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Vermont Business Magazine Merchants Bank is delighted to announce that they recently presented The DREAM Program with a $15,000 donation.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Taxes and the home-hotel service Airbnb have worked out a deal in which Airbnb will collect meals and rooms tax on payment for lodging offered by its hosts.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Champlain Housing Trust announced today it had exceeded a benchmark set by Governor Shumlin to house more people who are without a home.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Orton family, proprietors of The Vermont Country Store, announced today that the company’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Jim Hall has been promoted to president of the 70-year-old business.

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by Mike Faher/The Commons, Brattleboro The town of Rockingham has notched a major victory in its years-long tax battle with energy giant TransCanada.

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Vermont Environmental Consortium Recently, there have been many news reports documenting contamination of drinking water sources with "emerging contaminants" such as perfluorinated compounds (PFC) above USEPA and individual state health advisory levels.

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Vermont Business Magazine Northern Power Systems Corp (TSX: NPS), a Barre-based next generation renewable energy technology company, on Wednesday announced financial results and completed its quarterly filing requirements for its second quarter ended June 30, 2016. The company expects trading to resume within four to five business days after this filing.

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Vermont Business Magazine Students who visit Sterling College during its October 8 Open House are eligible for a $2,500 scholarship to study environmental stewardship. Sterling announced that it is offering a one-time scholarship opportunity for students who submit a 500-word essay by October 7, answering this question: “The year is 2050.

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Vermont Business Magazine Phil Scott, candidate for Governor, released a comprehensive economic development plan at a press conference today, reinforcing his commitment to making the economy and affordability his top priorities.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Arts Council, in association with the governor’s office, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Governor’s Arts Awards. These awards are presented annually to recognize outstanding individual and organizational contributions to the arts.

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Vermont Business Magazine The following is a comment from Leahy For Vermont Communications Director Jay Tilton on Scott Milne’s official launch to his campaign For United States Senate on Saturday, September 9, 2016.

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Vermont Business Magazine In response to VT Digger’s story regarding the tangled web of impropriety that in Pat Leahy’s world passes for business as usual, US S