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Vermont Business Magazine Burlington Electric Department (BED) issued a peak alert for Monday, July 27 as part of its Defeat the Peak program launched during summer 2017 (view news release), encouraging members of the Burlington community to reduce their energy usage on Monday from 4:00-7:00pm

Vermont Business Magazine Northern Vermont University-Lyndon student Neil TS Flanders received an honorable mention in the University & College Designers Association’s (UCDA) Vote 2020 Student Poster Design Initiative. Winning entries can be viewed on the UCDA website at https://www.ucda.com/vote-2020-winners/.

A panel of design educators from across North America reviewed the 26 contest entries and awarded two first places and six honorable mentions.

Vermont Business Magazine For years, Vermont-based FoodScience Corporation has supported local non-profits, but this year employees will lead the social mission on their own.

The company announced this week that, due to health and safety concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, it would not host a Good Neighbor Day this year, an event where their nearly 200 employees would dedicate one day of service to a non-profit organization in the Vermont community. Instead, FoodScience is asking employees to carry on the tradition in an entirely new way. Each person will receive a one-time gift of $250 to bestow to a local charity, business, or individual of their choosing.

Vermont Business Magazine The college founded on Marlboro's Potash Hill 74 years ago is no more - but it hasn't died quietly.

On July 22, the Corporation of Marlboro College sold its campus to New York-based Democracy Builders Fund (DBF) for a total of $1,725,000 in cash and debt, a sum far below the property's assessed value. The following day, the college transferred its assets to Boston's Emerson College.

News of the sales price, released through the Vermont Attorney General's Office (AGO) on July 24, has generated "a massive uproar from Marlboro alumni and townsfolk, Adrian Segar, a Marlboro resident and former Marlboro College teacher who spearheaded local efforts to block the two transactions, told VBM.

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Governor Announces Strengthened Mask Requirements

Vermont Business Magazine On Saturday, July 25th, 123 volunteers will gather on Zoom to conduct virtual team building and training in final preparation for Camp Ta-Kum-Ta’s signature summer program. This year, it includes a Camper Parade that will kick off Camp’s 36th year by delivering lawn signs that read “Camp is Home, Ta-Kum-Ta Magic in Progress” along with a bag filled with goodies to the front lawns of every camper’s home across Vermont and upstate New York. Volunteers with decorated cars will safely blow horns and sing songs from a distance as all the materials needed for Camp’s virtual program get delivered to the camper’s front lawns. Inside the Camp bags they will find specially designed Camp clothing, arts and craft kits, s’mores kits and much more - everything they need for a full week of interactive online programs being facilitated by our creative volunteers.

Vermont Business Magazine Today, Mayor Miro Weinberger released the following statement on the Burlington School District’s plan to reopen this fall with a hybrid model:

Vermont Business Magazine As the state continues its sustained efforts to encourage mask use as a tool to limit the spread of COVID-19 and protect the most vulnerable, Governor Phil Scott today announced strengthened mask requirements in public places and congregate settings.

“Based on national and regional data on how the virus is spreading – and rather than waiting like other states have – I feel we need to act now to protect our gains, which have allowed us to reopen much of our economy,” said Governor Scott. “That’s why today I signed an Order, which will strengthen our current mask mandates, so that we do not take steps backwards and we can stay open into the fall as people move more of their interactions indoors,” Governor Scott added.

Vermont Business Magazine The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Rebecca Armell, 47, of Shelburne, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to one year and one day of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a charge of credit card fraud. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Armell serve three years of supervised release following completion of her prison term and pay restitution totaling $301,000. The court directed Armell to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on October 13 to begin serving her sentence.

Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) has invested $750,000 in the latest breast imaging technology for its newly renamed Breast Health and Imaging Center, formerly SVMC Women’s Imaging. The funds purchased two Hologic Selenia Dimensions 3-D Mammography units. Both provide proven superior clinical performance compared with less recent technology.

“Our aim is to give patients and providers the crucial information they need to make decisions for further care, if needed,” said Melissa Spiezio, RT(R)(M), SVMC’s director of Imaging Services. “This advanced technology will help us meet that goal for years to come and to do so more efficiently and more comfortably than ever.”