News

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine Rootstock Publishing announces the January 6, 2026, release of The Pacifist, a historical thriller about standing up to power gone bad, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lyn Bixby of Northern Vermont.

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine RunVermont has announced that the M&T Bank Vermont City Marathon has been selected as the 2026 Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) Eastern Region Marathon Championship. The goal of the RRCA Championship Event Series is to celebrate and shine a spotlight on well-run, community-focused events and to award their top performing runners.

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this week spoke on the Senate floor and urged the Trump Administration to release $4 billion in federal funds for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) that has yet to be distributed this year.

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine On Monday, November 17, 2025, the Burlington City Council voted unanimously to approve an amendment to the City Charter to permanently establish an Office of Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (REIB).

Submitted on by tim

by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Vermont weekly unemployment claims for the week ending November 15, 2025, increased by a small amount, as claims have more than doubled over the last two months. New claims were 418, up 5 claims from the week before and up 96 from last year at this time. Claims were 186 in late September.

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine The Board of Directors at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) announced Thursday that President and CEO Christopher J. Dougherty, who has been on a leave of absence since Friday, October 3rd, will not be returning to his position at BMH.

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today submitted a formal appeal of the denial of Vermont’s request for a federal disaster declaration following the July 10, 2025, storm. A declaration would help communities in Caledonia and Essex counties recover costs for repairing public infrastructure damage caused by rainfall and severe flooding on July 10, 2025.

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine BETA Technologies, Inc (NYSE: BETA) is accelerating the development of autonomous capabilities to enable BETA aircraft to fly faster, further, and carry more to serve an increased scope of critical defense and commercial applications.

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine Fluency, the Digital Advertising Operating System (DAOS) for scaling paid media operations across all major channels, has announced it ranked No. 237 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech and energy tech companies in North America.

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today published two op-eds in the Boston Globe and Fox News outlining common-sense health care policies to make care more affordable and accessible for every American.

Submitted on by tim

The Vermont Department of Labor has released an easy-to-use tool to help find local Registered Apprenticeship programs! This searchable, sortable table is ideal for filtering the programs by town, county, occupation, or even employer, and will be updated quarterly. There are over 600 programs on the list across nearly 550 employers!

Submitted on by tim

Vermont Business Magazine The Attorney General’s Office announced Thursday that Jude Stone, 20, of Bakersfield, Vermont, was arraigned on one felony count and two misdemeanor counts of possession of Child Sexual Abuse Materials, and two felony counts of promoting a recording of child sexual conduct.