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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Division of Fire Safety Director Michael Desrochers is again kindly reminding Vermonters to have properly installed and maintained smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in their homes. So far in 2016 five Vermonters have been killed in fires and two more have died as a result of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin announced today that Saint-Gobain has agreed to cover costs for two engineering studies in Bennington and North Bennington. The engineering studies will determine the feasibility and costs of expanding municipal water supply infrastructure to service residences impacted by PFOA in the two towns.

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Vermont Business Magazine Van Jones, a CNN political contributor, attorney, author, and environmental and human rights activist, will deliver the 2016 Middlebury College commencement address on Sunday, May 29.

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Vermont Business Magazine What makes some parts of the Lake Champlain Basin and its watersheds resilient in the face of  extreme weather events, increasingly common in a warming Vermont, while

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Vermont Business Magazine Commissioner Christopher Recchia announced that the Department of Public Service (DPS) has awarded $913,054 from the Clean Energy Development Fund (CEDF) to increase the demand and supply for local wood heat.

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Vermont Business Magazine Dr. Ruth Seeler earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont in 1958 and her M.D. from UVM's College of Medicine in 1962 and is currently emerita professor of pediatric hematology-oncology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. In 2000, Dr.

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by Mike Faher/The Commons Back on home turf for one final “lunch with the governor” event, Governor Peter Shumlin got an honorary Brattle

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Vermont Business Magazine Superior Technical Ceramics (STC) announced today its official participation in the largest-ever U.S. delegation to Hannover Messe, the world's foremost trade fair for industrial technology.

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Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont has joined a new national scholarship  program aimed at motivating students to do well in high school and prepare better for college.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Thomas Hirchak Company, of Morrisville and Williston, wants every consumer in the area to know a simple buying and selling message: Auctions Work. That's why the company has taken part in the #AuctionsWork campaign during National Auctioneers Week, April 11-17.

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Vermont Business Magazine Champlain College President Donald J Laackman will confer more than 450 associate and bachelor degrees on May 14 during the College's 138th Undergraduate Commencement. The Saturday morning ceremony will include presenting honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees to musician Grace Potter, and author Katherine Paterson.

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Vermont Business Magazine Dr Robert Larner, University of Vermont Class of 1939 and UVM College of Medicine Class of 1942, and his wife, Helen Larner, say their philanthropic support for UVM is intended to ensure that the medical education provided by the University of Vermont College of Medicine is recognized as "second to none." The couple's latest gift, $19.7 million in comm