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Vermont Business Magazine Vermonters can keep their New Year’s resolutions to save energy with 2026 rebates and financial support from Efficiency Vermont and partners across the state—including weatherization incentives while funding lasts. Heat pump heating system rebates are available through a joint program offered by Efficiency Vermont and your electric utility.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Economic Conference returns on Tuesday, January 27, with a compelling, speaker-driven agenda designed to help business and policy leaders understand the forces shaping Vermont’s economy and what comes next.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Public Service announced Thursday that on December 23, 2025, Consolidated Communications of Vermont Company (CCVT), LLC, which does business as Fidium, filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

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Vermont Business Magazine The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Wednesday announced that it has initiated investigations into 18 educational entities in 10 states based on complaints submitted to OCR alleging that they have violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX).

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Vermont Business Magazine MENTOR Vermont, in partnership with youth mentoring programs, youth mentees, volunteer mentors, legislators, and business supporters, encourages all Vermonters to join us in celebrating National Mentoring Month this January, and the theme of Belonging, and to consider becoming a mentor in your community this year.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC), the region’s transportation and land use planning and policy organization, is seeking public input on planning ideas and projects for its annual work program beginning on July 1, 2026, and ending on June 30, 2027.

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Vermont Business Magazine Let’s Build Homes (LBH), a statewide coalition of nearly 900 Vermonters and 270 organizations, today unveiled its 2026 legislative agenda aimed at addressing Vermont’s crippling housing shortage and accelerating the production of 30,000 new homes by 2030 - the figure that the state’s own Housing Needs Assessment says we need.

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Vermont Business Magazine As the new year begins, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is offering a few tips on what not to flush down toilets and sinks, and how to better dispose of that waste. For toilets, only flush human waste, toilet paper, and cleaning products in moderation.

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by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont are $2.99 per gallon, down 3 cents per gallon, down 10 cents/g from last month and down 11 cents/g from a year ago, according to AAA. The lowest price in the state this week was $2.65/g while the highest was $3.29/g, a difference of 64.0 cents per gallon.

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Vermont State Police Through continued investigation, the Vermont State Police identified two suspects in the Dec. 3, 2025, home-invasion armed robbery in Highgate. The suspects were identified as 41-year-old Eric Smith and his 31-year-old girlfriend, Sabrena Murray, both of Swanton. At about 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.

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Vermont Business Magazine The adorable Southern bog lemming, delicate small whorled pogonia orchid, mysterious lake sturgeon and humble wood turtle may not seem to have much in common. But all four are classified as “Species of Greatest Conservation Need” (SGCN) in a newly drafted update to Vermont’s Wildlife Action Plan, which is now available for public comment.