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Vermont Business Magazine A Vermont estate designed by award-winning architect Brad Rabinowitz will sell to the highest bidder at auction on October 5th through leading global auction firm Concierge Auctions. Set on more than 208 acres, 2295 Moretown Mountain Road isdesigned to seamlessly integrate with its surroundings, boasting floor toceiling windows andpanoramic nature views.

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott and Senator Patrick Leahy today issued the following statement on President Trump's nomination of Christina Nolan to be Vermont's next US Attorney. Leahy and Scott recommended the Burlington attorney to the president in June.

Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims fell under 300 claims last week and remain at a historically low level. Claims have been falling steadily since early July. Claims also are lower than they were the same time last year, which has been the case for most weeks in 2017. For the week of September 16, 2017, there were 294 claims, 12 fewer than than they were last week and 56 fewer than they were a year ago.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets has announced the availability of over $1M in grants for the FY18 grant cycle.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Public Safety (DPS) has received a $329,378 Fire Prevention and Safety grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Vermont’s congressional delegation announced Friday. This grant will help DPS’ Division of Fire Safety implement “Fire Safe 802,” a statewide, rural home fire safety education project to protect Vermont’s most vulnerable residents, including children, seniors and people with disabilities.Working with local fire departments, the Division of Fire Safety will conduct home safety surveys, provide education on safety hazards and install smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in homes that need them.

Fire Safe 802 will build on past fire prevention efforts and is designed to minimize the incidence of death and injuries caused by fire and fire-related hazards.

Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont/Porter Medical Center in Middlebury announced today a new, three-year contract with the union representing the Porter nursing staff that will run through September 30, 2020. The registered nurses of the Porter Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals voted on Thursday to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement, their second contract since organizing in 2013. The contract was reached after four months of negotiations.

by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine The owner of the Three Stallion Inn in Randolph, Jesse "Sam" Sammis, has sold the iconic property to a prep school in Connecticut, of which he is a graduate. After nearly a year of research, planning, and a site visit/inspection in April by members of the Board of Trustees, Brunswick School in Greenwich announced on Tuesday it took ownership of its new campus on September 14.

The property encompasses more than 650 acres of wilderness, hiking trails, and open fields — providing the ideal environment for a permanent, fully integrated, off-campus wilderness-education and applied-classroom-learning program now under development by Brunswick faculty and school leaders, Headmaster Thomas W Philip said.

Vermont Business MagazineVermont Systems will presentthe 2017 Special Olympics Vermont Fall Games September 23-24at South Burlington High School, Dorset Park, and the Burlington Country Club. Nearly 400 athletes and Unified partners will compete in Athletics (track and field), golf, soccer, and softball.

Vermont Business Magazine Parker Riehle, the president of the Vermont Ski Areas Association, known as Ski Vermont, will not be leaving the organization after all. On August 29 he was named the new president and CEO of the Colorado-based National Ski Areas Association. Riehle was to take over the position on January 1, 2018, replacing Michael Berry, who is retiring after 25 years. The NSAA made no mention of the change in plans other than to announce that the search for a new president had resumed.

Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets (AAFM) announced a suite of projects aimed at protecting and restoring the Lake Carmi watershed. The Lake Carmi Implementation Team will lead the coordination of these projects and provide regular updates to the community.

Vermont Business Magazine Helping our economy grow by developing tools and providing business assistance is the core of Vermont’s economic development plan. Putting this assistance together to benefit Lamoille County residents is what Lamoille Economic Development Corporation (LEDC) has done with its half-million dollars in available funding. Growing businesses often need financing beyond what their primary bank is able to lend them. Small businesses may need loans too small for banks to find profitable. LEDC is a source of funding for these businesses in Lamoille County and those looking to move to Lamoille County.

LEDC created the Lamoille County Revolving Loan Fund for the purpose of helping to provide meaningful economic development to the residents of Lamoille County. To achieve this mission, the Lamoille County Revolving Loan Fund is intended to supplement existing or private sources of funding for small and medium sized businesses.

Vermont Business Magazine On October 2nd and 3rd business and community leaders, policymakers, researchers, and environmental organizations will come together in northern New England at Renewable Energy Vermont’s Annual Conference and Expo, REV2017. For almost two decades, REV has provided space for the innovation and dialogue that will help break down cost barriers to affordable, clean and renewable electricity, heating and transportation.

While utilities in Vermont have a statutory obligation to meet an annually increasing Renewable Portfolio Standard, providing customers with 55% percent renewable energy, some of the energy powering South Burlington is still sourced from fossil fuels. Last year, the Renewable Energy Vermont Conference and Expo brought together almost 500 attendees. The electricity and heating/cooling of the meeting space - 13,946 square feet for almost two days - produced upwards of 1,028.29 lbs of CO2e emissions.