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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Fire Safety Director Michael Desrochers and other fire officials are encouraging Vermonters to leave the fireworks to the experts this Independence Day. Most fireworks are illegal in Vermont without a permit and pose serious injury risk.

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Vermont Business Magazine - Working farms and forests give Vermont its beautiful rural character and unique sense of place while serving as an important part of the economy for many communities throughout the state. This fall, one event celebrates those great aspects of Vermont.

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Vermont Business Magazine Johnson State College has been designated Vermont’s premier public liberal arts college – a recognition that establishes JSC as the public version of Vermont’s more selective and costly private liberal arts colleges, such as Middlebury and Bennington.

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Vermont Business Magazine College of St Joseph, Rutland, will offer an Associate of Science in Health Science with a concentration in Medical Coding and Billing beginning this fall. College of St Joseph added the concentration in Medical Billing and Coding as a way to respond to needs in the health care community, as well as providing good-paying careers for our

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by Mike Faher/The Commons Several times a week, a tanker truck leaves Vermont Yankee carrying 5,000 gallons of tritium-tainted groundwater.

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Vermont Business Magazine Three icons of the craft beer world will discuss and compare craft brewing in two northern locations: the Nordic country of Denmark and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

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Vermont Business Magazine More than 125 supporters and friends gathered at the Gifford Medical Center in Randolph on June 28 to celebrate the closing of Vision for the Future, the largest capital campaign in Gifford’s 113-year history. “In planning our campaign we believed that every gift was important, large or modest, and that the willingness to g

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Vermont Business Magazine On the day that Vermont’s first-in-the-nation GMO labeling law goes into effect, Governor Peter Shumlin urged supporters to take to social media to show the rest of America how common sense labeling can work. The Governor also urged supporters nationwide to urge Congress to abandon its efforts to undermine Vermont’s law.

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Vermont Business Magazine Speaking from the steps of the Vermont State House, US Senator Bernie Sanders thanked Vermonters for standing up to powerful special interests and vowed to do everything in his power to defend Vermont’s first-in-the-nation law to label genetically modified food.

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Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims fell as anticipated last week. Claims tend to spike in June and fall back.

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Vermont Business Magazine For the second time in a week, Green Mountain Power is preparing for a strong wind, rain and lightning storm  that is expected to hit Friday afternoon and evening, causing outages across the state.

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Vermont Business Magazine VBM will again honor Vermont's most accomplished young leaders at the Rising Stars event held this fall. The nomination process is open from July 1 to September 2, 2016.