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Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont are $4.29/g, down 7.8 cents per gallon from last week's $4.36/g. The lowest price in the state yesterday was $3.70/g while the highest was $4.59/g, a difference of 89.0 cents per gallon. The national average price of gasoline has fallen 9.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.99/g today. 

University of Vermont UVM is committed to working together with Vermont organizations to help our state prosper. How can we strengthen the long-term vitality of Vermont's rural communities? Can AI be a constructive part of Vermont’s future? The Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships is excited to explore these questions and more tomorrow at the RISE Summit on June 16. Join us for exciting panel discussions, engaging breakout sessions, and your opportunity to network with forward-thinking minds in rural innovation.

Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets USDA has announced the enrollment period and payment rates for the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) program, which will deliver $1.625 billion to producers facing elevated input costs and market disruptions tied to unfair foreign trade practices. Payments will be issued as applications are approved, with tiered rates based on crop type: $650/acre (Tier 1), $225/acre (Tier 2), $65/acre (Tier 3), and $25/acre for beans and peas, with a $250,000 payment cap. Payment rates will be based on the 2025 crop year.

by Erika Tally, Community News Service On July 10, 2023, rivers across much of Vermont surged as days’ worth of heavy rainfall pounded the already saturated ground, and the state experienced its worst flooding event since 1927. Exactly a year later, the waters spilled over their banks again. ​Both events caused over $1 billion in damage, led to widespread evacuations and claimed four lives in total. ​As the effects of climate change continue to intensify summer weather in Vermont, climate experts are analyzing data patterns and prediction models to determine what events residents should be prepared for.

Vermont State Police On Sunday at approximately 10:31 am, Troopers from the St. Johnsbury and Derby Barracks received information regarding the whereabouts of Wesley Kidder (36) and Morgan Clark (28), both of whom had multiple active warrants issued by Caledonia and Orleans counties. At approximately 11:30 am, Troopers located and took both individuals into custody without incident. Kidder was transported to the Northeast Correctional Complex and lodged without bail. Clark was transported to the Northeast Correctional Complex and lodged for lack of $1,500 bail.

Vermont Business Magazine This weekly report is a list of planned construction activities that will affect traffic on state highways and interstates throughout Vermont for the week of June 15, 2026. Please remember to drive safely in all work zones. Lives depend on it.  

by Alison Despathy This past legislative session, Vermonters for a Clean Environment (VCE) participated in the development of a responsible data center bill, H.727. Despite these efforts, Governor Scott's veto of the bill was justified due to the Senate's massive fumble. Most are well aware that data centers are wreaking havoc throughout the country: guzzling power, contaminating water and land, destroying aquifers, causing droughts, increasing electric rates, disrupting neighbors and communities with infrasound and radiofrequency radiation pollution.

Kevin Chu, et al Not someday. Not in some distant future. Now. We are aging, shrinking, and pricing out our own children, workers, and entrepreneurs. Schools face consolidation, taxes are climbing, and employers struggle to fill jobs. We’re too dependent on federal funding to support spending. A severe housing shortage is driving up prices, slowing economic growth, and leaves young people feeling forced out. And still, we act as if staying the course is a viable option. It is not. It only gets worse from here if nothing changes.

by Gregory Banse, Vermont Frames The year 1976 was filled with historic events, the most noteworthy being the 200 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It was also the year Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched their first product, the Apple I, bringing computer technology to everyday consumers. NASA’s Viking 1 became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars, transmitting the first color photographs of the Martian surface, and the supersonic Concorde jetliner began its first commercial passenger flights, revolutionizing transatlantic travel. 1976 was also the year Vermont Frames was founded in a shed at Clifford Lumber in Hinesburg, to bring a very old technology of timber framing into the modern age. Timber framing is the ancient art and science of building wooden structures from large beams using all-wooden mortise and tenon joinery.

Vermont Business Magazine PC Construction has earned a third major industry honor for its work on the Shawn Walsh Hockey Center and Harold Alfond Arena Renovation and Expansion at the University of Maine, this time from the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) New England Chapter, which presented the project with its prestigious 2026 Mark H. Hasso Project of the Year Award. The honor caps a remarkable run of recognition for a project that fundamentally redefined collegiate hockey in the Northeast.

Vermont Business Magazine U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) this week celebrated the Senate’s passage of their bipartisan Carla Walker Act, legislation which would allow existing federal grant funds to support forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) DNA analysis and help solve previously unsolvable cold cases.  Recently, Vermont State Police used forensic genetic genealogy to identify the remains of Brian Canfield, who disappeared while fishing in Hartland, VT, in 2001. A DNA sample from the man’s brother was matched to a skull found in 2006. 

by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Vermont initial weekly unemployment claims increased slightly last week to near their lowest level since the end of last summer. For the week ending June 6, 2026, the Vermont Department of Labor reported that there were 286 new claims, up 38 from the previous week and down 64 from last year at this time. Nationally, stocks rebounded strongly Thursday and Friday after a steep drop, as chip stocks cratered. However, the SpaceX IPO raised the markets and the war in Iran ebbed with news, again, that the conflict would soon be over.