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by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine ArcLight Capital Partners, based in Boston, announced Tuesday that its affiliate, Great River Hydro, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TransCanada’s New England hydroelectric power portfolio for $1.065 billion. These dams include those on the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers in Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine FairPoint Communications, Inc (Nasdaq:FRP), a leading communications provider, has announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016. Revenue for the quarter was $207,141 versus $ 221,569 for the same time last year. Net income was $40,207 versus $ 53,054 last year.
Vermont Business Magazine The landscape of Northwest Vermont‘s property market continues to show healthy growth, with prices and sales rising at sustainable rates, according to the just released Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Fall 2016 Northwest Market Report.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing has named 13 Vermont organizations and businesses as recipients of this year’s Market Vermont program’s matching grants, which total $75,000. Each grant recipient will receive between $5,000-$10,000 to promote themselves outside of the state.
Vermont Business Magazine One of the nation's largest auto parts dealers is buying Vermont's largest one. Bond Auto Parts of Barre has entered into a definitive agreement to be purchased by O’Reilly Auto Parts, based in Springfield, Missouri. The deal was consumated on September 30 and announced on O'Reilly's Q3 report October 26 and then on Bond's website the next day.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Oxford Network (VON) and the National Association for Neonatal Nurses (NANN) have announced that the acclaimed VON Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Universal Education and Training Program, available online to individuals, centers, states, and health systems, has now been endorsed by NANN as the new standard of care for opiate-exposed infants
Vermont Business Magazine The secured creditor for the now defunct Burlington College has retained the Thomas Hirchak Company Auctioneers to sell assets of the former educational institution. Hirchak announced the auction today.
Vermont Business Magazine Inntopia, the Stowe-based travel industry’s leading eCommerce and central reservation provider, has acquired Ryan Solutions, a leading customer relationship management (CRM) and database marketing provider for the travel industry.
Vermont Business Magazine Yesterday the Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA) submitted a report to the Health Reform Oversight and Joint Fiscal committees detailing DVHA’s increased Medicaid payments for the Enhanced Primacy Care Program (EPCP). The new payment structure results in a net increase of approximately 8.9 percent to eligible primary care providers.
Vermont Business Magazine United Counseling Service (UCS) of Bennington County recently received its designated agency recertification from the Vermont Agency of Human Services.
Vermont Business Magazine Burlington's ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, has received a $148,599 Early Learning Initiative grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. Through this grant, ECHO will partner with Let’s Grow Kids, The Greater Burlington YMCA, The King Street Center and the Burlington Children’s Space to create high-quality curricula