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Vermont Business Magazine Norwich University continues its Todd Lecture Series with “An Evening with Madeleine Albright,’’ a presentation by the former United States Secretary of State on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, at 7 pm in Plumley Armory. This lecture is free and open to the public. Albright served as the 64th Secretary of State.
Vermont Business Magazine State and local leaders today announced a major financial boost to improve housing stock in Rutland County.
Vermont Business Magazine Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) announced today that it will close the James A FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, NY, near Oswego, in late 2016 or early 2017.
Vermont Business Magazine Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) reported today a third quarter 2015 as-reported loss of $4.04 per share, including $5.93 per share of non-cash asset impairments for Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and James A FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant. Entergy previously announced plans to close Pilgrim and today announced the closing of FitzPatrick.
Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin is in Montreal pitching Vermont as an ideal for place for Canadian companies to do business in the US, meeting today with leaders of the Quebec government and business community to discuss increased opportunities for investment, trade, and job growth on both sides of the border.
Vermont Business Magazine The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will assist a projected 77 Vermont and New Hampshire households perform necessary repairs and upgrades on their homes through its Housing Preservation Grant program.
by Rebecca Holcombe and Scott Giles Fifty years ago, on November 8, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Higher Education Act of 1965 into law. This historic act marked our first commitment to universal access to higher education, and represented one of the great achievements of the Civil Rights movement.
Vermont Business Magazine The Cancer Center Community Crusaders, a grassroots community organization that works to fund local cancer research and the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center’s Patient Resource Fund, raised more than $44K in their last fiscal year.
by Mike Faher vtdigger.org Less than seven months after Vermont Yankee ceased producing power, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s resident inspector office at the plant went dark. But even after pulling inspectors from the Vernon nuclear facility, the NRC pledged that “periodic and targeted” monitoring would continue.
Vermont Business Magazine In recognition of the exceptional leaders who have built and sustained the Vermont State Colleges (VSC) since 1961, the Board of Trustees will confer its first Award for Extraordinary Contribution as part of the new Vermont State Colleges Hall of Fame.
Vermont Business Magazine This is the most spotless dairy barn you've ever seen. Of course, it hasn't opened yet and won't be open until November 9, but even after that it should be as tidy as any place where cows milk might ever be.
Vermont Business Magazine The people of Vermont will now forever have access to one of the state’s most popular and well-loved recreation areas in Central Vermont—the Molly’s Falls Pond property, known by many as the “Marshfield Reservoir”. The Vermont Land Trust today announced the sale of 1,029 acres to the Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation.