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Vermont Business Magazine Today Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos announced the official results of the Vermont Primary Elections held on Tuesday, August 14. Vote totals and winners for all statewide offices were certified today by Secretary Condos and a designee from each of Vermont’s three major parties. Vote totals and winners for County office, State Senate, and State Representative were canvassed at the town and county level.

Official election results for the August 14^th Primary Election can be viewed online at the Secretary of State’s website.

Vermont Business Magazine Mike Winters of Juice for the People shared with City Market last week that he is closing down operations as of August 24. These operations include the popular juice bar at City Market’s South End store, farmers’ market stands, a booth at the UVM Medical Center and leased farmland at the Intervale Center. Back in 2015, when City Market was contemplating how to offer fresh juice to its customers and Members, it embarked on a partnership with Winters. This partnership resulted in a Juice Pop-Up in City Market’s busy Downtown store’s parking lot during the summers of 2015, 2016 and 2017. The Pop-Up success with City Market customers eventually led the Co-op to invite Winters to lease space in the South End store when it opened last November.

Vermont Business Magazine Tim Burke, Director of Brokerage Services for White + Burke Real Estate Investment Advisors, Inc in Burlington, has announced the sale of 28 Vernon Street, a 50,000 square foot, Class A office building in downtown Brattleboro on behalf of Marlboro College. The building was formerly occupied by the college’s graduate school prior to its conversion to a multi-tenant office building. The sale price was $3.0 million.

"We are pleased to be selling this valuable facility to someone local," said Marlboro College President Kevin Quigley. "Although the building served us well for nearly 20 years, it is time for us to focus resources on our educational mission rather than being landlords. This comes at a vital time, as the college works to build on its academic program and revitalize enrollment in response to current market pressures."

Vermont State Police Wednesday evening at about 7 p.m., search crews recovered a body from Lake Champlain in Vermont near the Rouses Point Bridge. The body, preliminarily identified as that of Andrew Lynch, 42, of St Albans, will be transported to the Chief Medical Examiner's Office in Burlington for an autopsy to determine cause and manner of death. Emergency crews including the Vermont State Police had been searching for the missing man in Lake Champlain near the Rouses Point Bridge between Alburgh and New York state since Tuesday. He was seen going into the water in the vicinity of the bridge.

Agencies assisting the Vermont State Police in the search include the Grand Isle County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Border Patrol, which has provided a helicopter.

***Update 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018***

Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Medical Center, along with the UVM Health Network’s other affiliated Vermont hospitals, will present their fiscal year 2019 budgets to the Green Mountain Care Board on Wednesday, August 22, in Burlington at Contois Auditorium at City Hall 9 am. Leaders from the UVM Medical Center, Central Vermont Medical Center and Porter Medical Center will outline patient, employee and community priorities. The combined Network budget represents a 2.5 percent increase in year-over-year net patient revenue, below the 3.2 percent guideline issued by the GMCB.

In addition, to address the affordability of health insurance, the UVM Medical Center proposes a commercial rate growth of 4 percent. Both Central Vermont Medical Center and Porter Medical Center are proposing 2.8 percent increases.

Vermont Business Magazine Chip Milnor is a big man, in stature and in heart. Saturday afternoon, beneath the Last Mile Ride (LMR) tent in Gifford Park in Randolph, friends, family and fellow bikers cheered him as he stood to be recognized as the event’s top fundraiser with $8,525, bringing the 13^th annual Last Mile Ride fundraising total to $110,000 to support end-of-life care for central Vermonters—and the grand total to more than $760,000 since the inaugural LMR in 2006.

Vermont Business Magazine Today, Governor Phil Scott issued the following statement opposing the EPA's replacement of the Clean Power plan. Vermont has been struggling with an increase in emissions itself in recent years, triggered in large part by lower-cost petroleum which has increased driving and home heating.

Vermont Business Magazine A seasoned business leader is set to lead a complete digital transformation of a 119-year-old iconic Vermont brand. Vermont’s Original, LLC, based in Lyndonville, has announced Reid Greenberg as its new President. Greenberg, whose diverse career has ranged from leadership roles at eBay, Keurig Dr. Pepper, and Seventh Generation was hired to accelerate the Bag Balm brand by leveraging new and current customers and building out a robust eCommerce business.

Most recently, Greenberg was EVP at Kantar Consulting where he advised many of the largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the world on their eCommerce and retail strategies and emphasizing the notion of interconnected commerce as the foundation of growth.

Vermont Business Magazine Northwestern Medical Center opened its newest specialty practice – Northwestern Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) on Monday, August 13, seeing the first patients in the office’s Doctors Office Commons location. NMC celebrated with a brief ribbon cutting before patients began arriving early that morning. CEO Jill Berry Bowen welcomed the practice’s two new providers, Dr Kahren Aydinyan and audiologist Stephanie Maloney, AuD.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont State Police barracks across the Green Mountain State now have the capability to accept unused and unwanted prescription medication from members of the public year-round. This expansion of secure drop box locations to the lobbies of state police barracks across the state will give Vermonters a convenient and safe way to remove these “most dangerous leftovers” from their homes. The service is made possible through a new agreement with the Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department, which administers the prescription drug take-back program statewide. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which spearheads the semi-annual National Drug Take Back Day initiative, then will safely destroy these drugs.

​Vermont Business Magazine For the second year in a row, Rutland Regional has been named a “Best Regional Hospital” by U.S. News & World Report for 2018-2019. Rutland Regional is the only hospital in Vermont to receive a “Best Regional Hospital” designation. Out of 4500 hospitals evaluated nationwide, only 520 received “Best Regional Hospital” status.

Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center (SVRCC) in partnership with Dr. Lixia Ellis, MD, PhD, a board-certified dermatologist of Dartmouth Hitchcock Putnam Physicians and with the American Academy of Dermatology will offer a free full-body skin screening from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, September 15, 2018. The skin screening will take place at SVMC Dermatology, 140 Hospital Drive, Suite 205, in Bennington.