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Vermont Business MagazineECFiber released its 2018 construction plans today, identifying Braintree, Brookfield, Granville, Hancock, Rochester, and Stockbridge as the six towns whose homes and businesses will get access to a fiber-optic based internet connection in 2018.
Vermont Business MagazineSeeking to expand the applications of computational, social and data science, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) announced today that it is providing the University of Vermont (UVM) $500,000 to fund an innovative pilot program within the university’s Vermont Complex Systems Center.
Vermont Business Magazine Joined by Governor Phil Scott, the Rutland Young Professionals announced the 3rd Annual Young Professionals Summit of Vermont today. The Summit will be held in downtown Rutland at the Paramount Theater on Saturday, September 9th and will welcome young professionals from across the state.
Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims fell again last week to a low summer-time level. Claims had been running higher than usual earlier in the summer, but have fallen steadily during July. Claims also are lower than they were the same time last year, which had been the usual case for most weeks in 2017.
byBill SchubartI’m losing my war against field mice. This time they chewed through the power cord to the freezer. So, with the freezer thawing, it’s time for a family cookout.I’m pulling chunks of hoarfrost-covered packages out and sorting them on the garage floor. The 3, 4, 5-year old labels are illegible. Let’s see, this looks like liver – but lamb, venison, beef, or pork?
Vermont Business MagazineThe Department of Public Service today announced $547,500 in grant awards tointernet service providers to boost broadband internet speeds in seven rural Vermont communities. The Department awarded $72,500 to ECFiber to bring fiber optic cable service to 31 homes and businesses in the towns of Randolph, Royalton and Stockbridge.
by Mike SmithDuring the last gubernatorial election, and then again just recently during the debate over teachers’ health insurance, Vermont Democrats underestimated the potency of GovernorPhil Scott’s affordability message.
by Joyce Marcel Vermont Business Magazine “My passion is to solve climate change with the electric grid,” says Christine Hallquist, the visionary head of the Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc and — in another in a long line of Vermont firsts — the first CEO in America to transition openly from male (David) to female (Christine).
Vermont Business MagazineThe Burlington Electric Department today is warning customers about an ongoing bill payment phone scam targeting primarily Burlington restaurants and encouraging them to sign up for scam alert notifications from the Attorney General’s Office.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Education Child Nutrition Program will host more than 350school food service directors, managers and staff, principals, administrative assistants, business managers, superintendents, farm-to-school coordinators, and nurses who work on child nutrition at theChild Nutrition Programs Summer Institutein Streeter Hall at St.
by Paul Cillo Public Assets Institute Vermont is lucky. Even with divided state government and occasional partisan spats, our leaders on both sides of the aisle can agree that taking health care away from millions of Americans is a bad idea.
Vermont Business Magazine Champlain College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review.