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Vermont Business Magazine Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center has been named one of America’s “Most Wired” hospitals by the American Hospital Association (AHA) in recognition of its successful adoption of information technology (IT) to enhance clinical performance. The 18th annual Most Wired list appears in the July 2016 issue of Hospitals & Health Networks ma

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Vermont Business Magazine Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) and Community College of Vermont (CCV) are joining forces in response to challenges in filling positions within the local healthcare workforce by launching an accelerated program to prepare qualified candidates for jobs as Certified Medical Assistants.

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Vermont Business Magazine - The Hands-On Educational System gets children excited about learning. The Homespun Group, LLC today announced the release of the Hands-On Educational System.  Homespun and Hands-On offers a wide variety of hands-on projects, hands-on games, supplemental materials, and miscellaneous goods.

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Vermont Business Magazine Lake Sunapee Bank Group (NASDAQ: LSBG) has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of fourteen cents ($0.14) per common share payable July 29, 2016, to stockholders of record as of July 22, 2016.

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by Bruce Lisman There they go again. The Democratic candidates for Governor are promising to resuscitate the discredited idea of single payer. After four excruciating years of dancing around the issue of cost, Peter Shumlin finally abandoned single payer when he was forced to admit that Vermont couldn’t afford it.

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Vermont Business Magazine Sue Minter for Vermont has announced support from 38 Vermont environmentalists from across the state. These endorsements follow the release of two comprehensive environmental policy proposals relating to energy, climate change and clean water.

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Vermont Business Magazine An initiative of the Rutland Redevelopment Authority (RRA) and the City of Rutland took a big step forward recently with the City and a local private developer agreeing to a lease option, which could lead to the eventual development of a first class hotel / conference center and pedestrian mall, along the Evelyn Street corridor.

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Vermont Business Magazine William and Robin Hanfield, who own and operate a dairy farm in Brandon, Vermont, have been ordered to take corrective actions at the farm’s manure pit and pay $24,750 for violations of Vermont’s water pollution laws and agricultural practice regulations. “Vermonters want our rivers, streams and lakes to be clean,” said Attorney General William H.

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Vermont Business Magazine Mascoma Savings Bank, with branches in Vermont and New Hampshire, has announced that Clay Adams will succeed current President and CEO Stephen F Christy upon Christy’s previously announced year-end retirement following nearly 27 years in the leadership role. Adams has been the CEO at Simon Pearce in Quechee since 2012.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Community Foundation, in partnership with some of its fundholders, awarded a total of $54,473 in Small and Inspiring grants to 29 organizations for local projects in communities across the state during the first half of 2016.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont has been recognized as one of only four states to make significant progress in confronting the challenge of opioid addiction.

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Vermont Business Magazine - The Paramount Theatre and Castleton University announce the second half of Project 240 which is set to begin July 21, with live broadcasts of the final nights of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.