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Vermont Business Magazine “The ‘academic freedom’ at Marlboro is its greatest gift,” according to the recently published Princeton Review book, The Best Value Colleges: 200 Schools with Exceptional ROI for Your Tuition Investment. “Students ‘can study whatever [they] want in great depth’ and this makes the academic work ‘deeply personal’ and ‘that much more enriching.”

Marlboro College is profiled as one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price, according to 2019 edition of Princeton Review annual guide, published by Penguin Random House / Princeton Review Books. With an academic rating of 93, an ROI (return on investment) rating of 87, and a “professors interesting” rating of 99, the education services company gives significant endorsement for the value of the Marlboro curricular model.

Vermont Business Magazine The Agency of Natural Resources Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced today that Central Maine & Quebec Railway US Inc, owner and operator of a railroad maintenance facility in Newport, was fined $12,000 for improperly managing hazardous materials and releasing hazardous materials to the environment. During a May 2018 compliance inspection of the railroad maintenance facility, DEC personnel found absorbent materials contaminated with petroleum in open, unmarked containers. DEC officials also discovered petroleum in the soil, indicating that petroleum from railway maintenance activities had been released onto the ground. The company was also keeping unidentified hazardous waste in a service building at the facility.

​Vermont Business Magazine The Agency of Natural Resources announced today that Walter Renfrew, owner and operator of Cherokee Connection in Orange, was fined $7,500 for operating a salvage yard without first obtaining a permit. Due to the inherent risk in managing hazardous waste, salvage yard businesses must follow state hazardous waste management regulations. Additionally, Vermont salvage yards must hold a municipal Certificate of Approved Location (COAL), which considers appropriate siting of the business, including its proximity to schools, residences, and drinking water sources. Once a salvage yard operator secures a COAL, a state-level salvage yard permit is required annually.

Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan Like many Vermonters, I am troubled by President Trump’s declaration of a national “emergency” to build his border wall along the southern border of the United States. I have serious questions about the legality of this declaration. I am also concerned by the detrimental impact this declaration may have on the State of Vermont. In declaring a national emergency, President Trump seeks to raid funds already designated for other purposes, diverting those funds to pay for an unnecessary border wall.

Vermont Business Magazine Imerys Talc America, Inc, along with Imerys Talc Vermont, Inc and Imerys Talc Canada, Inc, on February 13 initiated voluntary Chapter 11 cases in Delaware. The filing companies said in a press release that they reached this decision after evaluating a range of strategies to safeguard their long-term business interests and address their historic talc-related liabilities in the United States. As previously reported, Johnson & Johnson has been embroiled in lawsuits related to asbestos being found in talc-related products. A jury in Missouri last July ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $4.69 billion to 22 women who said asbestos in talc caused their ovarian cancer. The verdict is on appeal. Both Johnson & Johnson and its talc supplier Imerys say the claims are without merit.

Vermont Business Magazine Healthy Living Market & Cafe today announces plans to open a new location in Williston, Vermont.

Vermont Business Magazine GPMS of Cornwall, Vermont, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Bell for GPMS' Foresight MX predictive health monitoring system on Bell 407 helicopter models. The agreement allows Bell to leverage the industry's first true predictive health management system for helicopters and rotating industrial equipment to enhance the safety, and reduce operating costs and unscheduled maintenance events for helicopter operators.

Foresight MX is a compact, lightweight system that is simple to install even where space constraints exist. Distributed as the Bell 407 HUMS and available exclusively through Aeronautical Accessories, a Bell Brand, the GPMS solution provides innovative signal filtering technology and prognostic algorithms which enhance reporting accuracy.  The cloud-based interface provides intuitive, actionable information that enables immediate ROI by reducing operating cost and unscheduled downtime.

Vermont Business Magazine The Senate Committee on Committees has appointed Lisa Ryan of Rutland to serve on the Vermont Commission on Women. Lisa Ryan is the Program Manager of the Rutland County Community Justice Center at BROC Community Action, where she provides restorative justice practices, including Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) and Restorative Circles, to the offender population. This work involves addressing crime and conflict through dispute resolution, training community volunteers, and overseeing reentry and reparative programs.

Lisa Ryan, Vermont Commission on Women photo.

Vermont Business Magazine A new heart health screening will soon be available to local patients at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC). It will allow people to see their risk of a heart-related health event before symptoms arise.

Vermont Business Magazine Do you have a love for physical fitness and for philanthropy? Set your passions up on a date at the 2019 Point to Point, powered by VSECU. The cycling and running event was created in 2002 to raise funds and awareness for the Vermont Foodbank’s mission to end the growing problem of hunger in Vermont. One in four Vermonters are not sure where their next meal is coming from and, according to the Vermont Foodbank, the majority of those people are Vermont’s most vulnerable residents: children and seniors. Over the years, this event has become the Foodbank’s largest fundraiser, bringing in well over $100,000 annually to support their efforts. 

Vermont Business Magazine With an eye towards improving care for individuals with chronic illness, reducing repeat hospitalizations and improving patient outcomes, the VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region recently upgraded their in-home telehealth technology so that patients utilizing the system can get a check-up every day in the comfort of their homes. Telehealth provides daily nursing support in addition to regularly scheduled home visits. The new monitors from Resideo (formerly Honeywell), a leading life care solution provider that creates advanced remote monitoring solutions that help improve patient lives with better clinical outcomes and reduced cost.