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Vermont Business Magazine Katherine McCann, a High School Mathematics Teacher at U-32 Middle and High School in East Montpelier; has been selected as the 2017 Vermont Teacher of the Year (VT-TOY); the Agency of Education announced today.

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Vermont Business Magazine A small business group in Vermont says Republicans in Congress and President-elect Trump have declared a plan to rush through legislation that would take away health care from more than 30 million people.

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Vermont Business Magazine An Executive Order signed by Governor Peter Shumlin that gives businesses fighting climate change preference in the state contracting process has been finalized.

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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power announced today it is the first utility in the nation to provide customers with true energy independence and offer the ultimate in customer empowerment: to go off-grid with a new package of products and services to increase energy independence and reduce carbon emissions by more than 30 percent.

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Vermont Business Magazine Brattleboro Memorial Hospital President and CEO Steven R Gordon and Groundworks Collaborative Executive Director Joshua Davis are pleased to announce that a $25,000 grant was recently received from the Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation, Inc and $5,000 from the Vermont Mutual Insurance Community Foundation to underwrite the services of the newly c

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Vermont Business Magazine Microhospitals, modernization of Emergency Departments, infection control and behavioral health will change both the care and look of health care in the future.  E4H Environments for Health, a Williston-based architecture firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has  released five predictions for healthcare facility design trends

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Vermont Business Magazine AARP Vermont has released results of a national study which shows that this is the fourth straight year of double-digit price average annual increases for widely used brand name drugs.

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Vermont Business Magazine At the recent annual meeting of Washington County Mental Health Services, the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CCPS) program recognized Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont for its collaboration and support of both CCPS’s services and service recipients.

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Vermont Business Magazine Champlain College's David L Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry in the Stiller School of Business has received a $1 million gift from the Stiller Family Foundation to plan and convene a national Positive Education Summit that will use Appreciative Inquiry to accelerate positive education from early childhood on up.

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Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims fell steeply last week, as claims spike and fall during the holidays. While this is typical for this time of year, claims are actually lower than they were last year. Most industrial sectors saw at least some decrease for the week, with Construction seeing the biggest increase while Manufacturing fell to under 40 claims.

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Vermont Business Magazine The second Shires of Vermont Regional Summit was held on November 30 at the Dana Thompson Park House in Manchester.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Secretary of Administration Trey Martin will return to private law practice with his former firm Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, after Governor Peter Shumlin leaves office on January 5. According to a DRM statement, Martin will practice principally in the areas of land use, energy and environmental law and government affairs.