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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power’s office in Colchester is now home to two B Corps with the certification of Greenbanc, one of the energy innovators located in GMP’s Inspire Space.

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Vermont Business Magazine With its non-stop-since-Sunday, hardworking, talented Team Snowmageddon, Bromley Mountain in Peru will welcome Winter 2016/17 on Friday, 11/25 at 9am. The plan is to spin the Sun Mountain Express and Alpine Double from 9am to 4pm on Friday, and repeat on Saturday & Sunday beginning at 8:30am.

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Vermont Business Magazine On Monday, Salvation Army Volunteers began the daunting task of Un-stuffing two 53 foot long Bellavance tractor trailers at the Emergency food shelf on Keith Avenue in Barre. The Food Collected by 107.1 Frank-fm, Froggy 100.9 and 105.7 The Beat during the 15th Annual Stuff A Truck Food and Funds Drive comes at a dire time for the Ar

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Vermont Business Magazine Department of Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn and Vermont State Police Director Colonel Matthew Birmingham are pleased to announce that the Vermont State Police has become the first state police agency in the country to join the White House Police Data Initiative.

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Vermont Business Magazine City Market, a Member-owned cooperative, has declared their annual Patronage Refund to Members, one of the tangible benefits of Co-op Membership. Member purchases totaled over 68% of Co-op sales in fiscal year 2016, and the City Market Board of Directors has voted to return over $656,000 in cash to Members as this year’s Patronage Refund.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Railway announced today that the Shelburne Transload Facility is now fully operational with the first railcars of salt being unloaded this morning. Construction of the facility was completed in early November and Vermont Railway received its final permit authorizations on Monday.

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Vermont Business Magazine Thirty-two Vermonters who were deceived into purchasing nearly worthless memberships in the “Member Choice” travel club will receive partial refunds from some of the companies involved in the unfair and deceptive membership sales.

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Vermont Business Magazine On Tuesday, November 22, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) teamed up with Congressman Peter Welch, Montpelier Mayor John Hollar, Montpelier Alive and other business leaders to emphasize the importance of shopping locally.

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by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine United States District Judge Darrin P Gayles in Miami on Monday issued a preliminary injunction against Jay Peak owner Ariel Quiros, while also denying Quiros’ motion to dismiss the SEC complaint against him.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Congressman Peter Welch issued the following statements related to the announced deployment of the 158th Fighter Wing to the Central Command Area of Operations.

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by Bruce Edwards Vermont Business Magazine Michael Goldberg is the court-appointed receiver overseeing the assets of the EB-5 program run by Ariel Quiros of Miami and his partner, Jay Peak President William Stenger. On April 12, at the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US District Court in Miami appointed Goldberg receiver.

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Vermont Business Magazine Today, Governor Peter Shumlin announced that the first phase in final design for water line extensions to PFOA-impacted drinking water wells in North Bennington and Bennington has begun. Point-of-entry filtration systems are currently installed on impacted homes, providing clean water. The costs associated with the first phase of final design