thursday morning.

We're planning maintenance on our Web server beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday, and expect to be back up and running no later than noon.

Two more Platinum sponsors of the 2010 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference have signed on:

VHFA wrapped up its spring wellness program Friday. For the past four weeks, staffers have been logging the number of steps they climb during the course of the work day.

Collectively, participants climbed 5,510 flights — 53 percent more than our last stairs program in 2008.