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Vermont Business Magazine On the occasion of the Shelburne Museum’s 75th anniversary, the museum will reopen its historic Stagecoach Inn building, home to the museum’s renowned American folk-art collection, on September 11, 2022. After a two-year renovation, Stagecoach Inn’s galleries have been refreshed and reinstalled with iconic selections representing the best of the museum’s folk art collection. New research looks past the formal qualities of weathervanes, ship’s carvings, trade signs, and more, digging into the origins, makers, and functions of these objects to offer 21st-century perspectives reflective of the vast and varied ingenuity and creativity that inflects America’s rich visual story.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Democratic Party (VDP) launched Together for Vermont – the largest and most ambitious coordinated campaign in Vermont’s history – at a Unity Rally last Tuesday highlighting statewide and federal candidates. Candidates attended the rally in the VDP field office in Montpelier and stood united under the common goal of electing Democrats up and down the ticket.

Vermont Business Magazine The Fox US Open of Mountain Biking expects many of the biggest names in the sport at Killington Resort on September 15-18 for fans to watch compete for the event’s largest prize purse ever of $80,000. Known as a family event, and true mountain bike festival, the event located at Killington’s Ramshead Peak will have excellent viewing of the Downhill, Dual Slalom, Enduro and fan-favorite Best Whip contests! First prize for the men’s and women’s Open Downhill events is $15,000 each - it’s a race anyone can enter, and anyone can win! Greg Minnaar, Wyn Masters, Jackson Goldstone, Dakotah Norton, Nina Hoffmann, Rachel Strait and Neko Mulally are among the many notable riders registered to compete at the Fox US Open of Mountain Biking.

Vermont Agency of Transportation This weekly report is a list of planned construction activities that will have traffic impacts on state highways throughout Vermont for the week of September 5, 2022. Please note that crews will be off on Monday, September 5th in observance of Labor Day. Remember to drive safely in all work zones. Lives depend on it.

Vermont Business Magazine With every new headline about mass shootings, aggravated assaults, extortion or natural disasters, more than ever, Americans fear for their safety. Austin, TX-based market research firm TOP Data conducted an in-depth analysis to determine which states are the safest in America. Based on the analysis of 37 metrics organized into 6 key indicators of crime and prevention — Personal Safety, Public Safety, Financial Safety, Mental Health, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Public Security — the 2022 America's Safest States rankings showed Vermont as the #5 safest state in the nation.

Vermont Business Magazine Jersey Mike’s Subs, known for its fresh sliced/fresh grilled subs, will open its first location in the state of Vermont on Wednesday, September 7. The new restaurant will be located at 69 Market Street, next to L.L.Bean, in Williston. Franchise owner Thomas King will hold a grand opening and fundraiser from Wednesday, September 7 to Sunday, September 11 to support Essex High School. Customers who receive a special fundraising coupon distributed through a grassroots effort prior to the opening can make a minimum $3 contribution to Essex High School in exchange for a regular sub. Customers must have a coupon to be eligible.

Vermont Business Magazine Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ: CNSL) a leading broadband and business communications provider, today announced that the Consolidated Connects educational grant program will accept funding applications from Sept. 1 through Oct. 14. The program provides grants to schools and educational programs serving K-12 students in the company’s service area. Since launching in 2021, Consolidated Connects has provided $60,000 to 20 schools for a variety of programs, including an eSports club, robotics clubs, outdoor scientific programing and summer computer repair internships.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), along with Representative Peter Welch (D-Vermont), on Thursday sent a letter to Corbel Capital Partners’ CEO Jeffrey Schwartz in support of workers affected by the recent and unexpected closure of LandAir, based in Williston, Vermont. LandAir, a less-than-truckload freight company, had 11 locations in New England, including two in Vermont and two in Massachusetts, and employed 450 workers. Corbel, a California-based private equity firm, purchased the company in 2018.