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Vermont Business Magazine Moody’s Investors Service revised the City of Burlington’s outlook to positive and affirmed the City’s A3 credit rating on Monday (see Burlington ratings table below). In itsCredit Report released March 13, Moody’s stated “The city remains committed to improving its financial position and has generated four consecutive surpluses (audited 2013-2016).
Vermont Business Magazine The Website 24/7 Wall St (247wallst.com) has recently released its ranking of The Safest States in America, with Vermont comingin first. New England did well in the study, which leaned heavily on crime statistics. Maine was number 2, New Hampshire was number 4 and Connecticut was number 6.
Public Assets Institute The year is off to a good start: Vermont added 1,300 jobs in January, all in the private sector. Since January 2016 the private sector has netted 2,700 new jobs, many of them in accommodation and food service and health care and social assistance services. With nearly 260,000 private sector jobs, Vermont hit an all-time peak in January.
Vermont Business MagazineLandWorks recently received an Honor Award for their work in the development of South Burlington’s planned Dumont Park, which will provide a publicly accessible passive recreation space that will serve South Burlington’s envisioned City Center downtown and surrounding areas.
Vermont Business Magazine Tim Burke of White + Burke Real Estate Investment Advisors, Inc of Burlington, is pleased to announce the recent purchase of a 2.88 acre commercial lot at the corner of Shelburne Falls Road and Route 116 in Hinesburg, VT by The University of Vermont Medical Center.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermonters who participate in 4-H attend college at higher rates than average, according to an assessment of student data conducted by the University of Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Youth Orchestra Association (VYOA) has named Benjamin Klemme, DMA, Davenport, IA, to the position of music director, effective July 1, 
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Vermont Business Magazine It’s no secret that personal credit scores are a barometer of financial strength. The better your score, the easier (and cheaper) it is to get things like a mortgage or car loan. But, did you know small business owners have a separate business credit score for their company?
Vermont Business Magazine FirstLight Fiber, a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider operating in the Northeast, announced today that Oak Hill Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of Sovernet Communications and has combined the operations of Sovernet with FirstLight.
Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General Thomas JDonovan, Jr, joined nine other attorneys general yesterday and filed an amicus brief in the Federal District Court for Hawaii in support of the State of Hawaii’s request for a temporary restraining order enjoining the enforcement of the revised Executive Order issued on March 6, 2017.
Vermont Business MagazineThe Cancer Center Community Crusaders (4Cs) hosted their 3rd Annual Cabin Fever Dance at the Elks Lodge in Bennington, VT, on Saturday, February 25. The event welcomed over 250 guests and raised nearly $3,000 for the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center's (SVRCC) Patient Resource Fund.
Vermont Business Magazine Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) issued the following statements Monday afterthe nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that the House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would raise the number of people without health insurance by 24 million.