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Vermont Business Magazine Burlington Electric Department today is warning its customers against a bill payment scam underway in Burlington. The scam involves BED customers – in particular, hair salons – receiving phone calls from persons identifying themselves as BED representatives threatening to cut off their power if outstanding bills are not paid within one hour.
Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin, Barre Mayor Thom Lauzon, and public safety and emergency management officials today provided an update on last night’s flooding affecting parts of eastern and central Vermont, including Barre and Plainfield. The fast-moving storm dropped between four and six inches of rain last night.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Gas on Friday submitted its latest quarterly filing regarding its Addison Rutland Natural Gas Project (ARNGP) with the Vermont Public Service Board. The company reports no material change in overall cost for the project since its last filing in April 2015.
Vermont Business Magazine Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) on Friday joined officials and researchers at the University of Vermont Miller Farm to announce that more than $15 million in grants and funding has been awarded to the university in the year-and-a-half since the 2014 Farm Bill was signed into law.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin along with music legend and activist Neil Young on Sunday urged support for the Vermont Food Fight Fund, which was established to protect Vermont’s mandatory GMO labeling law from those waging a legal battle to overturn it. Young announced a $100,000 donation to the fund, bringing the total raised so far to $550,000.
by Governor Peter Shumlin Last week I traveled to Toronto to attend the Climate Summit of the Americas, which brought together Pan-American governmental, advocacy, energy, and climate change leaders to share ideas on how we can work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and capitalize on a cleaner energy economy to grow jobs and opportunity.
Vermont Business Magazine A retirement incentive program passed in the recently concluded Vermont State legislative session will give 300 executive branch employees the opportunity to retire this year and receive as much as $15,000 in cash. The State Treasurer’s Office Friday mailed over 900 letters and program applications to eligible employees.
by Erin Mansfield vtdigger.org A plan for a large development off I-89 in Randolph drew stiff criticism in a preliminary environmental review hearing Friday. Jesse “Sam” Sammis wants to build a 1.15-million-square-foot, 173-acre project on farmland just off the Exit 4 ramp of Interstate 89.
Vermont Business Magazine The winners of Vermont's 2015 moose hunting permits were determined Thursday, July 16, at a lottery drawing in Barre. Governor Peter Shumlin, standing alongside Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Louis Porter, started the computer-generated selection process that randomly picked 265 winners from more than 9,500 lottery applicants.
Vermont Business Magazine The Rural Community Transportation has a new home in the St Johnsbury/Lyndon Industrial Park. The public transportation agency recently moved its offices from Portland Street in St Johnsbury to its new Industrial Parkway location.
Vermont Business Magazine According to the Vermont Attorney General's office, Carmen Gross, age 40, of East Corinth was arraigned on two felony counts of Financial Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult on July 8, 2015, in the Vermont Superior Court, Orange Criminal Division, in Chelsea.
Vermont Business Magazine People's United Financial, Inc (NASDAQ: PBCT), the parent company of People's United Bank with branches throughout Vermont, on Thursday reported net income of $61.7 million, or $0.20 per share, for the second quarter of 2015 (Return on Assets .70 percent), compared to $72.3 million, or $0.24 per share, for the second quarter of 2014 (ROA .72 percent),