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Vermont Business Magazine A total of 135 regular firearms moose season permits and 25 archery moose season permits would be issued for Vermont's 2016 October moose hunt under a proposed regulation approved by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board at their February 24 monthly meeting in Montpelier. The 160 permits proposed by the department represent a 40 percent decrease from the

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Vermont Business Magazine Susan L Donegan, commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation announced today that Continental Indemnity Co., a subsidiary of Applied Underwriters Inc., has paid Vermont $335,000 and owes 16 Vermont businesses an additional $352,000.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont House Speaker Shap Smith today praised the passage of a resolution that urges the State’s pension managers to remove from their portfolio risky ExxonMobil and coal investments that could pose a threat to the state’s investment returns.

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Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims increased by more than 300 claims last week. Claims in 2015 generally were lower than in 2014, but since the holiday season they have been generally running slightly ahead of the prior year, but were slightly lower last week year-to-year.

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Vermont Business Magazine Standard & Poor’s (S&P’s) Rating Services has raised Vermont Electric Cooperative’s (VEC’s) credit rating from an A to an A+ with a stable outlook.

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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power has announce year-end operational results for Kingdom Community Wind (KCW) in Lowell. In 2015, the 21-turbine project generated enough electricity to power 26,700 homes for a year. That’s an increase of 7 percent over the previous year or enough energy to power an additional 1,800 homes.

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Vermont Business Magazine Keurig Green Mountain, Inc (NASDAQ: GMCR) today announced the receipt on February 25, 2016 of regulatory clearance under the Competition Act (Canada) in connection with the previously announced merger between Keurig and a JAB Holding Company-led investor group.

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Vermont Business Magazine The town of Bennington released the following information Thursday evening. In a recent press release by Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, he indicating that the chemical known as PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic) was found in some isolated locations in North Bennington and Bennington, Vermont.

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Vermont Business Magazine Ledyard Financial Group, Inc. (Ticker Symbol LFGP), the holding company for Ledyard National Bank with branches in New Hampshire and Vermont, today reported record earnings for 2015 of $4,061,338, a 2 percent improvement over 2014.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Senate gave final approval to a bill Thursday (17-12, see roll call below) that would end marijuana prohibition in the state and regulate the cultivation and sale of marijuana for adult use.

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Vermont Business Magazne The University of Vermont Health Network announced today six Board of Trustees appointments at member hospitals.

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Vermont Businiess Magazine Test results received this morning indicate that a number of water sources in North Bennington show varying levels of a potentially harmful chemical. The public water supply has been tested and is not affected.