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Vermont Business Magazine Today in Montpelier, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth, Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Representative Barbara Rachelson, Burlington City Council Chair Ben Traverse, Laurel Papel of Students Demand Action, and Mary Sullivan of GunSense Vermont joined parents, students and gun safety advocates to call for the passage of S.131, a bill that

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Vermont State Police At about 1:36 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, VSP Williston received a report of a wrong-way driver on Interstate 89 in Williston.  Multiple reports confirmed a vehicle was traveling north in the southbound lane of travel.

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Vermont Business Magazine U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine FOX Weather meteorologists Ian Oliver and Bayne Froney will present episode two of season two of FOX Weather Ski House live from Sugarbush Resort in Sugarbush, Vermont on Wednesday, January 7th from 3-6 PM/ET.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Attorney General’s Office announced that Dakota Larock, 23, of Castleton, Vermont, was sentenced yesterday, January 6, 2026, in Vermont Superior Court, Rutland Criminal Division, after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor charge of Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. The Court, Judge Cortland T.

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Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation The Community and Housing Infrastructure Program (CHIP) is launching soon. With this in mind, the Vermont Economic Progress Council (VEPC) is asking that all municipalities considering applying for CHIP fill out this mandatory interest form to provide a high-level overview of their proposed projects.

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Department of Motor Vehicles On January 6, 2026, at approximately 3:18 p.m., Inspectors Lindor and Cotnoir responded to 1266 Perini Road in Newbury for a single-vehicle rollover involving a school bus with unknown injuries or hazards while students were on board.

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Vermont State Police Today, January 7, 2026, Troopers assigned to the Vermont State Police-Williston Barracks received numerous reports of vehicle break-ins/thefts in the Mt Philo area in the Town of Charlotte. The Vermont State Police would like to urge the public to ensure that their vehicles are locked and valuable items are removed to prevent thefts.

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by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Vermont Department of Labor released data on the Vermont economy for the time period covering November 2025. According to household data, the seasonally adjusted statewide unemployment rate for November was 2.6 percent. This reflects an increase of one-tenth of one percentage point from September’s revised estimate.

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Northeastern Vermont Development Association The NEK Collaborative hosted 152 regional, state, federal, nonprofit and business leaders at their 2025 NEK Together Conference. The gathering reaffirmed the organization's role as a neutral convener within the framework of the region's Rural Economic Area Partnership (REAP Zone) and USDA Rural Development.

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Vermont Business Magazine Funding is now available from the Vermont Women’s Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation for programs that address systemic barriers to economic wellbeing and recognize the disproportionate impact of these barriers on women and girls based on race, gender identity, sexuality, class, age, and ability.

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Vermont Business Magazine Polly, the Vermont-based leading embedded auto insurance platform for automotive retail, today released its Q3 2025 Quarterly Embedded Auto Insurance Report, revealing that dealerships integrating an insurance solution into their sales process continue to see higher F&I gross profitability than those who do not have one.