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Vermont Business Magazine Vail Resorts, Inc has announced an unprecedented number of on-mountain projects planned for the 2022-23 North American ski and ride season in what will be Vail's largest single-year investment into the guest experience. The sweeping set of 19 new chairlifts, including 12 high-speed lifts, a new 8-person high-speed gondola and 6 new fixed-grip lifts, is part of Vail Resorts' $315 million to $325 million capital investment plan for 2022, which is designed to materially reduce wait times, increase uphill capacity and create more lift-served terrain. The projects span 14 resorts coast-to-coast including Stowe Mountain Resort and Mount Snow. Also, Vail previously announced that Okemo's Quantum lift is being upgraded from a quad to a high-speed 6-person lift – now named Quantum Six.

Vermont Business Magazine Find a great job, meet collaborators and be inspired at the 2021 Vermont Tech Jam. This annual career and tech expo, powered by Seven Days newspaper, is back — in person, and in Burlington — on Saturday, October 23, at the new Hula lakeside tech campus. Dozens of local startups and technology companies will be exhibiting and hiring.

Vermont Business Magazine RCxRules, a provider of revenue cycle and HCC coding automation based in Burlington, today announced a partnership with athenahealth, Inc through the company's Marketplace program. As part of the athenahealth Marketplace, this newly integrated application is now available to athenahealth's growing network of healthcare providers to automatically review 100 percent of charges from the athenahealth EHR, lab systems, and other clinical systems to reduce customer claim holds.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Supreme Court issued its ruling today in an appeal brought by ACLU of Vermont on behalf of a Vermont couple who were charged with possession of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms, following a warrantless search by Border Patrol agents during an August 2018 “roving patrol” stop on Route 105 in Jay, Vermont. Specifically, the Court ruled that “where federal border officials on roving patrol obtain evidence in a manner that violates Article 11, that evidence may not be introduced at trial in a state criminal proceeding” because “[t]he intrusion into defendants’ privacy was not somehow lessened because the search was conducted by a federal agent,” and “such evidence ‘eviscerates our most sacred rights, impinges on individual privacy, perverts our judicial process, distorts any notion of fairness, and encourages official misconduct.’”

Vermont Business Magazine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH), OneCare Vermont and the University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN) today announced a governance change that will make the UVMHN the sole parent organization for OneCare’s work moving forward. Until now UVM Medical Center shared that role with D-HH. OneCare, a Vermont-based statewide accountable care organization (ACO), will remain its own legal entity and will maintain a governance board that includes managers from throughout the state that represent the full continuum of care and consumers.

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott, the Agency of Human Services and the Department of Health on Thursday night announced that Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine booster doses will be available starting today to people in Vermont who are 80 years of age and older. The announcement follows the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) expanded emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine, to permit a third booster shot to be administered 6 months after certain individuals received their second dose. Following this morning’s announcement from CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, the state will expand eligibility for booster shots to people aged 18 to 64 with underlying medical conditions on Friday, October 1. It is anticipated these conditions will be more specifically defined by the CDC later today.

Vermont Business Magazine For the eleventh year in a row, Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel, Darn Tough Vermont and Smartwool have teamed up to donate over $13,500 worth of socks and support to local nonprofits serving the area's homeless. This fundraising event is a joint effort to help provide warm Merino wool socks and much-needed support to people experiencing homelessness in preparation for the colder months.

Vermont Business Magazine More Vermonters than ever have made the switch to an electric vehicle, taking advantage of incentives and the many cost-saving advantages of driving electric. Drive Electric week begins Saturday, September 25 and concludes Saturday, October 2.

Vermont Business Magazine In a recent meeting of the Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce, Holger Stoltze, a representative of Yamaha Unified Communications, Inc, and member of the chamber’s board of directors, announced an important and timely product donation of Yamaha’s YVC-300 Portable USB & Bluetooth Speakerphones. These YVC-300 systems are intended to be used with online conference applications like Zoom or Microsoft Teams and are ideal for small business settings of up to 10 participants.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Chamber of Commerce welcomed six new Directors to the Board: Mané Alves of Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea Company, Kathy Austin of Community National Bank, Keith Jones of National Life, Teresa Kajenski of Fothergill Segale & Valley, Roger Nishi of Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom, and Chiuho Sampson of A Single Pebble.

Vermont Business Magazine University of Vermont faculty attracted $227 million in total extramural support for research in the last fiscal year—a new all-time high in the university’s history that will help ensure the health and well-being of our planet and further drive economic activity. A clear example is the highly successful, and relatively new company, Benchmark Space Systems. Benchmark already has its thruster technology aboard satellites in space, following the successful SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-2 small satellite rideshare mission this summer.

Vermont Business Magazine Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice (CVHHH) is taking an additional step to further protect the health and safety of its employees and community. As of Friday, October 1, 2021, CVHHH will require all employees (clinicians, administrative, part-time, and per-diem staff, and volunteers) to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing at its headquarters on Granger Road, Berlin. CVHHH staff were made aware of this mandate at the end of August. The State of Vermont is employing the same mandate for state workers.