Out In The Mountains : News - Vermont's First Civil Union Ends

      BRATTLEBORO - Carolyn Conrad and Kathleen Peterson - the nation’s first same-sex couple to be joined by civil union - dissolved their union in Windham Family Court late last month, the Brattleboro Reformer reported.
      Conrad and Peterson, both of Brattleboro, formalized their five-year relationship in a civil union ceremony just after midnight on July 1, 2000, when civil unions first became legal in Vermont, the Reformer said. They filed to dissolve their union nearly a year ago, in October, 2005.
     The report said that more than 7,500 couples had joined in civil unions by the end of 2004, and there have been a total of 78 dissolutions.