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Vermont Business Magazine On December 18, 2015, Autumn Harp, Inc marked 500 days without a Lost-Time Injury (LTI) at its Essex Junction facility. With a total exposure of more than 450,000 employee hours worked in 2015, this is a significant milestone for the entire Autumn Harp team.
Vermont Business Magazine Seven members of the Lyndon State College community were named the Annual Alumni Award winners this fall at homecoming weekend.
Vermont Business Magazine A new analysis of the fossil record shows that a deep pattern in nature remained the same for 300 million years. Then, 6,000 years ago, the pattern was disrupted -- at about the same time that agriculture spread across North America.
Vermont Business Magazine Farmers and agricultural leaders from Vermont and New Hampshire gathered today at Norwich Farms to launch the Connecticut River Farmers’ Watershed Alliance (CRFWA), a new farmer led regional initiative that will work to sustain the environmental health of the Connecticut River watershed.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is urging people to wait for colder weather and snow before putting up their bird feeders in order to avoid attracting bears. The department is hearing from people who want to know if they should put out their bird feeders.
Vermont Business Magazine Warm conditions and even rain have caused Q Burke Resort to reset its ski calendar to a January 8 opening.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont home prices, which have struggled to gain ground even as the recovery continues, fell back again last month, even as the number of transactions increased again. Overall, the New England residential market remained steady through November 2015 with a 7.9 percent increase in sales over November 2014.
Vermont Business Magazine This fall, through the 2015-2016 Vermont Mentoring Grants initiative, Mobius awarded 27 grants, totaling $327,715, to support adult-to-youth mentoring programs throughout the state. This funding will support 106 new and existing program sites, and nearly 1,900 adult-to-youth mentor pairs in communities across Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine In a statement released today by the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, Bea Grause, RN, JD, currently the President and CEO of the VAHHS, has been named by the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) Board of Trustees to succeed Dennis P. Whalen as HANYS' next President upon his retirement in June 2016.
by Morgan True vtdigger.org The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington lost at least $1.5 million and perhaps as much as $2 million on a $3.65 million loan to Burlington College, according to financial statements from the church. In 2010, Burlington College bought the former diocese headquarters on North Avenue for $10 million.
by Joshua E Brown University of Vermont Led by researchers from the University of Vermont, the first national study to map US wild bees suggests they're disappearing in many of the country's most important farmlands -- including California's Central Valley, the Midwest's corn belt and the Mississippi River valley.
Vermont Business Magazine For the second year in a row, the University of Vermont Medical Center has been selected for the “50 Greenest Hospitals in America” list compiled by Becker’s Hospital Review, a leading industry journal.