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Vermont Business Magazine After three consecutive years of multimillion-dollar operating deficits driven by rising health care costs and rising program costs, Howard Center today announced a strategic realignment of services to address ongoing financial challenges and protect its ability to deliver critical services across the region.

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Vermont Business Magazine National Life Group is thrilled to announce the Holly and Bob Miller Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund at the Vermont Community Foundation, will match every dollar that the National Life Group Do Good Fest® raises for the Vermont Foodbank, doubling up to $100,000.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Community College of Vermont (CCV) will offer a new project management certificate beginning in the fall 2025 semester. The new certificate is one of the College’s 27 certificate programs designed to provide a comprehensive offering of high-value credentials that prepare students for the workplace or further education.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Attorney General’s Office today announced that Coberlin Brownell, 54, of Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced in Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Criminal Division, after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count of Possession of Child Pornography (now known as child sexual abuse material).

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by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Health reported last week that the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations remain close to zero statewide, after a spike last winter. Overall COVID trends are declining in Vermont and across the US.

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Vermont Business Magazine University of Vermont Medical Center has graduated the first sponsored cohort of Registered Nurses (RNs) from its innovative internal Nursing Pathway Program.

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Vermont State Police A man shot by a Vermont State Police trooper Monday afternoon in Putney has died. The shooting occurred at about 4:30 p.m. at the Putney Landing Apartments at 23 Neumann Lane, where police had responded earlier in the day after receiving a complaint from an individual who was concerned about how a neighbor was acting.

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Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Vermont Speaker of the House, Representative Jill Krowinski, announced her appointments to the School District Redistricting Task Force which was created in H.454 (Act 73) of 2025.

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Vermont Business Magazine From July 2023 to July 2024, Vermont experienced multiple flooding events with enough damage to secure five federal disaster declarations. Collectively, these floods spanned every one of Vermont’s 14 counties and more than 150 cities, towns and villages, causing well over a billion dollars in damage.

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Vermont Business Magazine Cathedral Square has been awarded a grant for $125,000 from the Alzheimer’s Association Center for Dementia Respite Innovation (CDRI) to enhance the quality and availability of dementia-specific respite care for people living with dementia and their caregivers in Chittenden County.

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Vermont Business Magazine In response to Vermont’s growing mental health crisis and a critical shortage of trained professionals—especially in rural communities—the University of Vermont (UVM) has received a $1.2 million federal grant to expand and enhance its clinical psychology doctoral training program.

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Vermont Business Magazine Hospice and Palliative Care Program Director Annie Meredith-Mitchell, MSN, RN, CHPN of University of Vermont Health Network – Home, Health & Hospice attributes the organization’s recent 5 Star rating from Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to the expertise and compassion of the staff.  “This team truly loves what they do and are