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Vermont Business Magazine Davis and Hodgdon Associates CPAs conducted its semi-annual economic survey in July regarding the outlook of Vermont-based businesses, which revealed that 51 percent of those surveyed would leave or make plans to leave Vermont.
by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Auditor Doug Hoffer has taken the Vermont Training Program to task for lack of internal controls and how wage improvements are reported, while questioning why a handful of some of the largest corporations in the state received the majority of direct business training funds.
Vermont Business Magazine The Velan Valve plant in Williston will lose about five workers as the steep fall in oil prices has caused its Montreal-based parent company to cut back. VBM estimates that there 160 employees in Vermont. Velan reports that it did $150 million in revenues in 2014.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont nearly swept the first annual Loving Support Award of Excellence, winning four of the nation’s five top honors (Gold Premiere), which recognizes state programs that champion peer counseling support for new breastfeeding mothers.
Vermont Business Magazine The Mt Ascutney Prevention Partnership (MAPP), a prevention coalition based at Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, was recently awarded a $45,000 grant from The Fanny Holt Ames and Edna Louise Holt Fund.
Vermont Business Magazine As Vermont WIC is moving from a home delivery system to a retail eWIC card system, the Health Department is leading learning sessions throughout October in Brattleboro, Wilmington, Westminster and Townshend. Starting in November, new Brattleboro WIC participants will have one card they can use to choose all their WIC foods at the grocery store.
Vermont Business Magazine Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vermont) announced today that three Vermont organizations received more than $3.1 million in federal grants from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.
Vermont Business Magazine As the director of public works for the Village of Enosburg Falls, Garry Atherton knows every street, every intersection and every sidewalk. What he wants to see is more sidewalks, and many more walkable connectors to recreation fields, boat launches, existing trails, and parks.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s clean energy economy continues to grow and create good jobs for Vermonters, according to a report released by Governor Peter Shumlin and the Department of Public Service (DPS) today in Williston.
by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine Deputy Housing Commissioner Jennifer Hollar is leaving her position in state government to work for the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board in Montpelier.
by Mike Smith There is nothing quite like the experience of bicycling past the glistening shores of the Champlain Islands, pedaling through Smugglers’ Notch or over the covered bridge in Woodstock. You don’t get the same sights, smells and exhilaration of accomplishment riding in a car as you do riding a bicycle.
Vermont Business Magazine Anyone driving anywhere near an apple orchard these days has noticed trees heavy with fruit.