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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.

Vermont State Police On the above date and time, the Vermont State Police, Brighton Fire Department, and Groveton EMS, responded to a single vehicle crash on VT RT 105 near Notch Pond Road in the Town of Brunswick, VT. Through the Troopers investigation it was determined that he vehicle was towing a trailer and being operated by Kenneth Thompson of Pittsburgh, NH.

Vehicle #1 was traveling west on VT RT 105 when the operator lost control of the vehicle and trailer while going around a corner, causing it to go off the roadway, colliding with trees before overturning. Thompson was pronounced dead at the scene from the injuries sustained in the crash.

CASE#: 21A503277

TROOPER: B. Connor

STATION: Derby

CONTACT#: 334-8881

Vermont Business Magazine September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and the state’s mental health and public health officials are asking all Vermonters to take this time to learn about the supports available for themselves or people they know who may be at risk of suicide. Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in Vermont, and the second leading cause of death among Vermonters ages 15 to 34.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Health today reported more than double the cases from yesterday with 268 new cases of COVID-19 (121 Wednesday). While many regions of the country and world experienced a sharp increase and sharp decline of Delta variant cases in a 7-9 week window, Vermont is now into its 10th week and has shown a slower ascent and still no plateau in new cases. Case counts in the Northeast Kingdom are among the most stubbornly high, with Orleans County alone reporting 66 new cases today (by far the most in the state) and 293 over the last two weeks. The VDH also reported today no deaths, which remain at 301 statewide (none since Tuesday).

Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) and U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (RD) announced $3 million in funding for economic-development projects in Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. The NBRC has received funding in 2019, 2020 and 2021 for these awards, reinforcing the strategic objectives of both agencies.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) is announcing that the National Park Service (NPS) has awarded $967,933 in Save America’s Treasures grants to three Vermont projects. Save America’s Treasures funds the preservation, rehabilitation and conservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections. Shelburne Farms will receive $500,000 for rehabilitation of the 1891 Breeding Barn. The State of Vermont will receive two grants: $226,725 for drainage work to preserve the Senator Justin S Morrill State Historic Site, and $241,208 to preserve Paul Aschenbach’s 'Sculpture on the Highway' art installations.

Vermont Business Magazine Secretary of State Jim Condos and State Archivist Tanya Marshall announced today that the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA), a division of the Secretary of State’s Office, has been awarded a $40,000 grant to support initiatives of the State Archives’ Vermont Historical Records Program.