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Vermont Business Magazine Delmolino & Sons, Inc. an out-of-state commercial waste hauler, is now required to pay a penalty of $8,375 after operating for a year in Vermont without a solid waste transporter permit.

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Vermont Business Magazine Proctor-based Carris Reels has announced the purchase of the Texas firm Lone Star Reel from Mike Pawlish and Larry Beal. Lone Star Reel is a manufacturer of plywood reels and nailed wood reels, serving wire and cable customers throughout the Southern United States for approximately 20 years.

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by Mike Smith We find ourselves in an interesting predicament as we consider candidates for president in the closing weeks of what has been anything but an ordinary campaign. The majority of Americans dislike and distrust the nominees of both major political parties.

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Public Assets Institute Unemployment rates in New England are mostly lower than in the US as a whole. But job growth in the region is mixed. This year through September, Vermont saw a 1.2 percent increase in private sector jobs—the same as the national average.

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Vermont Business Magazine A lone Canada lynx was photographed in the southern Vermont town of Londonderry this June, marking the first confirmed evidence of lynx in Vermont outside the Northeast Kingdom in decades.

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Monday, October 24
5:45 pm               Board of Finance meeting – Conference Room 12, City Hall
6:30 pm               Celebrate Burlington Awards Reception and 10th Anniversary of Parallel Justice – Church Street
7:00 pm               City Council meeting – Contois Auditorium, City Hall

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Monday, October 24

 

12:00 p.m. Present Governor’s Service Awards with SerVermont

Governor’s Ceremonial Office, State House, Montpelier

Tuesday, October 25 and Wednesday, October 26

No public appearances scheduled 

Thursday, October 27

Press Conference

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Vermont Business Magazine Ethan Allen Interiors Inc (NYSE:ETH) commented today, in advance of its Fall Investor Meeting, on its financial results for the fiscal 2017 first quarter, which ended on September 30, 2016. Results will be reported October 25 and investor meeting will be held on October 26.

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by CB Hall Vermont Business Magazine The litigation between the town of Shelburne and the Vermont Railway over the latter's transloading facility just north of Shelburne village continues, and the town may now have gained a new legal foothold by virtue of a federal judge's decision rendered on October 18.

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Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund Independent Expenditure - PAC (PPVTAF IE PAC) released their first television ad of the general election cycle.  Titled “Different Choices,” the ad lays out the case for why Sue Minter is the strongest pro-choice candidate for Vermonters.

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Vermont Public Radio Who leads the race for president and the key statewide offices in Vermont? What are the top issues on voters' minds and how much do they trust some of Vermont's institutions? VPR has once again partnered with The Castleton Polling Institute to ask Vermonters what they think about the big issues facing our state and the choices voters face on November 8.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Supreme Court has reversed a lower court and denied an Act 250 permit for a proposed large commercial and retail development at the I-89 Exit 1 interchange near Quechee. The Vermont Natural Resources Board, together with the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission, appealed the lower court’s ruling.