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Vermont Business Magazine A perennial favorite with meeting planners, The Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Conference Center is proud to be a recipient of the 2016 Successful Meetings Pinnacle One Award.
Vermont Business Magazine - FirstLight Fiber (“FirstLight”), a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider operating in New York and Northern New England, announced today that Oak Hill Capital Partners (“Oak Hill”) has completed the acquisition of FirstLight. Oak H
Vermont Business Magazine Today Vermont sued Volkswagen AG and its affiliates Audi AG and Porsche AG, as well as their American subsidiaries, for the sale and lease of diesel automobiles that were fitted with illegal “defeat devices.” The devices concealed the release of large amounts of nitrogen oxides (commonly referred to as “NOx”), a harmful pollutant, in excess of Vermont’
Vermont Business Magazine A $50,000 appropriation was approved in the last legislative session to purchase sound monitoring equipment for Lyndon State College. The equipment will be used in the classroom to conduct research in a variety of industrial settings.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermonters are gathering at three events next week to celebrate the clean-air and cost-saving benefits of electric cars in support of the sixth annual National Drive Electric Week.
Vermont Business Magazine Julie Bushey of Highgate, Vermont was convicted on September 6, 2016 on two felony counts of Medicaid Fraud. The charges were related to a personal care services scheme in Franklin County that resulted in over $100,000 in losses to the Vermont Medicaid Program over a nearly five-year period.
by Joshua E Brown With nearly sixty percent of American adults now taking prescription medications—from antidepressants to cholesterol treatments—there is growing concern about how many drugs are flowing through wastewater treatment facilities and into rivers and lakes.
Vermont Business Magazine Picking up trash out of a river may not sound like the most fun way to spend a weekend morning, but the hundreds of Vermonters who annually participate in river cleanups would beg to differ. This September, join the fun by volunteering to clean up your local river as part of Vermont’s official River Cleanup Month.
by Michael Bielawski The town of Grafton will hold a vote on a 28-turbine wind energy plant proposed by Iberdrola Renewables. By a
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont tax revenues have suffered through several months below expectations, even as targets have been lowered, but in August they improved with the vital Personal Income Tax rebounding and the Corporate Tax leading the way. The one notable disappointment was the Sales Tax.
Vermont Business Magazine US Senate Candidate Scott Milne today announced that his campaign’s kick-off will be in Washington, VT, on Saturday, September 10, at 10 am. The public is invited to the event, which the campaign has labeled Bringing Washington, Vermont values to Washington, DC.
Vermont Business Magazine FairPoint Communications has completed broadband expansion projects in 38 towns in Vermont. As a result of these upgrades, faster broadband speeds are available to approximately 39,250 locations in these communities – including