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by Mike Donoghue, Vermont News First, Vermont Business Magazine A prominent world-renowned doctor based in Burlington is suing the University of Vermont Medical Center for medical negligence and wrongful death for the fatal overdose of his adult son five years ago. A jury will begin hearing testimony on Monday in the civil lawsuit brought by Dr. David N.
by Joshua Brown, UVM Magazine There are no fruit flies in Davi Bock’s kitchen. But head down into the basement of his 1850s farmhouse, on the end of a dirt road in Glover, Vt., and you’ll find them by the millions. Well, not really.
by Scott Waterman, VT Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets Vermont dairy farmers have achieved a critical benchmark from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Vermont Business Magazine The 580 members of Middlebury College’s Class of 2025—universally described as resilient because of their perseverance through a global pandemic and other world events—celebrated Commencement in the presence of family and friends on May 25.
Vermont Business Magazine This weekly report is a list of planned construction activities that will affect traffic on state highways and interstates throughout Vermont for the week of June 2, 2025. Please remember to drive safely in all work zones. Lives depend on it. Improvements are underway at the Exit 17 interchange.
by Bill Schubart As healthcare costs in Vermont gobble up more and more expendable resources needed for housing, education, property tax abatement etc. it’s time to ask hard questions and hold providers and their governing boards ethically and legally accountable for honest answers and transparency instead of further mission-failure and PR psychobabble.
Northeastern Vermont Development Association Governor Scott and the Department of Housing & Community Development announced recipients of the 2025 Downtown Transportation Fund grant awards.
by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Vermont weekly unemployment claims for the week ending May 24, 2025, were back over 300, after falling to their lowest number this year the week before. There had been the usual end-of-ski-season spike in April. New claims this week were 371, up 86 claims from the week before and are 70 more than last year at this time.
Vermont Business Magazine Essential Vermont Malt Whiskey, part of the Switchback Spirits lineup from Switchback Brewing Co., has been awarded a Gold Medal at the 2025 San Francisco World Spirits Competition (SFWSC), the most prestigious and influential competition in the global spirits industry.
Vermont Business Magazine Over 300 Southern Vermont community and business leaders, representing 160 different organizations from across the state and region, joined hosts Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) and Bennington County Regional Commission (BCRC) at Mount Snow in Dover, VT, on May 20 for the 8th annual Southern VT Economy Summit.
Vermont Business Magazine The Attorney General’s Office today announced the first recipient of the Vermont Attorney General’s Award for Academic Excellence in Domestic Violence Response at the Vermont Police Academy Graduation in Pittsford, Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine In a win for Vermont water quality, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (DC Circuit Court) has rejected the hydropower dam company Morrisville Water & Light’s (MWL) challenge in which MWL argued that the Agency of Natural Resources violated a provision of the federal Clean Water Act in their relicensing of the Lamoille River Basin Project.