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Vermont Business MagazineGovernor Phil Scotton Tuesday afternoon presented his proposed budget in a joint assembly of the Legislature at the Vermont State House, while reiterating his no new tax or fee campaign pledge. The governor invited lawmakers and advocates to work with him on bold solutions to our state’s toughest challenges.

Vermont Business Magazine The Barre Granite Association (barregranite.org) announced today that Douglas Grahn has been appointed to manage their strategic marketing initiatives

Vermont Business Magazine Several Vermont organizations responded to Governor Phil Scott's budget address on Tuesday. All those who offered remarks had a positive take on the new governor's balanced budget, which promised no-new-taxes, but offered more money for some educational strategies and affordable housing proposals.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) joined Senate Democratic leaders Tuesday to announce a 10-year, $1 trillion proposal to rebuild our nation’s crumbling infrastructure and create 15 million middle-class jobs.

Vermont Business Magazine Burke Mountain is proud to announce the US Ski Team has chosen the resort as an official US Ski Team development site where members will train and hold elite skiing competitions in preparation for the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Vermont Business Magazine Last night the House unanimously passed Representative Peter Welch’s (D-Vermont) bipartisan Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act. It will now be sent to the Senate where it is expected to pass and go to President Trump’s desk for signature into law. Welch two weeks ago introduced the bipartisan legislation to improve rural call completion.

Vermont Business Magazine The Boys and Girls Club of Burlington will receive $33,000 as the Comcast Foundation announced today that it has awarded nearly $740,000 in grants to 23 nonprofit organizations in New England in 2016.

by Jeffrey R WakefieldUVMStretching between Votey Hall, home to the University of Vermont’sCollege of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, and theLarner College of Medicine’s Medical Education Centeris a jumble of chain link fences, construction equipment and hulking, partially built structures – ground zero of an ambitious construction program, about half done, being underta

Vermont Business MagazineJames Fallows, one of the nation’s preeminent journalists, will give the commencement address at the University of Vermont, the university’s president, Tom Sullivan, announced in an email to campuson Mondayafternoon. Fallows will deliver his address onMay 21, the second day of UVM’s commencement weekend.

Vermont Business MagazineTed Mable, EdD, the Executive Director of Northwestern Counseling & Support Services (NCSS) has announced his retirement for June 2017. His near 20 year role at NCSS is the culmination of a career spent in service to the people of Vermont. Mable took the helm of the Franklin-Grand Isle Mental Health Agency in late 1997.

Vermont Business Magazine Bradford Psychiatric Associates (BPA) has assumed management of the former Green Mountain Family Medicine Clinic in White River Junction and Rutland. The two locations join the BPA office in Bradford providing office-based outpatient treatment (OBOT) services in three key geographical Vermont locations.

Vermont Business MagazineThe YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program helps adults at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes reduce their risk for developing the disease by taking steps that will improve their overall health and well-being.