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Vermont Business Magazine On Friday, April 29, Howard Center will join with more than 120 communities throughout the world that will present local screenings of the documentary Healing Voices. The goal of the “OneNight, OneVoice” screening is to create a global community dedicated to promoting awareness and creating action around the critical social issue of mental health.

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Vermont Business Magazine With the 35th annual Prouty coming to Hanover, NH, Friday and Saturday, July 8-9, organizers have their eyes set on crossing the $30 million threshold in total dollars raised since 1982.

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Vermont Business Magazine When Colchester-based VIP first acquired Nielsen's Beverage Data Network assets last year, both parties indicated their intent to embark on a long-term business relationship to collaboratively deliver best-in-class data collection, reporting and analytic services with end-to-end coverage across all tiers of beverage alcohol distribution.

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Vermont Business Magazine Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc (NYSE: BHLB) reported an 8 percent increase in first quarter core earnings per share to $0.54 in 2016 from $0.50 in 2015. The earnings improvement was driven by 26% revenue growth produced by the Company's expanded operations. First quarter GAAP EPS increased year-over-year to $0

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Vermont Business Magazine At Waterfront Park in Burlington this morning, Representative Peter Welch (D-VT) announced that the US Department of Commerce, in response to  bipartisan legislation

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Retail & Grocers Association, representing the majority of Vermont stores that sell food

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by Mike Smith I must admit, before reading the federal complaint against Bill Stenger and Ariel Quiros — the two principals in the EB-5 fraud scandal that has rocked the state — I convinced myself these types of schemes, rooted in massive greed and deception, had state borders; that Vermont was somehow immune to this kind of behavior.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Board voted on the Fish & Wildlife Department's proposal for antlerless deer hunting for 2016 at its monthly meeting on April 20 in Montpelier. "The number of muzzleloader season antlerless deer permits has increased to account for the expected increase in the deer population following the exceptionally mil

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Vermont Business Magazine Mobius is excited to announce that the organization has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation. This funding is supporting Mobius’ K-12 Mentoring Initiative, a collaborative effort between Mobius and adult-to-youth mentoring programs to provide mentoring services for Vermont youth. 

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Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power today reaffirmed its commitment to adhere to strict sound standards and thorough monitoring at its Kingdom Community Wind facility in Lowell.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin announced today new results from five water samples collected near the Pittsford Fire Academy. The results were received as part of the first batch of testing in the State’s effort to proactively investigate 11 additional sites statewide where perfluorocarbons may have been used.

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Vermont Business Magazine US Congressman Peter Welch and USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah joined federal, state and local officials in Williamstown on Earth Day to celebrate the town’s efforts to upgrade a 47-year-old wastewater system.