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The INTERNATIONAL SAILING SCHOOL & CLUB has commissioned it's 25th season of excellence in sail education. Located at 511 West Lakeshore Drive in Colchester, Vermont; thousands have discovered the sport of sailing with our 2 & 5 day instructional programs. Lake Champlain is a sailor's paradise nestled between the Adirondacks & Green Mountains; Vermont's best kept secret!!

Third Generation of Family Ownership Assumes Reins Waitsfield, VT A new generation takes the reins at Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom this week with the promotion of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Gregg Haskin to the position of President & Chief Executive Officer. After 50 years of managing the family owned company, Dana and Eleanor Haskin will step down from daily operations, but will remain active on the Board of Directors.

April 28, 2005
Vermont Tech President to Step Down
RANDOLPH CENTER, Vt.Vermont Technical College President Allan Rodgers announced today his intentions to leave the college within the next year. In an all-campus meeting at noon today, Rodgers told the group that after five years leading the college it is time for new leadership to continue ongoing work to make the institution even more responsive to future state and student educational needs.
My commitment to the VSC was for five years, Rodgers noted, and this will be my fifth graduation in May. For my career and personal development, Ive tried to keep fresh and have sought to change my job every five years or so. Rodgers expressed his appreciation to the Board of Trustees, Chancellor, faculty and staff for their support. Everyone has been wonderful, even through the most challenging of times.

26th office opens in Brattleboro
BRATTLEBORO, VT (April 28, 2005) Robert Ross & David Brown, co-owners of Stepping Stone Real Estate, located at 218 Main Street in Brattleboro are pleased to announce an alliance with ERA The Masiello Group, of Keene, New Hampshire. The Masiello Group, with 26 member offices in Maine, New Hampshire and now Vermont, is the largest real estate company in Northern New England.

Winooski Vermont Naturopathic Clinic announces the opening of its new office at 321 Main St., Suite C in Winooski. Naturopathic medicine is founded on a holistic philosophy, combining safe and effective traditional therapies with the most current advances in modern medicine.

Jeffords' Statement Announcing Decision Not to Seek Reelection
in 2006
Statement of Senator Jim Jeffords
April 20, 2005
For almost 40 years, the voters of Vermont have honored me with their support and their trust. I have tried my best to be worthy of that honor, whether serving in Montpelier or Washington, D.C.
I have had an enormously satisfying career, one that I would not have traded for any other. In no other job do you have both the freedom and obligation to solve problems and help people on a daily basis.
But it is time to begin a new chapter, both for me personally and for the people of Vermont. After much thought and consultation with my family and staff, I have decided to close this chapter of my service to Vermont, and not seek re-election in 2006.
Between now and the end of my term, I will be working overtime to accomplish as much as I can for Vermont, in education, the environment,

Hartlwrites Helps Businesses Communicate Effectively with Customers and Employees
Fairfax, VT -- Kathy Hartl has started Hartlwrites to help Vermont businesses communicate more effectively to their customers and employees. Kathy helps her clients identify and clarify the unique benefits they offer. Then, she develops written materials to communicate those benefits to customers and employees.
Kathy develops brochures, business letters, CD scripts, corporate image pieces, direct mail, internal and external newsletters, press releases, proposals, video scripts, web content and white papers. Kathy draws on over 10 years of corporate, technical and academic writing to help her clients identify and communicate their unique value. Call 802.849.9824 or email [email protected] for more information. www.hartlwrites.com

VERMONT ADVERTISING AGENCY SWITCHES ON THE POWER
HMC Changes Ownership and Management
Stowe, VT --
HMC Advertising in Stowe is bringing a whole new power source to marketing in New England. Literally. HMC, which has been in existence since 1980, was sold this year to its employees - positioning it for new management, new growth, new opportunities, new ideas and a renewed zeal and commitment to serving clients.

Brian Harwood, now the "Chair Emeritus" of the agency, stepped down from his CEO role in January along with his long-time business partner Brad Moses. The two then passed the management baton to employees Veronica Williams and Anne Loecher.

DEPUTY COMMISSIONER APPOINTED FOR DEPARTMENT
Murray Named to Replace Richard Smith
MONTPELIER -- The Department of Economic Development named Thomas Murray as Deputy Commissioner. The announcement was made by Commissioner Mike Quinn.

Murray replaces Richard Smith who accepted the appointment as Deputy Commissioner with the Vermont Department of Public Service.
Murray began service in state government directing telecommunications policy development in the Agency of Commerce and Community Development. He will continue those responsibilities as he assumes his new duties as deputy commissioner of the department.

National Life Group Names Mehran Assadi
President of Life and Annuities
Montpelier, VT The National Life Group has named Mehran Assadi President of Life and Annuities. Assadi, who has been with the company in an interim role for the past two years, will have responsibility for leading and directing all of the National Life Groups life and annuity operations, including product development, marketing, sales and distribution, as well as customer service.
Mehran is a leader who has earned enormous credibility and respect throughout our organization, said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tom MacLeay, in making the announcement. As president of life and annuities for the National Life Group, we know that respect and credibility will only continue to expand and grow.

Champlain College announced today that retiring president Dr. Roger H. Perry will deliver the commencement address to graduates of the career-oriented college on Saturday, May 7. The Class of 2005 will hear from this educator and administrator with national and international experience who steered the private institution through a host of changes, leaving it well-positioned for the future.
Dr. Perry became the sixth president of the College in 1992. During the prior ten years, he served as Champlains vice president for academic affairs and then provost. After retiring from the College, Perry and his wife, Heather, plan to travel and then teach abroad.
Dr. David F. Finney of New York University has been selected by Champlain Colleges Board of Trustees to become the colleges seventh president. He will succeed Perry on July 1, 2005.

BURLINGTON, Vt.--Hal Colston, the founder and former director of the Good News Garage, is an adjunct professor at Champlain College, where he teaches community service courses. But now through a new, multifaceted project with the College, he has also become a client of several student and faculty teams who are helping him get his next big idea off the ground.
Champlain students are doing marketing research, surveys, feasibility studies, Web development, electronic game development and video work for Colstons NeighborKeepers project. Colstons goal is to create a nonprofit organization that provides a circle of support to impoverished single mothers and their families. One of the goals, said Colston, is to show these families how to live in the middle class, when all theyve known is poverty.