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by Olga Peters/The Commons The road less traveled — a reference to Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken — served as a theme that accompanied Kevin FF Quigley as he took the helm last weekend as the ninth president of Marlboro College.
Vermont Business Magazine Despite nearly four years of work by Vermont’s congressional delegation, the Vermont Division of Emergency Management & Homeland Security, Agency of Transportation, and Agency of Natural Resources to help the town of Bennington secure funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for costs incurred during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011,
Vermont Business Magazine The AARP Fraud Watch Network lit up the phone lines today as part of a “Reverse Boiler Room,” dialing thousands of residents to warn them about two leading “imposter scams” hitting thousands of Vermonters – the IRS and “tech support” scams.
Vermont Business Magazine US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has announced the Department of Health and Human Services awarded $2.7 million to 10 community health centers throughout Vermont. The health centers will use this new federal funding to offer more than 3,700 additional Vermonters low-cost prescription drugs and medical, dental and mental health care services.
By Jim Condos, Vermont’s Secretary of State Vermonters deserve good government - and that includes an open and transparent government! By and large, Vermont is well served by our dedicated public servants. Most of our elected state and local officials are trustworthy, dedicated and passionate individuals working to do right by their constituents.
Vermont Business Magazine For the fifth consecutive time Seventh Generation has been ranked as the best company on the planet according to 'The Better World Shopping Guide,' a book that provides consumers with company ratings based on social and environmental responsibility.
Vermont Business Magazine BlueNRGY Group Limited, based in Florida, (OTC: CBDEF) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the monitoring platform and certain other assets of Draker, Inc, the leading independent provider of monitoring and data management services to the US solar ind
by Mike Faher/The Commons Take one look at the pale-green wall covered with white gauges in the Vermont Yankee control room, and it’s clear that the panel hasn’t changed much since the nuclear plant began operating in the early 1970s.
Vermont Dept of Tourism All of Vermont is still very green and in the early stages of color development with nice early colors -- particularly yellows -- emerging in the northeast and at higher elevations, even in central Vermont. Some dry sites, roadside sugar maples, and red maples in wetlands are showing typical early splashes of red.
Vermont Business Magazine Energize Vermont is pleased to announce that Pete Antos-Ketcham, formerly of the Green Mountain Club (GMC), has joined the organization as its new Executive Director. Antos-Ketcham succeeds Mark Whitworth. Pete Antos-Ketcham comes to Energize Vermont with over 22 years in natural resource and non-profit management.
by Erin Mansfield vtdigger.org Vermont Business Magazine Contributed to This Story Solar is the fastest-growing source of energy in the country, and Vermont’s solar industry is growing dramatically.