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Vermont Business Magazine Nearly 400 Vermont Army National Guard Soldiers will return home from deployed locations over the course of several weeks, beginning March 4. Their return will conclude the largest Vermont Army National Guard deployment since 2010. Soldiers from six units are scheduled to return by early April from deployments in Kosovo, as well as in support of US Central Command.

Vermont Business Magazine Casella Waste Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: CWST announced Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Northstar Pulp & Paper Co, Inc, Northstar Disposal Corp, and certain real estate holdings on March 1, 2022. Casella is a regional vertically integrated solid waste, recycling and resource management services company based in Rutland. Northstar is a leading resource management company located in Springfield, Massachusetts, focused on recycling processing, brokerage services, and collection across the Northeast for industrial, institutional, and commercial customers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

VermontBiz In an age of rapid organizational transformation, how can executives create a thriving workplace? Learn from the CEO who is a regular on Glassdoor’s Top 100 CEOs list and who has guided his company to be one of Fortune’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the World.

Paylocity CEO Steve Beauchamp will share his insights in the March episode of 21st Century Business Forum.

Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Board of Trustees today welcomed three new members and re-elected Ron Lumbra to serve as chair. New members start their terms on the board today and include: Susan Brengle ‘85, Kristina Pisanelli ‘97, Kenny Nguyen.

Vermont Business Magazine New York-based EnergyHub, the industry-leading provider of distributed energy resource (DER) management solutions (DERMS), announced Tuesday that it acquired Packetized Energy, based in Burlington. Packetized Energy is a leading developer of software systems that enable flexible grid services from DERs and provide utilities with deep insight into grid operations. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Packetized Energy team will remain in Burlington.

by Kevin Ellis Christina Nolan is running for the US Senate. Sounds great. The more candidates - especially the more women candidates - the better. The seat has been held by Senator Patrick J Leahy since his election in 1974. Sitting US Congressman Peter Welch is running to replace Leahy. Welch is well-known, popular and the odds-on favorite to win the seat.

Vermont Business Magazine With offices in Burlington, Vermont and Montréal, Québec, Nuwave Equity Corporation has partnered with Innerlogic (Halifax, Nova Scotia) to create nuLogic – a data and analytics platform that provides real time data on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion metrics, as well as pay equity, turnover rates, and more. nuwave Equity Corporation is a collection of Black-owned organizations centered around the dismantlement of anti-Black racism, and Innerlogic is a culture analytics platform offering cutting edge software solutions for difficult to measure human impact problems.

Vermont Business Magazine The Upper Valley MedTech Collaborative is hosting a MedTech Pitch Competition on April 27th at 5pm at the Lebanon Opera House in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The winner will receive $10,000 of non-dilutive funding. Applications are open to all Northern New England-based medtech start-ups that have raised less than $2 million through institutional investment.

​Vermont State Police As the investigation continues into this morning’s reported shooting in St. Johnsbury, the Vermont State Police is seeking a vehicle in connection with the incident and would like to speak to the occupants. The vehicle in question is a gray Jeep Wrangler with Connecticut license plate AX74330. The vehicle was seen on a surveillance camera outside Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday. An image of the Jeep is included with this news release. The occupants of the vehicle should be considered potentially armed and dangerous.

Vermont Business Magazine The Cross Vermont Trail Association announces that it has met a $75,000 challenge grant awarded by the Northern Borders Regional Commission in 2021 to build the last phase of the Winooski Bridge Project that will extend the trail from the new bridge to Route 14 in East Montpelier. With donations from over 125 local individuals at the end of last year and a recently announced $75,000 grant from the State of Vermont, the CVTA has raised the $200,000 needed to complete the trail on both sides of the new Winooski Bridge built last summer.

Vermont Business Magazine The 1st of March marks the start of Women's History Month and a partnership between Vermont Works for Women and Tove Wear. Vermont Works for Women and Tove Wear are excited to announce the launch of a new collaboration to support working women in Vermont. Tove Wear, a sustainable women's workwear company, based at the AO Glass factory at 416 Pine St. in Burlington, VT, will be donating educational opportunities and marketing in support of Vermont Works for Women's mission: promoting economic justice by advancing gender equity and supporting women and youth at every stage of their career journeys.

by Representative Sally Achey For the past two months, my committee, the House Energy & Technology Committee, has been taking testimony on and debating a bill to establish a program called the “Clean Heat Standard” (CHS). The CHS is part of the Climate Action Plan put forward by the Climate Council under the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA). The CHS is designed to drive up the cost of fossil home heating fuels (oil, propane, natural gas, and kerosene) by forcing distributors to purchase “credits” to offset their products’ greenhouse gas emissions.