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Vermont Business Magazine The State of Vermont, Department of Economic Development, has awarded FoodScience Corporation an education and training program grant worth over $100,000. Williston-based FoodScience Corporation will match the grant and invest in developing employees. For over 30 years, Vermont Training Program (VTP) has been offering performance-based workforce training grants. This is the first year in FoodScience’s 40-year Vermont history that they have applied for and been awarded a grant from VTP.

“Attracting and retaining talented, hardworking Vermonters is a critical part of my Administration’s efforts to rebuild our workforce, which makes programs like this – which invest in employees – so valuable,” said Governor Phil Scott.

by Robert Keren; Photos by Todd Balfour, Brett Simison, and Yeager Anderson The Middlebury College Class of 2018 gave a standing ovation to author Isabel Wilkerson for her stirring Commencement address on May 27, 2018, in which she called on the graduates to express radical empathy in their lives.The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist said basic empathy does not go far enough in the "dangerously fragmented world" we live in.

Vermont Business Magazine Goddard College, a pioneer in progressive and innovative education in Plainfield, has launched a master’s-level concentration in Embodiment Studies. This concentration honors the intelligence of the body and its capacity for insight and liberation with respect to lived bodies, social bodies, and the living earth.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Lake Monsters fans will be cheering on the starting pitcher at every home game to see how fast he can throw and how much cash a lucky CHAMP’s Kids Club member will get in a 529 college savings plan. Vermont Student Assistance Corp is teaming up with the Lake Monsters to help families get a start on saving for education and training after high school. How much VSAC will deposit into a 529 college savings account will depend on how fast the first pitch is – say it’s 92 mph, then a lucky CHAMP’s Kids Club member will get $92.

Vermont Business Magazine iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc (CSE: IAN, OTCQB: ITHUF), which owns, operates, and partners with licensed cannabis operations throughout the United States including a plant in Brandon, with plans to open a second dispensary in Williston, has announced its financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2018. All amounts expressed are in USD.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Agency of Transportation (VTrans) continue to investigate detections of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater in and around the Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport in Clarendon, they announced in a statement early Wednesday.

Vermont Business Magazine Ben & Jerry's doesn't usually let our whole fan community know every time a Scoop Shop gets a new scooper – unless they're part of a certain famously dysfunctional family, that is. We're excited to announce that Buster Bluth, the notoriously over-coddled Bluth sibling of arrested development fame, joined the Ben & Jerry's team for a day on May 17th at our Burbank Scoop Shop where he whipped up his very own sundae creation, The Bluth Banana Stand Sundae.

Vermont Business Magazine US Senator Patrick Leahy and Governor Phil Scott today joined housing and transportation advocates, local and state officials, Montpelier Mayor Anne Watson and many others to celebrate the summertime groundbreaking of the 1 Taylor Street project. The site, currently a parking lot, will become home to a ground-level transit center to provide public transportation throughout the city and the region, and serve as the Greyhound bus hub for Montpelier. In addition, 30 mixed income apartments will be built above the transit center, providing needed housing in the core of the downtown.

Vermont Business Magazine Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger and Aviation Director Gene Richards today announced that Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the Burlington International Airport credit rating to Baa2 from Baa3 (ratings table below), and revised the Airport’s credit outlook from positive to stable. This is the second credit rating upgrade BTV has earned since 2014 and represents its highest rating since prior to the multiple downgrades of the airport in 2010 due to revelations of serious financial mismanagement involving a separate city division, Burlington Telecom. The airport already in 2009 suffered from AirTran and its popular direct flight to Baltimore (BWI) cutting service. BTV's credit rating has not completely recovered from those events despite a better financial situation and additional flights. It previously had a rating of Baa1.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan announced that Moretown Landfill, Inc (MLI), has agreed to pay the State of Vermont $180,000 in civil penalties and an additional $20,000 to fund a supplemental environmental project (SEP) to resolve environmental claims brought against it by the State.

Vermont Business Magazine Secretary of State Jim Condos and State Archivist Tanya Marshall announced today that early Vermont newspapers have been added to Newspapers.com and can be researched online for free by residents. Through a partnership with Ancestry.com, and its subsidiary Newspapers.com, the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA), a division within the Office of the Vermont Secretary of State, continues to improve access to many of the state’s most valuable records. The Vermont Department of Libraries, which has microfilmed hundreds of Vermont newspapers over the past several decades, transferred its newspapers microfilm reels to VSARA in 2017.

Vermont Business Magazine RE/MAX INTEGRA, New England today released its 2018 Spring Market Trends Report that shows New England is largely a sellers' market, with few exceptions. Low inventory coupled with strong economic factors has led to intense competition, driving up prices and pushing buyers to expand their horizons and think outside of the box. The annual report evaluated data from most regions across Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, looking at pricing, volume, and general trends in residential real estate and luxury markets.