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Vermont Business Magazine Diane Imrie, the University of Vermont Medical Center’s director of Nutrition Services, has received a prestigious “Silver Plate Award” from the International Foodservice Manufacturing Association (IFMA).

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Vermont Business Magazine Vizient, Inc, the largest member-owned health care company in the US, has chosen the University of Vermont Medical Center to receive its President’s Award of Honor for performance-related achievements in supply chain during 2015.  To qualify for the President’s Award, organizations must be winners in at least two subcategories, which in the case o

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Vermont Business Magazine Student-athletes from Vermont Athletic Academy brought their mindfulness practice to Burlington’s waterfront last week to volunteer with Healing Winds Vermont on behalf of cancer pati

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Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont is organizing a free, online cannabis speaker series featuring five academic experts in medicine, botany, business, and policy. The series, presented by UVM Continuing and Distance Education and the UVM College of Medicine, will be May 25, June 8, June 22, and July 13.

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Vermont Business Magazine Famed author Gail Sheehy spun out a commencement address to the University of Vermont's Class of 2016 that transported her audience back to the UVM alumna's own college days in t

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Economic Development Authority (VEDA) announced tdoay that it has approved financing of $6.8 million to help Vermont economic development projects totaling $21.4 million move forward.

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Vermont Business Magazine In response to reports of Governor Shumlin’s Administration trying to transfer exempt appointees into full-time classified positions, Lieutenant Governor Scott, Senator Joe Benning (R-Caledonia) and Representative Don Turner (R-Milton) wrote the following letter  to Vermont Department of Human Resources Commissioner Maribeth Spellman requesting an

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Vermont Business Magazine The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Monday it has awarded 19 essential community anchor organizations with more than $8 million in direct loan, guaranteed loan and grant funding.

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Vermont Business Magazine Heidi Scheuermann (R-Stowe) announced today that she will run for re-election to the Vermont House of Representatives. Scheuermann had in past years considered a run for statewide office. She said there is much work to do in Montpelier in regards to state spending and management.

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Vermont Business Magazine With important Obamacare provisions that ensure no-cost birth control for women being challenged nationwide, Governor Peter Shumlin today signed a law to codify and expand access to those services in Vermont law.

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by C.B. Hall Vermont Business Magazine With a frustrating ski season receding into the past, Vermont's tourism sector is turning attention to how well it will fare as the rest of 2016 unfolds.

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by Mike Smith Being a US senator is a heady job. It provides stature, power and privilege that few Vermonters will ever enjoy or can even relate to. In fact, it is such a lofty position senators are often insulated from the public and media by large staffs and the considerable geographic distance between the home press corps and their official duties.