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Vermont Business Magazine The Sticky Brand and Vermont Green Football ClubSticky Brand, one of America's fastest-growing custom sticker companies, is proud to announce a season-long partnership with Vermont Green Football Club, the newest sports team in Vermont. This partnership was formed during the inaugural season, and Sticky Brand's ecological consciousness and social justice values align perfectly with Vermont Green FC's mission to create positive role models while bringing the highest level of soccer to Vermont. Vermont Green's mission is to create an equalizer sport that supports all backgrounds, and Sticky Brand is excited to be a part of this movement. This sponsorship adds to Sticky Brand's growing list of partnerships, including the Vermont Lake Monsters, VMBA, and POW.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Warden Service is actively investigating an illegally shot deer in the town of Pomfret. On April 26, game wardens responded to reports of an adult female deer (doe) shot out of season on Cloudland Road. The doe was found alive and was euthanized due to its injuries. A necropsy found that the doe had been pregnant with twin fawns. As the investigation continues the Vermont Warden Service is asking the public for any information on this incident.

Vermont Business Magazine Suburban Propane Partners, LP (NYSE: SPH), a nationwide distributor of propane, renewable propane, fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity and investor in low carbon fuel alternatives, is celebrating Earth Month 2023 with a series of nationwide initiatives cleaning up open spaces, beachfronts, parks and more. On Wednesday, April 26th, volunteers from Suburban Propane’s customer service center (CSC) in St Albans City joined representatives from the Franklin County Industrial Development Corporation (FDIC) to help clean up the industrial park near the CSC at 62 Industrial Park Road, in honor of Earth Month.

Vermont Business Magazine Today the Vermont Senate gave preliminary approval to H.230, the gun violence prevention bill, on a vote of 21-9. This bill seeks to reduce gun violence and prevent deaths by suicide by instituting a negligent storage provision, expanding eligible petitioners for Extreme Risk Protection Orders to family or household members and creating a 72-hour waiting period for firearm transfers. Data show that unsecured guns pose safety risks - in particular to youth - and that waiting periods are associated with reduced rates of both homicide and suicide by firearm.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Friday joined the Scoopers of Ben & Jerry’s Burlington Scoop Shop as they announced that they are organizing a union and that Ben & Jerry’s has agreed to sign the Fair Election Principles, a code of corporate conduct for union elections to ensure that every worker can exercise their right to join a union without intimidation or harassment.

Vermont Business Magazine S.5, as amended by the House, was passed by the Senate on Thursday. S.5, An act relating to affordably meeting the mandated greenhouse gas reductions for the thermal sector through efficiency, weatherization measures, electrification, and decarbonization, is known as the "Affordable Heat Act." Governor Phil Scott today issued the following statement today: “From the start of this conversation, I have clearly, and repeatedly, said I agree we need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, including in the thermal sector. However, I strongly believe the right approach is to help people make the transition, not financially punish those who cannot afford to do so... For these reasons and more, I will veto S.5"

Vermont Department of Labor Every day in the United States approximately 14 people lose their lives to work related injuries. On April 28th, 2023, Workers Memorial Day, the Vermont Department of Labor remembers and honors the family members, friends, and coworkers who are behind these somber statistics. The Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration (VOSHA) investigates several such fatalities each year. These deaths, as well as other incidents resulting in serious injury, are sober reminders of the need to focus on the safety and health of everyone who goes to work each day.

Vermont Business Magazine Jay Peak will operate its aerial Tram to round out the last weekend of daily lift operations before reopening for the weekend of May 6-7 for two final days of skiing and riding on the Jet Triple Chair. While early May lift operations at Jay Peak is a long-standing tradition, the resort attributes this late-season push to favorable snowmaking temperatures early in the season and a natural snowfall total to-date of 355 inches; just 4 inches shy of its season average. On Saturday, May 6th, the resort will also host its Green Up Day celebration, and considering terrain and resort services, outside of lodging and lifts, will be limited, encourages visitors to contribute to statewide efforts to freshen up Vermont’s roadsides for the summer season. Local noodle experts Miso Hungry will graciously offer complimentary onigiri rice balls for participants who turn in a bag of collected litter. They will also give green-uppers each a voucher for free Miso at a later visit to its repurposed Tram cabin Noodle Shop.

Vermont Business Magazine Champlain College will celebrate its on-campus undergraduate and Champlain College Online undergraduate and graduate students during its commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 13. Honorary doctorates will be awarded to commencement speakers Dr. Aminata Touré, Senegalese politician and human rights activist, and JJ Green, national security correspondent. Ceremonies will kick off at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction at 10:00 AM for on-campus undergraduate students and 3 pm for students receiving undergraduate and master’s degrees through Champlain College Online. President Alex Hernandez is expected to confer 334 bachelor’s degrees during the on-campus undergraduate ceremony and 133 master’s degrees, 126 bachelor’s degrees, and 19 associate degrees during the afternoon ceremony for Champlain College Online graduates.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont), and Representative Becca Balint (D-Vermont) today issued the following delegation statement in commemoration of Abenaki Recognition and Heritage Week which begins Monday, May 1: “It is with great honor and respect that we come together to celebrate Abenaki Recognition and Heritage Week, the centuries-old culture and rich heritage of the Abenaki people, and the descendants of the Western Abenaki Tribes that originally inhabited the land we now call Vermont. We owe the Abenaki people of Vermont, and Indigenous tribes across this country, an enormous debt, one that can never fully be repaid." Governor Scott’s Proclamation 23-054 names May 1-7, 2023, as Abenaki Recognition and Heritage Week.