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Vermont Business Magazine Try bending your iPhone in half. Or roll up your tablet like a scroll. Or wrap a touchscreen TV around a pole. Didn’t work out so well, did it? That’s because the ceramic material used to make many of today’s touchscreens has only two of three needed qualities: it’s conductive, it’s transparent—but it’s not flexible.

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Vermont Business Magazine April 1st is the traditional date that the state’s winter manure spreading ban is lifted and farmers can get out on their fields and begin to apply those valuable nutrients to their cropland.

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Vermont Business MagazineBeginning in the fall of the 2017-18 academic year Castleton University will move to offer gender inclusive housing options, a concept that stems from work by the University’s President’s Council on Inclusive Excellence.

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Vermont Business Magazine In response to a press release issued yesterday by the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR), we have received reports that a Vermont insurance company is also being misrepresented in a series of phone calls to Vermonters.

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A well known Brattleboro business has changed hands this week. The Putney Road Redemption Center has been sold by its founder and long-time owner Chris Parro to Sogni d’Oro LLC, a business run by partners from Norwich, VT. The transaction was managed by Philip Steckler of Country Business Inc, a New England Business Brokerage Firm.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott and Agency of Commerce and Community Development Secretary Michael Schirling today announced the appointment of Wendy Knight as Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing. Knight, a longtime Addison County resident, joins the Department from the private sector.

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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power has lined up an army of crews to respond to outages expected from an extraordinary moisture laden spring storm already affecting parts of Vermont. The wet snow building up on tree branches is likely to cause outages across the state, especially in southern and central Vermont.

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Vermont Business Magazine Attorney Tom Csatari has announced that the Upper Valley office of Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC have moved to the Gateway I building at 67 Etna Road in Lebanon. The firm began welcoming clients at the new location last Monday.

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Vermont Business Magazine Are we financially illiterate? Was our lack of financial acumen a cause of the Great Recession of 2008 and does it continue to undermine our nation's economic health? Unfortunately, the answer is yes to all of these questions, but until now, the extent of our financial ignorance had not been quantified.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) is pleased to announce the addition of four part-time staff members. Larissa Del Rosso Rayher, who spent 2016 as an intern for VBSR, has officially joined the team as a Program Assistant.

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Vermont Business Magazine It was announced Thursday thatVolkswagen AG, Audi AG and Porsche AG, as well as their American subsidiaries, have agreed to pay over $157 million to 10 states – including $4.2 million to Vermont– to settle the environmental lawsuits first filed last summer by New York and Massachusetts challenging the companies’ secret use of unlawful “defeat device” s

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Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont will award honorary degrees at the May ceremony to Diane Greene, Martha Pattee Heath, David R. Nalin, M.D., Alexander Nemerov, and Patrick Wong. The university will also award an honorary degree to James Fallows, the 2017 commencement speaker.