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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin seems to have gotten his way so far in Vermont taking a deliberate course toward legalizing marijuana. The Senate Judiciary Committee this morning passed, by a vote of 4 to 1 S.241, legislation to legalize marijuana in Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Health Connect announced today that its Customer Support Center will offer special hours this weekend, the final weekend of open enrollment, to accept new applications and to assist with plan changes. Wait times may be long as the Sunday deadline approaches.
Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims have settled back into a more usual pattern and were unchanged from last week. Claims in 2015 generally were lower than in 2014, but since the holiday season they have been generally running ahead of the prior year.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Community Foundation, in partnership with some of its fundholders, awarded a total of $93,148 in Small and Inspiring grants to 41 organizations for local projects in communities across the state during the fall of 2015.
Vermont Business Magazine ECFiber located in Royalton, Vermont announced Thursday plans to increase its speeds by 40-500 percent, but not its prices.
by Robert Smith, Vermont Business Magazine Stuart Savel, of Brattleboro, ran a design/build and furniture making business in Westminster and then Chester, Vermont, for many years. He grew up in New Jersey and moved to Vermont in the winter of 1969-70.
Vermont Business Magazine The Northern Border Regional Commission, a federal-state partnership for economic and community development, has announced the availability of $1.7 million in grant funds for projects in Essex, Orleans, Caledonia, Lamoille, and Franklin counties and the towns of Alburgh, Isle La Motte, and South Hero in Grand Isle County.
Vermont Business Magazine Between 2007 and 2013, American motorists significantly reduced the amount they drive, lowering their per capita vehicles miles traveled (VMT) from 10,050 annually to 9,452, a 6 percent decline. This downward trend was even more pronounced in Vermont, where it has fallen by 8.4 percent.
Vermont Business Magazine (WARNING: THIS ARTICLE INCLUDES HARSH LANGUAGE) The Vermont Attorney General’s Office has completed a review of a Vermont State Police investigation of a police officer involved shooting incident that occurred on December 22, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine Middlebury College has been named winner of the inaugural Charles H.W. Foster Award for Exemplary Academic Leadership in Land Conservation, presented by Academics for Land Protection in New England (ALPINE), a program of Harvard University’s Harvard Forest. Middlebury earned the award for the conservation of its Bread Loaf campus in Ripton, Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine Paid sick leave in Vermont took another step toward being achieved, as the Senate Economic Development Committee voted the bill out Thursday with a 5-0 unanimous vote. The Healthy Workplaces bill (H187) passed the House last year with a vote of 72-63. Governor Peter Shumlin (D-Vermont) has called for the bill to pass and be sent to him f
Vermont Business Magazine Increases in local food consumption, jobs, and overall economic activity in the farm and food sector over the past five years are highlighted in the 2015 Farm to Plate Annual Report, released by the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund.