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Vermont Business Magazine PeakCM Construction has been named a Grand Prize winner of Wolverine’s Project Bootstrap.

Vermont State Police On August 20, 2015, Passumpsic Bank Officials from the St Johnsbury Center Branch reported to the Vermont State Police that an employee, Janet Katalina, embezzled money from the Bank’s own accounts (not a customer’s account). Katalina held the position of Accounting Analyst and Payroll Specialist.

Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Medical Center and the University of Vermont Medical Group recently announced the appointment of Rick Vincent to the position of vice president, Finance, and chief financial officer.

Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General William Sorrell has opened an investigation into the disclosure by Volkswagen that some of its diesel vehicles carried software designed to produce false emissions test results – violating clear air regulations and deceiving consumers.

by Adam Grinold, Executive Director, Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation On October 6, Southern Vermont will host the Vermont Council on Rural Development’s Regional Public Forum on Advancing Vermont’s Climate Change Economy. It takes place at the Latchis Theater from 7-9pm.

by Mike Faher/The Commons, Brattleboro In a town hit hard by the shutdown of Vermont Yankee, officials say a natural-gas plant — with development costs estimated at $750 million — may be in the works. The optimism in Vernon is carefully qualified, however. For one thing, the plant is far from a sure bet, and it’s not yet been disclosed which sites are under consideration.

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin today joined with the Vermont Department of Labor (VDOL) to highlight survey results focused on the perception of Vermont’s economy and job market by recent graduates and incoming seniors at St Michael’s College in Colchester.

Vermont Business Magazine State Agency officials, representatives from the Vermont Foodbank, and local grocers joined together Tuesday at the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf to recognize the contribution of food rescue to hunger relief.

Vermont Business Magazine The Department of Environmental Conservation approved a new plan to improve water quality in Lake Champlain. The Northern Lake Champlain Direct Drainages Tactical Basin Plan Plan compiles over two years of work focused on the health of the basin and development of targeted actions to remediate and protect surface waters.

Vermont Business Magazine The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has approved a new plan to improve water quality and acquatic habitat in the Stevens, Wells, Waits, and Ompompanoosuc river watersheds, as well as those of several direct tributaries to the middle Connecticut River.

by Mike Faher/The Commons, Brattleboro Not surprisingly, most scrutiny of the Vermont Yankee site in Vernon revolves around radiological concerns.

Vermont Business Magazine Within weeks after Attorney General William H. Sorrell and the Department of Public Service won a victory in a ruling by a three-judge Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on a request by Entergy to amend its license, Entergy seeks to abandon its request for a license amendment altogether.