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Vermont Business Magazine US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today the award of nearly $10 million in grants under two funding opportunities to 46 organizations that will help permanent residents prepare and apply for US citizenship.

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Vermont Business Magazine As Vermonters face issues of drug crime and opiate addiction, correctional housing, and other criminal justice concerns, Vermont representatives have been selected to participate in a summit that will give state leaders new perspectives on potential solutions to these challenges.

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Vermont Business Magazine Gov Peter Shumlin announced that August Burns of Middlesex has been commissioned to paint his official portrait, which will be donated to the State House collection.

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Vermont Business Magazine BioTek Instruments is pleased to congratulate Christopher Ziegler as the recipient of the 2016 Norman R Alpert Research Prize.

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Vermont Business Magazine State officials recently discovered the presence of an invasive clam species in Lake Bomoseen.

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Vermont Business Magazine As a percent of US adults, Vermont ranks #1 in reading literature, #2 in performing or creating artworks, and #2 in attending art exhibits.

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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power has wrapped up its fourth summer of public tours at Kingdom Community Wind in Lowell. Each summer since the project came online, the Company has invited visitors and Vermonters alike to tour the working wind farm. Green Mountain Power offers the free tours once a week during the summer months.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s congressional delegation – Senator Patrick Leahy (D), Senator Bernie Sanders (I) and Representative Peter Welch (D) -- announced Wednesday that Vermont will receive $371,616, the maximum grant award possible, of about $9 million awarded nationwide in federal opioid abuse prevention grants from the U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin joined four other New England governors and five eastern Canadian premiers to sign a resolution this week committing to conserve three major multistate and provincial forests and waterways in the face of climate change.  Together they resolved to work across borders to maintain connected forests from the northern App

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Vermont Business Magazine Kiplinger has released its ranking of the best and worst states for taxes. Kiplinger’s fourth annual Tax Map reveals income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, “sin” taxes (for products such as alcohol and tobacco) and other tax rules and exemptions across all 50 states and Washington, DC.

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Vermont Business Magazine In light of recent stories about cyberattacks on election databases in Arizona and Illinois, Secretary of State Jim Condos wants voters to be aware of the work he and his office have done to protect Vermont elections and reassure them their votes and voter information are safe. “As Vermont’s chief elections officer, election integrity is amon

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Vermont Business Magazine Lisaius Marketing, now Tenth Crow Creative, reveals its new look. For over 20 years, the charming brick house on College Street (between Willard and Union streets) has been occupied by Lisaius Marketing, a marketing agency that has been quietly producing some of the most recognizable branding work in Vermont.