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Vermont Business Magazine Norwich University will mark its 200th anniversary with a day of special events at the site of its founding in Norwich, Vermont, on Saturday, September 28. The public is invited to join Norwich officials, faculty, staff, alumni, students and friends for a full day of activities on the Town Green in Norwich, Vermont.

Vermont Business Magazine Castleton University welcomes all alumni, students, and parents, and community members to its annual Homecoming and Family Weekend. This year's event will run from Friday, Oct. 11 to Sunday, Oct. 13, and guests of all ages are invited to enjoy a weekend full of activities, including athletic events, a theater production, library mini golf, family fun zone, and food trucks.

Homecoming Weekend kicks off at 4 p.m. Friday with a basket raffle to benefit the Student Nurses Association, the annual Men's Lacrosse Doug Mackenzie Alumni Game, College Store sale, and more.

Vermont Business Magazine The Regional Development Corporations (RDCs) of Vermont, in partnership with the Department of Labor (VDOL) and the Vermont State Workforce Development Board (SWDB), have announced the dates for 12 regional workforce development summits (October and November), which they will host this fall to support state efforts to increase the size and skill of Vermont’s workforce.

Vermont Business Magazine A national grant program dedicated to the rehabilitation of historic properties and preserving community resources is being renamed the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants program in honor of the Vermonter who dedicated his life to preserving the legacy and historic icons of rural America.

Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power announced it is divesting its pension fund from fossil fuel companies. With the reinvestment of about $13.5 million finalized this week, the company’s $180 million pension fund is 99.2% divested, and positive impacts are expected on financial returns. The final .8% of investments will be divested by the end of 2020. Company President and CEO Mary Powell made the announcement alongside environmentalist Bill McKibben during a Climate Week divestment event in New York City Thursday evening.

Vermont Business Magazine The Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce has announced the Leadership Champlain’s Class of 2020. Leadership Champlain is a professional development and community engagement program founded by the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce in 1988.  Over the course of ten months, participants explore the top issues facing different sectors of our community. The program is designed to be a low-cost, high-impact professional development opportunity for LCRCC member businesses to offer emerging leaders on their staff. 

Vermont Business Magazine An AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) team is serving with Vermont Historical Society (VHS) from September 19 - October 18. The team is helping preserve the original windows of the Vermont History Center (originally designated as the Spaulding Graded School circa 1891) in Barre. The AmeriCorps NCCC team of nine from the North Central Region campus in Vinton, Iowa, is scraping the windows so new paint can be applied, and repairing and glazing the existing glass which will allow VHS to preserve the historic windows for many years into the future.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Creamery, the mission-driven makers of consciously-crafted delicious dairy, is headed to market with their new cultured butter, now available in grocery stores nationwide. Made in Websterville with fresh, high-quality cream from Vermont family farms, the new 82% butterfat cultured butter is now available in half-pound, two-stick packs in Sea Salt and Unsalted varieties. Packaged in 100 percent recycled cartons, Vermont Creamery’s new Cultured Butter is now on shelves for $3.99 SRP.

Vermont Business Magazine Casella Waste Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: CWST), a regional solid waste, recycling and resource management services company, has priced the previously announced remarketing of $11.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Business Finance Authority of the State of New Hampshire Solid Waste Disposal Revenue Bonds (Casella Waste Systems, Inc. Project) Series 2013. The Bonds will bear interest at a rate of 2.95% from October 1, 2019 through final maturity. The Bonds were originally issued on April 4, 2013 and have a final maturity date of April 1, 2029. 

Pursuant to the indenture under which the Bonds were offered, the interest rate period under which the Bonds were previously issued is expiring on October 1, 2019, and accordingly, the Bonds will be remarketed at a new interest rate for a new interest rate period.

Vermont Business Magazine Today at the Vermont Chamber’s 2019 Manufacturing Summit, the Vermont-Quebec Aerospace Trade Corridor was officially extended to Connecticut with a signing ceremony of an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, Aéro Montréal and Aerospace Components Manufacturers (ACM). Over the past six years, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce has established and prioritized the Vermont-Quebec Aerospace Trade Corridor, building cross-border trade partnerships to increase economic activity for Vermont manufacturers.

Vermont Business Magazine The State’s Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) is beginning to receive initial testing results for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl (PFAS) levels in public drinking water. The sampling work is part of Act 21, which requires all Public Community and Non-Transient, Non-Community drinking water systems in Vermont to test for PFAS by December 1, 2019. To date, 45 public drinking water systems have sampled for PFAS out of a total of 590 systems that have been requested to sample for PFAS. Testing shows that the water in each of the 45 systems currently meets Vermont’s drinking water standard requiring PFAS concentrations below 20 parts per trillion (ppt).