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Vermont Business Magazine FirstLight, a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider operating in the Northeast, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Finger Lakes Technologies Group. FirstLight acquired Bellows Falls-based Sovernet last March.

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Vermont Business Magazine ALARA is putting out a call for proposals to contribute to the global body of experiential learning knowledge that brings about meaningful change through new understandings and building of communities of practice through action learning and action research (AL/AR).

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s congressional delegation announced Tuesday that the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) will receive a $480,000 federal grant from the US Department of Transportation to purchase two electric buses that will be used by Green Mountain Transit in Burlington.

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Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General TJ Donovan announced today that a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general from across the country have expanded their demands for information and documents from both the manufacturers and the distributors of prescription opioid drugs.

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Vermont Business MagazineAmerican Lung Association in Vermont turned out over 80 participants, including 20 firefighters for the 9th annual

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Vermont Business MagazineMtAscutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) will hold their 25thAnniversary Rehabilitation Reunion on Tuesday, September 19 from2-4 PMat the Acute Rehabilitation Center at the Hospital, located at 289 County Road in Windsor.

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Vermont Business Magazine Wake Robin, Vermont’s first Life Plan Community, held a groundbreaking September 15 in Shelburne for the Maple Expansion Project, which includes construction of a new apartment building, an expanded community center, and expansion and updates to the Linden Health Center. Construction is underway on the 122,000 square foot project.

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Vermont Business Magazine In August, King Arthur Flour celebrateda milestone achievement in the launch of its line of Essential Goodness baking mixes: the donation of more than one million meals to Feeding America with its Buy a Mix, Give a Meal program.

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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain United Way celebrates the community and the spirit of Giving with their Annual Kickoff Breakfast and Volunteer Day onThursday, September 21in downtown Barre.

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by Rob RoperThere is a vote fraud case in Vermont, currently in the Essex Superior Court, in which a family of second homeowners from Connecticut (parents and two adult children) registered to vote in the town of Victory, and did so. Their votes likely altered the outcome of a local election, which was decided by fewer than four votes.

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Vermont Business Magazine Aspenti Health, an innovative, comprehensive clinical drug testing lab, will be hosting a Patient Appreciation Day at their Burlington Patient Service Center onSeptember 25 in celebration of National Recovery Month.

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Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims fell marginally last week but remain at a low level. Claims had been falling steadily since early July. Claims also are lower than they were the same time last year, which has been the case for most weeks in 2017.