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Vermont Business Magazine The Attorney General’s Office announced that Michael Holden, 36, formerly of Lyndonville and currently living in Newport, Vermont, was sentenced yesterday in Vermont Superior Court, Bennington Criminal Division, after pleading guilty to two felony counts of Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Materials - Second Offense.

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VT LEAP The Vermont Housing Conservation Board is offering enrollment into the Viability Program for Specialized Business Support. If you are a farm or forest business seeking an advisor for the short- or long-term plan, this program is for you. This applies to all consulting foresters, farms of all sizes, loggers, maple producers, sawmills, and craftspeople!

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Vermont Business Magazine New adult hunters and families looking for mentorship and a community to learn with are invited to the department’s annual "Learn to Hunt" series. There will be two free weekend workshops, one on deer hunting, and one on waterfowl hunting.

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by Camryn Woods, Community News Service Vermont’s single landfill in Coventry receives hundreds of thousands of pounds of waste every year. Most of that amount is municipal waste — regular household and business trash like a Snicker’s wrapper or an old rocking chair.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Transportation’s State Highway Safety Office joins law enforcement agencies across the state and nation in urging drivers to Drive Sober. From August 15 through September 1, the U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy, today announced he would introduce the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act. The legislation — unveiled ahead of the 90th anniversary of President Franklin D.

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Vermont Business Magazine Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT-AL) and Rep.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Community Health Centers (CHC) and the members of Community Health United (CHU), AFT Vermont jointly announce that they have ratified a new union contract. This new agreement builds upon the existing contract with licensed and unlicensed staff.

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Vermont Business Magazine Earlier this week, Campaign for Vermont Prosperity (CFV) sent a letter to the Act 73 Task Force, identifying some of the pitfalls of Act 46 (the previous consolidation effort) and offering research-backed suggestions on how to avoid making the similar mistakes. Since 2010 Vermont has consolidated from 271 school districts down to the current 119.

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by Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas As the Chief Elections Officer of the State of Vermont, I am proud of the work my office does to keep Vermont elections free, fair, accessible, and accurate. Vermonters may have heard of recent outreach from the federal government to states asking for voter information, including state voter lists.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA), the largest captive insurance trade association in the world, has appointed Ian Davis as its next president following a national search. Davis was appointed at the VCIA annual conference in Burlington. He succeeds Kevin Mead.