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Castleton State College has announced that former Vermont State Colleges chancellor Tim Donovan will give the address at the college’s 2015 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 9 at 11 am in the Castleton Pavilion. Donovan recently retired from a career in higher education that spanned four decades, culminating in five years as the Chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges.
Marking Earth Day, Governor Peter Shumlin announced the expansion of the Heat Saver Loan program. He said it will help Vermonters increase the efficiency of their homes and save money on their energy bills while creating jobs and reducing greenhouse emissions.
Mortgage data from February indicate that Vermont, like the rest of the nation, continues to see a drop in home foreclosures and delinquent mortgage loans. Vermont fell to 6.9 percent of all mortgages (third lowest in the East among states) while the national rate also fell to 6.9 percent. Vermont's "bad mortgage" rate has fallen 15.4 percent from a year ago.
by Governor Peter Shumlin The millions of Americans who gathered in communities across the nation for the first Earth Day in 1970 succeeded in making progress on the major environmental challenges of that time.
by Public Assets Institute More than 1,200 Vermonters left the unemployment lines so far this year, but they didn’t all go back to work. In the first three months of 2015, employment — including self-employment — rose by 687, to 335,006. Meanwhile, the labor force — people working or seeking work—shrank by 577.
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc (NASDAQ: NHTB), the holding company for Lake Sunapee Bank, fsb, today announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015.
by Maureen Cregan Connolly, Home Builders and Remodelers Association The Small Business Administration (SBA) regulations indicate that 96.3% of businesses in Vermont are classified as small businesses. According to the SBA more than 75% of Vermont businesses have no employees, and the majority of the remaining employers have fewer than 20 employees.
In order to help people with criminal convictions find employment and build successful lives, Governor Peter Shumlin today signed an Executive Order to implement a ‘ban the box’ state hiring policy and highlighted progress of a bill to expand Vermont’s expungement law.
The Princeton Review has released its sixth annual guide to the most environmentally responsible colleges — a listing of the schools with "the most exceptional commitments to sustainability based on their academic offerings and career preparation for students, campus policies, initiatives, and activities." The University of Vermont is ranked 10th.
Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty has released its "Northwest Vermont Market Report: Spring 2015." Overall, despite the tough winter weather, sales of residential properties rose in Chittenden, Franklin, and Addison County.
The Vermont Department of Labor announced today that the seasonally-adjusted statewide unemployment rate for March was 3.8 percent. This represents a decrease of one-tenth of a percent from the revised February rate (3.9 percent). The national average in March was 5.5 percent, which experienced no change from the previous month’s estimate.