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The Antidote to Snowboard Competitions Where an Open Mind is All You Need

Vermont Business Magazine Burton has announced the 2022 Spring schedule for its first-ever Mystery Series, a bold new global open-format event that’s unlike anything else in snowboarding, and the antidote to elite competitions. This inaugural series will feature nine events across the globe, bringing together riders of all ages and abilities under a shared love of snowboarding to showcase creativity, self-expression, and good times - all under a cloak of mystery.

Vermont Business Magazine US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) was in Burlington Thursday to highlight funding for Lake Champlain and water and wastewater infrastructure in the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA). With $55 billion in funding for water quality, the IIJA is the single largest investment in water in the nation’s history. Included in that funding is $40 million over the next five years for the Lake Champlain Program, $8 million per year. This money will enable the Lake Champlain Basin Program to take on more and larger projects to address excess phosphorous and other threats to the lake. It is in addition to the funding in the federal government’s annual appropriations bills.

by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Health today is reporting 227 cases of COVID-19 for Thursday. This is up 21 from yesterday and just above the 7-day average of 220. Hospitalizations and ICU have fallen dramatically the last two weeks. The CDC is easing masking recommendations because of the reduction in pressure on the health care system.

Waples Will Be First Woman of Color to Serve on State’s Top Court

Vermont State Police Jessica Robishaw, who was wanted on charges arising from the shooting of two people in the town of Holland on Jan. 1, 2022, has surrendered to the Vermont State Police. Robishaw, 34, of Orleans County turned herself in on Thursday, Feb. 24, at the state police barracks in Williston. She is charged with being an accessory after the fact to the shooting of Jason Willey and Valerie Lyon. Jan Michael Valverde, 27, of New Haven, Connecticut, was arrested on unrelated charges Jan. 18, 2022, by police in his home state.

by C.B. Hall, VermontBiz Some 150 local residents packed the dining hall of Poultney's former Green Mountain College Thursday evening to hear entrepreneur Raj Peter Bhakta describe his plans to transform the 121-acre campus into a resort complex with seemingly everything that anyone could want – and the economic base that the struggling Rutland County town has longed for since the college closed its doors in 2019. The ambitious development venture, with its price tag in the $100 million range, is likely to come to naught without the moral and financial support of the town, the latter in the form of a tax stabilization initiative on which Poultney voters will render their verdict on Town Meeting Day.

by ACCD Secretary Lindsay Kurrle It’s no secret, Vermont needs more Vermonters. The shortage of residents currently calling Vermont home impacts everything from tax rates and school funding to community infrastructure and business retention. Just look at the State’s labor force participation rate, which dropped 5% in the last two years, from 66.4% in December 2019 to 61.3% in December 2021. This decline represents 26,000 fewer Vermonters who are working or actively looking for work, as compared to 24 months ago.

​Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General TJ Donovan today announced the final approval of the $26 billion opioid agreement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen – and Johnson & Johnson. Following successful state sign-on and subdivision sign-on periods, the distributors will start releasing funds to a national administrator on April 2, 2022. Vermont will receive approximately $64 million from the agreement.

Vermont Business Magazine A citywide winter PARKING BAN will go into effect in Burlington tonight at 10pm. This begins at midnight in the downtown core – more info below. Public Works has deployed their full fleet of tractors and trucks today clearing snow from city sidewalks, bike lanes and roads. Overnight, crews will focus on scraping the roads and pushing snow to the curbs across the city. Depending on snow amounts, snow removal operations will continue into next week.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM) announces the selection of Brault's Market of Troy in the Northeast Kingdom as the second Vermont meat processing establishment in Vermont to participate in the Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) Program, allowing the small business to process product locally and ship to consumers outside of Vermont’s borders.

Vermont Business Magazine Agilent Technologies Inc and the University of Vermont announced Thursday the establishment of the Agilent Laboratory for Chemical Analysis (ALCA). The facility will be a hub for advanced instrumentation that will allow students, institutional colleagues, industrial partners, and regional high-tech start-ups to study the composition and structure of chemical samples. It is intended as a shared educational and research space that will play a central role in the education and training of undergraduate and graduate students at UVM, while also serving as a valuable technology resource to local and regional businesses.