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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Creamery was recognized for excellence this week, winning the specialty food industry’s highest honor—a gold sofi Award for its Bijou aged goat cheese; Bonne Bouche was honored as a finalist. Bijou was one of 28 winners from over 3,200 entries in the Specialty Food Industry’s prestigious competition.

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Vermont Business Magazine A total of $20,000 was donated to the Vermont Foodbank as

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Vermont Business Magazine Gay L Landstrom, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, has been named interim Chief Executive Officer of Mt.

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Vermont Business Magazine Copley Hospital today held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its new 19,450 square-foot Surgical Center. State and local officials joined Copley Hospital CEO Art Mathisen and retiring CEO Mel Patashnick for the event that marks a construction project estimated to last 18 months.

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Vermont Business Magazine Wholesale power markets in New England operated competitively last year, bringing lower average power prices that reflected the drop in the price of natural gas in 2015, according to the 2015 Annual Ma

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Vermont Business Magazine The town of New Haven has expressed overwhelming support for the Vermont Green Line renewable energy transmission project, according to a survey undertaken by Anbaric, the project's developer.

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Vermont Business Magazine A new Vermont rule effective May 1 prevents invasive insects from piggybacking into the state on untreated firewood. As summer camping season arrives, visitors to Vermont should be prepared to buy firewood in-state or be able to verify that imported firewood is heat-treated to USDA-approved standards.

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Vermont Business Magazine At a time when some states are working to erode hard-fought advances in civil rights for the LGBT community, Governor Peter Shumlin today signed a law to advance them in Vermont by banning the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin provided an update today on results from private drinking water wells in North Bennington and Bennington tested for the harmful chemical PFOA, and detailed a small expansion to the sam

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by Paul Cillo Public Assets Institute A college degree can be the ticket to more job options and higher pay. And a well-educated workforce is critical to strong communities and a growing economy.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont State Police early Wednesday morning responded to a call from Chris Recchia, the state's commissioner of the Department of Public Service, of an apparent demonstration at his home in Randolph. Recchia told the group, which he said numbered 11 individuals, that they were trespassing and asked them to leave.

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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power rates continue to rank among the lowest of New England’s largest utilities, according to the most recent data compiled by the Edison Electric Institute.