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Vermont Business Magazine - Whether organizational change results from reorganization, acquisition, merger, downsizing or new strategic direction, there are unique components to a change situation that demand special communication considerations for internal and external publics.

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Vermont Business Magazine - Gov. Peter Shumlin issued the following statement after the Green Mountain Care Board approved a plan that will allow Vermont to transform its health care system so it rewards quality of care rather than quantity of care.

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Vermont Business Magazine This past summer Castleton University was awarded $85,000 for year one of a three year, $275,000 grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to enhance integrative learning on campus.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont congressional delegation today announced that the Vermont Student Assistance Corp will receive $2.4 million over five years in a federal Educational Opportunity Center grant to promote education and workforce development with Vermont adults. In a joint statement, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-

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Vermont Business Magazine Today Mayor Miro Weinberger, Parks, Recreation & Waterfront Department (DPRW), the Burlington Parks Foundation, and other City officials celebrated the Parks Foundation reaching its goal of raising $1 million in support of the rehabilitation of the Waterfront Bike Path.

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Vermont Business Magazine VSECU announced today its going solar, unveiling a solar array in Guilford that will allow the 60,000-member, nine-branch credit union to offset its Green Mountain Power electricity consumption by purchasing the net metering credits produced by the array.

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Vermont Business Magazine The US Department of Labor recently announced $140 million in grant awards through the end of Program Year 2016 ($337 million annually for an additional 3 years) in job training grants to 19 organizations nationwide, including a $10.2 million annual award to Vermont Associates for Training and Development, Inc, a non-profit headquartered in St.

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by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine Merchants Bancshares (NASDAQ: MBVT), the holding company for Vermont's largest, locally based bank, will be acquired next year by Community Bank System, Inc, (NYSE: CBU) based near Syracuse, NY. Merchants Bank, based in South Burlington, is a $1.9 billion financial institution, while Community Bank is $8.7 billion.

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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power’s Stafford Hill Solar Farm in Rutland, one of the nation’s first micro-grids powered solely by solar and battery back-up, is now the first in the region to use battery storage to reduce peak power usage, benefiting customers by saving $200,000 in one hour.

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Vermont Business Magazine Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont (BCBSVT) is pleased to announce its competitively priced, highest-ranking Medicare Part D prescription drug plan options for 2017. BCBSVT also reminds Vermonters of the open enrollment period, which runs from October 15 to December 7, 2016 with enrollment effective on January 1, 2017.

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Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network has become the newest owner to join Greenhealth Exchange (GX) -- a purchasing cooperative that makes it easy to source products and services used in health care settings that are good for people, the planet and the bottom line.

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Vermont Business Magazine Brattleboro Memorial Hospital President and CEO Steven R Gordon has announced changes within the leadership of the hospital’s Information Services Department, including the promotion of Steven P Cummings from Chief Implementation Officer to Vice President for Information and Support Services and Jonathan Farina from Director of Informati