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Vermont Business Magazine The City of Burlington and the Burlington community have a significant investment in Burlington Telecom’s success and interests in ensuring affordable, effective, and responsive fiber optic services for its residents.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Labor’s Middlebury office will be hosting the US Census Bureau hiring event for Census Interviewers for the Addison County, Vermont area on Thursday, December 10, 2015 . The Vermont Department of Labor’s Middlebury office is located at 1590 Route 7, Suite 5, Middlebury, VT.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin will travel to Paris next week to attend 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The governor is one of three American governors participating in the summit, which brings together global leaders to develop a worldwide framework and agenda to combat climate change.

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Vermont Business Magazine Winter requires farmers to operate with great care and also abide by season-specific rules. "Winter presents all of us with weather-related challenges, but for farmers, there is a heightened need for vigilance," according the Chuck Ross, Vermont's Secretary of Agriculture.

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Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced today that a five-year, $305 billion transportation bill agreement reached Tuesday by House and Senate negotiators will deliver nearly $1.1 billion to Vermont to improve the state’s roadways.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday held a hearing on the impact of trade secret theft on American businesses.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Emergency Board on Tuesday approved Governor Peter Shumlin’s recommendation to increase the cap on the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive for projects in economically distressed regions of Vermont.

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Vermont Business Magazine Lieutenant Governor Phil Scott officially launched his campaign for governor Tuesday evening at the Sheraton Burlington. Scott had previously announced he was running.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Automaster has completed the final details of their BMW showroom renovation and celebrated its completion with a ribbon cutting ceremony held on November 11, 2015. Deconstruction began on November 24, 2014.

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Vermont Business Magazine Following years of planning and development with the Southeastern Vermont region’s business and non-profit community, residents and municipalities, the work of developing the Green Building and Services Economy in the Brattleboro area is under way.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin today announced a pilot program to test in Vermont a new treatment option for opiate addiction. Under the pilot, offenders coming out of Marble Valley Correctional Center in Rutland will now be offered naltrexone, an injected, long-acting medication that reduces the urge for opioid drugs like heroin or prescription painkillers.

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Vermont Business Magazine Property tax rates and public education spending will both go up next year, but both slower than the current year. The Commissioner of Taxes has released forecasts related to education tax rates for the upcoming fiscal year, FY2017.