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Vermont Business Magazine Champlain College conferred 598 degrees to undergraduate and graduate students, representing both the College’s on-campus and online communities during its 148th commencement ceremony on May 9.

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Vermont Business Magazine The annual New England Society for Healthcare Communications (NESHCo) conference will be held at the end of the month (May 27-29) in Burlington, marking the first time it has been held in Vermont. Healthcare communications, marketing and strategy professionals from across New England will attend.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott announced action on the following bills, passed by the General Assembly. He signed four bills into law, but vetoed H.674, An act relating to the creation of the Vermont Sister State Program.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today signed Executive Order 01-26 establishing the Vermont Artificial Intelligence Economic Task Force, positioning the state to use its scale, institutional networks, and tradition of fast coordination to adapt to AI more quickly and deliberately.

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Vermont Business Magazine As President Trump and congressional Republicans tout so-called “No Tax on Overtime” while simultaneously denying the right to overtime pay for more than 4.3 million workers, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and Rep.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Transportation’s State Highway Safety Office joins the U.S.

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Vermont Agency of Transportation On May 6, 2026, at approximately 5:33 p.m., Inspector Johnson responded to a two-vehicle crash involving a commercial motor vehicle on I-91 North in Lyndon.

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VermontBiz is proud to announce the 2026 Best of Business Awards (BOB Awards) winners. This awards program celebrates the best Vermont companies in more than 100 business-to-business categories. Winners were celebrated May 13 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Burlington. VermontBiz readers chose the winners!

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by Maggie Lenz and Gwynn Zakov Last week, we told you about the tie vote in the Senate Education Committee that temporarily stalled H.955, the major education transformation bill moving through the Legislature this session. Senate Education is the only Senate committee with an even number of members and an even partisan split.

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Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont are $4.54 per gallon, up 2.7 cents per gallon from last week's $4.52/g. The lowest price in the state yesterday was $4.25/g while the highest was $4.69/g, a difference of 44.0 cents per gallon. The national average price of gasoline has fallen 1 cent per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.47/g today. 

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Vermont Business Magazine The sun shone down on nearly 3,700 members of the University of Vermont’s Class of 2026 and thousands of their family and friends as UVM celebrated its 225th Commencement Ceremony on the historic University Green in Burlington on Saturday, May 16.

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Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets For the past three and a half years, Vermont Cattlemen has partnered with a group of dairy farms raising beef x dairy crossbred terminal beef animals to evaluate the economic potential of building a Northeast‑based beef supply chain.