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Vermont Business Magazine Teamsters Local 597 bus drivers and monitors voted unanimously to ratify a new five-year agreement at Travel Kuz, a subsidiary of Beacon Mobility. The new contract delivers increased wages, stronger retirement and health care benefits, and key picket line protection language.

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Vermont Business Magazine Champlain College today announced a strategic partnership with Temple University that will broaden study abroad opportunities for Champlain students beginning Summer 2026. Through Temple’s global network, students will have access to semester-long programs in Japan, Italy, and Spain, as well as faculty-led summer programs around the world.

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Vermont Business Magazine With a ribbon cutting, speeches, and tours of its extensive laboratory space, the formal opening of the BioLabs Innovation Center at UVM was celebrated on Tuesday, September 23.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Attorney General’s Office today announced that Laura Brewer, 42, of Charlotte, Vermont, was arraigned on one count of felony embezzlement. The charge against Brewer was the result of an investigation conducted by the Vermont State Police, New Haven Barracks. The charge relates to Ms.

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Vermont Business Magazine U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) joined U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and six of his Senate colleagues in calling on the President to recognize a Palestinian State. The resolution—the first of its kind in the United States Senate—calls for U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine Nedde Real Estate in Burlington is reporting recent transactions. These include at Milton Commons, City Center Montpelier, Pine Street, Burlington, Hercules Dr., Colchester, and 10 Merchants Row, Middlebury, among several locations.

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Vermont Business Magazine Kinney Drugs today introduced Ask Burt, a virtual assistant that helps individuals determine which vaccines they may be eligible to receive this year. Ask Burt is named after their founder, pharmacist Burt Orrin Kinney, who established the first Kinney Drugs in 1903 in Gouverneur, NY.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Osher Center for Integrative Health at University of Vermont (UVM) has announced that Dr. Helene M. Langevin, MD, a national leader in integrative health, will join its team in early 2026, to shape the Center’s mission-driven research efforts.

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Vermont Business Magazine Community Health in Rutland has been recognized for its leadership in heart health initiatives by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Heart disease affects 42,000 Vermonters each year and is a leading cause of death in Vermont and overall in the U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery (VAMHAR) today announced the launch of the Recovery Friendly Workplace (RFW) Initiative, a statewide effort to help employers strengthen their workforce, reduce stigma, and support employees affected by substance use and mental health challenges.

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Vermont Business Magazine Patients in Vermont and northern New York will have access to vital local support before and after kidney transplant surgery through a new regional partnership between University of Vermont Health Network and Dartmouth Health.

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Vermont Business Magazine Healthcare Association of New York State President and CEO Bea Grause, RN, JD, today announced her plans to retire in the summer of 2026, after a more than 45-year-long healthcare career. Grause joined HANYS as president and CEO in 2016.