News
by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Health reported last week that the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations fell to a near record-low number of cases statewide since the beginning of the pandemic over five years ago. Overall COVID trends are declining in Vermont and across the US.
Vermont Business Magazine The Ministère de l'Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs is informing the population of Estrie and Montérégie that it will carry out a vaccine bait distribution operation from August 6 to September 20, 2025. This vaccination operation aims to continue efforts to immunize raccoons, skunks and foxes.
Vermont Business Magazine When University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) began a years-long planning process focused on adding more certified nurse midwives to its OB/GYN practice, the goal was clear: respond to the community’s call for more access to midwifery care by building a sustainable, collaborative model for reproductive health.
Vermont Business Magazine The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is issuing an air quality alert for Vermont for Tuesday, August 5. Wildfire smoke from Canada is expected to elevate concentrations of fine particles to “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” (code orange) on the Air Quality Index across Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine It is with great excitement that VermontBiz Magazine celebrates the remarkable achievements of all the individuals chosen as the inaugural 91 Influencers here in Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Vermont Business Magazine The Attorney General’s Office today announced that Robert Bivens, 56, of Montpelier, Vermont, was sentenced in Vermont Superior Court, Washington Criminal Division, after pleading guilty to one felony count of Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas visited a variety of small businesses in the Northeast Kingdom on Wednesday as part of a statewide listening tour following the upgrade of her office’s online business filing system.
by Mike Del Trecco, CEO, VAHHS This week, Vermont’s hospitals are in the spotlight as the Green Mountain Care Board begins its annual hospital budget hearings. And it may not be an overstatement to say that the stakes have never been higher. Health care costs are under scrutiny from every angle, and Vermonters are feeling the pressure.
Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont is$3.09 per gallon, up 2.1 cents per gallon from last week's $3.07/g. The lowest price in the state yesterday was $2.89/g while the highest was $3.39/g, a difference of 50.0 cents per gallon. The national average price of gasoline has risen 1.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.11/g today.
Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets The Healthy Food Financing Initiative Food Access and Retail Expansion (FARE) Fund is now accepting funding inquiry forms for food retail and supply chain projects that increase access to healthy, affordable food in underserved areas.
by Kristen Munson, UVM Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest. Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided contracting beech bark disease—a fatal fungal pathogen that has proven deadly to mature beech trees.