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Vermont Business Magazine Union Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ - UNB) Wednesday announced results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and declared a regular quarterly cash dividend.

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Vermont Business Magazine Today, Treasurer Pieciak announced that David Scherr will join his office as Deputy Treasurer. The transition will be effective starting November 3, 2025. Scherr most recently served as the State Director for Congresswoman Becca Balint. 

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Vermont Business Magazine As winter approaches, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) wants to remind construction professionals and property owners about additional requirements to help protect the state’s waterways during the winter construction season. Wintertime rainfall, thaws, and snowmelt can produce significant flows over frozen and saturated ground.

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Vermont Business Magazine Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) today led 31 senators in calling on the Trump administration to immediately restore the Solar for All program —  a landmark initiative Sanders wrote to help working class families afford rooftop and community-based solar energy.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Land Use Review Board (LURB) will host four public engagement sessions across the state to get public input on draft Tier 3 area rules and mapping. All four meetings will be held from 6pm-8pm, starting October 21, and welcome both in-person and remote participation.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program and its Advisory Council are proud to announce the first-ever Vermont Arborist Day of Service, hosted in partnership with Vermont State Parks.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Agency of Education, in partnership with the Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets, recognized 12 supervisory unions (SU/SDs) that have achieved the highest rates of local purchasing through the 2025 round of the Local Foods Incentive Grant program.

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Vermont Business Magazine Students from Red Fox Community School participated in a hands-on environmental stewardship experience at Smokey House Center last Friday, planting persimmon trees as part of the Center's new Community U-Pick Orchard.

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Vermont Business Magazine As a reminder, furloughed Federal workers impacted by the recent government shutdown have up to two weeks from the start of the shutdown to file an unemployment claim.

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Vermont Business Magazine The J. Warren and Lois McClure Foundation and the Community College of Vermont (CCV) today announced an extension of the Free Degree Promise to include Vermont’s high school classes of 2027 and 2028.

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Vermont Business Magazine Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today warned that the Republican plan to eliminate subsidies for Affordable Care Act coverage will cause massive health insurance premium hikes for tens of thousands of Vermonters.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Treasurer’s Office will host a series of in-person information sessions for retired teachers transitioning from Vermont Blue Advantage (VBA) to an equivalent Medicare Advantage plan provided by HealthSpring. The meetings will ensure retirees have the information they need to continue receiving the benefits they have earned after a lifetime of