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Vermont Business Magazine Burlington City Arts is bringing Festival of Fools back to downtown Burlington from July 30-August 1, 2021. Presented by Community Bank NA, this year's festival marks a return to the Church Street Marketplace and City Hall Park after having to cancel the beloved celebration in 2020 due to the pandemic.
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Vermont Business Magazine Rootstock Publishing, a Montpelier-based publisher and imprint of Multicultural Media, Inc., announces the August 17th release of Venice Beach, a coming-of-age novel by William Mark Habeeb, of Arlington, Virginia. Venice Beach follows a thirteen-year-old boy who flees an abusive household for the lure of sunny California. It is 1968, and Venice Beach, or “Slum-by-the-Sea,” is steeped in the culture of drugs, war, and sex. But for Moon—a name he chooses for himself—the culture’s outer chaos matches the intensity of his inner chaos: his quest for light, love, and acceptance as he tries to erase the legacy of his hurtful past.
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Vermont Business Magazine Airbnb has announced the #1 most hospitable Host in the entire state of Vermont -- Eva from Burlington, with her listing Vermont River House, Tiny House by Winooski Falls. Airbnb released a national report highlighting the most hospitable Host in each of the 50 US states. These Hosts have achieved the most 100% 5-star reviews in the categories of Cleanliness, Check-In, and Communication in their respective states -- with a minimum of 100 reviews.
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Vermont Business Magazine The Addison County Chamber of Commerce has announced the grand opening of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices-Vermont Reality Group offices at 32 Merchants Row in Middlebury.
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by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Today, Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that following two days of mediation, the City of Burlington, 100 Bank LLC (Redstone), and BTC Mall Associates LLC have reached a global settlement where all suits and appeals already have been or will be dropped, clearing a path for the major mixed-used CityPlace development and reconnected streets to move forward, and releasing all Burlington Development Review Board members and city employees from any claim of inappropriate action. 100 Bank will get $400,000 in the settlement.
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by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine The seasonally-adjusted statewide unemployment rate for June 2021 was 3.1 percent. This reflects an increase of one-tenth of one percent from last month’s revised estimate. Vermont now ranks sixth lowest in the nation, with New Hampshire third lowest at 2.9 percent and Nebraska still first at 2.5 percent. New Mexico and Connecticut are highest at 7.9 percent. The US rate was 5.9 percent.
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Vermont Business Magazine In support of our State Partnership Program, Soldiers and Airmen of the Vermont National Guard are traveling to Senegal for two weeks to participate in a medical exercise.
18 medical professionals with the Vermont National Guard will travel to St. Louis, Senegal. They will work side-by-side with Senegalese counterparts to support and build relationships in both military and civilian environments.
"Participating in partnership exercises like this benefit the Vermont National Guard by placing them in a forward environment," said Lt. Col Chris Gookin, deputy state surgeon, Vermont National Guard. “It also provides staff members the opportunity to work in more austere conditions, to push them outside of their comfort zone, and to build relationships with their Senegalese health care partners.”
The Vermont National Guard has supported multiple medical exercises across Senegal, most recently in Kolda in 2019.
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Public Assets Institute Vermont should celebrate the recent announcement that the gap in earnings between men and women was the smallest in the country in 2019. According to a study by the National Women’s Law Center, the typical female Vermont worker earned about 91 cents for every $1 earned by the typical male worker. The gap closed, in part, because median earnings for women working full time year round rose 5.6 percent from the previous year. The bad news was that median earnings for men fell a little more than 1 percent.
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The Vermont State Police is identifying the victim in a hot-air-balloon fatality on Thursday as Brian Boland, 72, of Post Mills, Vermont. Boland was the pilot. Investigation into the circumstances surrounding this accident is being turned over to the NTSB and FAA.
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Vermont Business Magazine The Executive Committee of the University of Vermont’s Board of Trustees today endorsed a requirement that students be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by the time they arrive on campus for the Fall semester.
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The hearing follows a new CDC report finding 2020 was the deadliest year for overdose deaths on record
Vermont Business Magazine Subcommittee Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) Thursday announced that the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security will hold a hearing Wednesday, July 21 at 10 a.m. ET titled, “Addressing Disparities in Life Expectancy.”
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Vermont Business Magazine Saturday, July 17th WDEV will celebrate 90 years of broadcasting from whence it all began- live from Stowe Street in Waterbury. Stowe Street will be closed to traffic from Bidwell Lane to Main Street to allow WDEV to broadcast live from 8am until 2pm. Saturday programs including The Trading Post, Music to Go to the Dump By, For the Birds and In the Garden will all take place live on Stowe Street. Listeners are encouraged to stop by to enjoy cake and ice cream, share memories and meet the WDEV personalities.