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Vermont Business Magazine The Agency of Natural Resources Department of Environmental Conservation announced today that Webber Discount Fuel, Inc, of Sunderland was fined $1,500 for failing to report a release of heating oil to the environment and failing to take appropriate responsive actions to protect the public and environment from the release.
In January 2019, Keith Webber of Webber Discount Fuel released fuel oil on Melendy Hill Road in South Londonderry when his delivery truck experienced a mechanical failure. Webber then left the site without taking appropriate action to contain the release and without reporting the spill to DEC. The South Londonderry Fire Department responded to the site after the release was reported by a nearby resident. Contaminated snow and soil were removed from the site after Webber, at the direction of the Agency, returned with a contractor to clean up the release.
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Vermont Business Magazine The 6th Annual Jingle Bell on December 7 at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort Hotel in Dover, VT, hosted a crowd of 189 people and raised more than $70,000 for Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) and the SVMC Deerfield Valley Campus.
“We truly enjoyed bringing our friends and neighbors from the Deerfield Valley together for this special night in support of high quality care in our communities,” said Leslie Keefe, SVHC’s vice president for corporate development. “We are grateful for the event’s success and for the generosity of our sponsors, the hard work and enthusiasm of the Jingle Bell Committee, and eager support from attendees.”
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Vermont Business Magazine US Senator Patrick Leahy, US Senator Bernie Sanders, and US Representative Peter Welch recognized 22 young Vermonters who are nominated to United States Service Academies to be members of the Class of 2024. At an annual reception in the Cedar Creek Room at the Vermont State House, nominees from across Vermont on Saturday received nomination certificates signed by each member of the Vermont Congressional Delegation.
The names of this year’s nominees, selected by Leahy, Sanders, and Welch through a competitive vetting process, and forwarded to the Academies for final decisions, are:
Mr. Oliver Austin of Essex Junction, Vermont (U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, U.S. Military Academy)
Nominated by: Leahy, Sanders, Welch
Mr. Daniel Bandler of Norwich, Vermont (U.S. Naval Academy)
Nominated by: Leahy, Sanders, Welch
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Vermont State Police On December 28, 2019, the Vermont State Police were notified of a skiing accident at the Killington Ski Resort. The lone victim, Jason Vitale, was transported to the Rutland Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Vitale was traveling at a high rate of speed on an intermediate trail, when he lost control and collided with a tree. Vitale was not wearing a helmet at the time of the collision. Vitale was quickly moved off the mountain by members of the Killington Ski Patrol, however went into cardiac arrest while being transported to the hospital where he later died as a result from his injuries.
CASE#: 19B405829
TROOPER: Det. Sgt. Jams Wright
STATION: Shaftsbury
CONTACT#: 802-442-5421
DATE/TIME: December 28, 2019 at approximately 1500 hours
LOCATION: Killington Ski Resort
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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power (GMP) is tracking multiple forecasts as teams plan to respond as quickly and safely as possible to outages from a large winter storm forecasted for the Northeast region Sunday night through Monday into Tuesday. Meteorologists say freezing rain, wind and wet snow are all possible throughout Vermont, with the southern part of the state - Rutland, Bennington, Windsor and Windham counties - expected to see the most ice accumulation and possible damage from this storm.
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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM) welcomes applications from Vermont businesses seeking to vend at the Vermont Building at the Eastern States Exposition (Big E) located in West Springfield, Massachusetts from September 18 – October 4, 2020. Help grow your Vermont business and the state economy with this special opportunity at the Vermont building to reach a larger market.
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Vermont Business Magazine A Vermont based Web Development and Digital Marketing firm is celebrating its 20th year of business on January 1, 2020. Eternity has launched over 800 websites throughout the years and will be recognizing its 20 years of success by releasing an all-new website of their own. In addition, they have decided to donate a website to a non-profit of their choosing and acknowledge the many non-profits they have had the pleasure of working with.
The new website for Eternity will represent the growth that the company has endured, by displaying a unique and innovative design, along with an extensive portfolio that represents both non-profits and businesses.
The chosen non-profit for Eternity’s donation will be announced across social media channels at the end of January. Eternity is excited about this donation because a lot of success can come from a well-designed and developed website.
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Public Assets Institute State of Working Vermont 2019, published in a readable chart-book format with brief explanatory text, takes a close look at a number of indicators to see how Vermonters and their families were faring economically at the end of 2018—the latest year for which most data are available—and how conditions have changed, for better or worse, in recent years. It also points out that Vermont’s level of public investment has been flat for a quarter of a century and that our failure to make timely public investments is creating serious consequences for Vermonters.
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Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment rise last week after falling the week before, which itself had followed two weeks of very high numbers. After a long period of very low numbers, claims have been higher over the last two months and now have entered the holiday period, which typically brings with it wild swings in claims, as retailers hire and then lay off seasonal workers.
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Vermont Business Magazine That is the crucial message behind the Second Annual Vermont Tourism Day, slated for January 15, 2020, at the State House in Montpelier. The event will highlight the importance of tourism to Vermont and advocate for increased tourism funding to encourage more out-of-state tourists to visit. Tourism contributes more than $2.5B in spending to the Vermont economy each year. The most recent Vermont Tourism Benchmark Study showed that the industry supports more than 32,000 jobs – roughly 10 percent of the state’s total workforce – and generates upward of $391 million in tax revenue, saving the average household $1,450 in taxes annually.
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by Ethan Tapper We humans have a very strange idea of what a well-tended woodlot should look like. To many people the epitome of good forest management is the image of towering overstory trees over a bare forest floor, their sightline is dotted with massive, evenly-spaced identical trunks.
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by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine In 1976 a skiing prodigy from Southern Vermont not only achieved international fame, but within a few years would forever alter the future of snow sports. This fellow used a little known type of ski to win the first ever American Olympic medal in his sport – a feat not again achieved for 42 years. Within a half-dozen years he would again change the entire industry by popularizing a new way of Nordic skiing.