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Vermont Business Magazine Tech Vault, the premier multi-tenant data center and cloud provider in the region, announced today that Mach7 Technologies has selected Tech Vault as its Data Center and Network Service provider. Tech Vault’s secure, LEED certified Data Center will provide Mach7 with a HIPAA certified, fully redundant, collocation environment.

Mach7, also based in South Burlington, VT, delivers a software platform that enables healthcare organizations to store, manipulate and distribute medical image information throughout an enterprise. Mach7 is a global technology provider that is publicly traded on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: M7T). With an install base in the USA, UK, Saudi Arabia, Qatar & throughout the Asia Pacific region they have delivered their software in both an on premise solution as well as a cloud-based solution in partnership with Microsoft Azure.

Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s (SVHC) Centers for Living and Rehabilitation (CLR), a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Bennington, recently earned Vermont regulators’ highest commendation, deficiency free. It is the third time in 6 years they have received a deficiency-free rating.

Vermont Business Magazine Five Vermont schools are among the nation’s 300 State Finalists in the 10th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest, a program that encourages 6th-12th  grade students to solve real-world issues in their community using classroom skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). They are from Burliington, Essex, Moretown, St Albans and Hartford. The Vermont State Finalist classrooms were chosen based on their creative and strategic proposals to solve complicated issues that affect their communities by using STEM learning. All 300 teachers that submitted these finalist proposals will receive one Samsung tablet for their classrooms and have the opportunity to advance in the competition with their students for additional prizes.

Vermont Business Magazine Omega Optical, a southern Vermont-based manufacturer in Brattleboro, has received a $9,000 Vermont Training Program (VTP) grant from the Vermont Department of Economic Development. For decades, Omega Optical has made a variety of optical filters products used by both government and private organizations. Omega Optical continues to create innovate products and serves as a key supplier to companies involved in aerospace, defense, and life science operations. Omega Optical will use the grant to train employees a valuable curriculum of basic inferometry training, machine math training, advanced machine tool technology training, and CNC machine training.

Vermont Business Magazine Strolling of the Heifers will host three Holiday Pop-Up Gift Shop events in the River Garden (157 Main Street) this November and December. Products from over 40 local artisans will be available for purchase at each pop-up. All events are free and open to the public. The first pop-up begins on “Black Friday”, the Friday following Thanksgiving. 

by John R Brumsted November 21, 2019 is Rural Health Care Day across the United States. In honor of this day, I want to illustrate the work we are doing locally in Northern New York and Vermont, as we adapt to meet the needs of aging populations, changes in how care is paid and reimbursed, and ever-increasing costs of serving every patient who walks into our clinics or emergency rooms. 

Vermont Business Magazine The Grants and Loans Committee of The Episcopal Church in Vermont has approved more than $32,000 in grants during the second half of 2019. Combined with almost $18,000 in grants announced in the first half of the year, the Committee has awarded a total of about $50,000 in grants for the calendar year.

Vermont Business Magazine In 1998, to provide area community organizations with blankets to help Vermonters in need, New England Federal Credit Union (NEFCU) conducted its first Blankets of Hopeä  Drive. Now in its 21st year, the NEFCU Blankets of Hopeä  drive has collected and distributed thousands of blankets to organizations including the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS), Spectrum Youth & Family Services, Samaritan House, and others.

This year, as in years past, the drive begins on December 1 and ends on December 31. New and gently used blankets may be dropped off at any NEFCU branch, the addresses of which are available at nefcu.com. Blankets will be cleaned and packaged by Greer’s Professional Fabricare Services.

Source: Williston VT—For more information, please visit nefcu.com

Vermont Business Magazine Last week, news broke that Summit Ventures NE LLC has agreed to sell the majority of its Sugarbush assets to Alterra Mountain Company. While this was no easy decision, President and COO Win Smith and the Sugarbush staff are excited to see where this opportunity takes the Resort and the community. For those who are interested in learning more, Sugarbush will be hosting an open forum where Win and our executive team will be joined by members of the Alterra Mountain Company leadership team. The forum is scheduled for tonight, November 20th, at 5pm in the Gate House Lodge.

Vermont Business Magazine Stowe and Okemo, in Vermont, and Mount Sunapee, in New Hampshire, will each celebrate their opening day of the 2019/2020 ski and snowboard season with First Chair festivities. At each resort, skiers and riders ascending to the summit on the first chairlift of the winter season will have the honor of crashing through a commemorative banner before making first tracks on the slopes. All three resorts, along with Mount Snow, are now owned by Vail Resorts, based in Colorado.

Opening day at Stowe is slated for November 22. A live DJ will help raise the stoke with music at the Four Runner Quad starting at 7:30 a.m. The first chair will load at 8 a.m. Stowe will have a total of 17 trails, 101 acres and 6 miles of terrain open including prominent runs like

Vermont Business Magazine A new study finds Vermont is the Number 11 smartest state in the US. The national firm doing the analysis relied largely on educational attainment and college entrance test scores. Vermont was particularly strong in bachelor degrees awarded, high school graduation rate and ACT scoring. Currently, 65 percent of Americans think they have above average intelligence and 2 in 3 people say they are smarter than other people. Everyone can’t be right.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Labor has announced it is now accepting applications for the 2020 Vermont Internship Program. Funded by the Department of Labor, the program will award $300,000 to eligible applicants. Organizations can receive up to $50,000 in matched grant funds, or up to $25,000 in unmatched funds. Awards may be used to build or administer an internship program or provide participants with need-based stipends during the internship. The Program promotes internships by providing grants to organizations who support or connect Vermont employers with student-interns from regional technical centers or post-secondary educational institutions.