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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development has issued $464,000 in Municipal Planning Grant awards to 38 communities across Vermont. This year’s Municipal Planning Grants range from $3,159 to $20,000, with total requests exceeding $780,000. Competitively awarded, 69 total applications were reviewed.
Vermont Business Magazine The Humane Society of Chittenden County (HSCC) rehomes nearly 1,000 companion animals every year. The cost of adoption in no way pays for the sheltering and medical care of these animals. For this we rely on the generosity of the community and our business partners.
Vermont Business Magazine Milk Money L3C, an equity crowdfunding portal for Vermonters, announces its fifth Invest Local campaign, The Vermont Hay Company maker of Tim’s Real Easter Basket 
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Vermont Business Magazine Lower unemployment, increased high school graduation rates and a drop in violent crime, among other factors, drove multiple years of increased opportunity in the US, with Vermont achieving the highest score. But the nation's Opportunity Score remained unchanged since last year, according to the 2016 Opportunity Index.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont state game wardens arrested Nicholas Robert, 29, of Fairfield, Vermont on December 6 and charged him with four counts of taking deer during closed season and hunting deer with bait. Game Warden Dustin Snyder received a tip of several, potentially illegal, deer hanging in a tree in the woods in Fairfield.
Vermont Business Magazine The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Watch for areas of central and northeast Vermont Thursday afternoon into Friday morning. Wind chills in the Watch area could reach as low as 35-below zero. Other areas of Vermont outside the Watch area could experience wind chills colder than 20-below.
Vermont Business Magazine Peak Resorts , the parent company of Mount Snow, announced Tuesday the release of $52 million in EB-5 funding from escrow.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin and Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy in Brattleboro announced today that the State of Vermont and Town of Brattleboro will provide over $2 million in State and Local incentives in return for the Company locating its Headquarters in Brattleboro and undertaking a plant expansion in 2017.
by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine The Jay Peak receiver and his team will finally get paid. The federal court in Miami on Tuesday ordered that funds from the Citibank settlement be used to cover the pay and expenses of $1,953,467.59 for receiver Michael Goldberg and his associates now running Jay Peak and Burke Mountain resorts.
Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General William Sorrell led a group of thirteen states and the District of Columbia, and worked with the Federal Trade Commission to enter Consent Judgments today with ruby Corp, which owns the AshleyMadison.com website. The State of Vermont, as the lead state, will receive an immediate payment of $116,000.
Vermont Business Magazine US Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and US Representative Peter Welch, D-Vermont, on Tuesday called upon the CEOs of FairPoint Communications and the Illinois company that is set to purchase it, Consolidated Communications Holdings, to reverse the planned layoff of nearly 10 percent of FairPoint’s workforce.
Vermont Business Magazine Resource Systems Group, Inc (RSG) has earned recognition as a Partner-level supplier for 2016 in the John Deere Achieving Excellence Program. The Partner-level status is Deere & Company’s highest supplier rating.