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Melting snow and drying mud: It’s the time of year when everything rises to the surface. As spring takes center stage throughout New England, homeowners and contractors alike are using Vermont granite to beautify, reinforce, and redirect the forces of a long winter.
by Anne Galloway and Morgan True vtdigger.org Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has signed legislation designed to keep guns away from dangerous criminals and people with severe mental illness.
Kenneth Wheeling, the former director of the Shelburne Museum, has established a new UVM scholarship exclusively for Vermont students from Monkton, Vermont. The gift was made in honor of Wheeling’s late parents, Kenneth John Wheeling and Loretta Marie Wheeling. The estimated value of this endowment is $1 million.
Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims continue to spike and for the week of April 25, 2015, surpassed 1,000 for the first time this year. The transition from the end of the winter recreation season is resulting in a seasonal increase in unemployment claims.
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small aquaculture businesses and most private nonprofit organizations located in Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Windham and Windsor counties in Vermont that June 1, 2015, is the deadline to apply for a working capital disaster loan as a result of extreme temperature fluctuations, excessive cold
On May 1st, International Workers’ Day, hundreds of people from Vermont’s labor, disability rights, climate justice, migrant justice, and human rights movements will rally and march on the Vermont State House. March begins at 11:30 am at Montpelier City Hall. Participants will march to State House for a rally on the lawn.
Montreal-based Gaz Métro inc (GMi), as General Partner of Gaz Métro Limited Partnership (Gaz Métro), has announced that Gaz Métro completed an equity offering by issuing by way of a private placement 8,181,818 new units from its treasury at a price of $16.50 per unit to GMi and Valener Inc.
Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the U.S., has reached an agreement with Saslow Lufkin & Buggy, LLP (SLB) to have its partners and professionals join Crowe on July 1.
President Obama signed into law on Thursday Representative Peter Welch’s (D-Vermont) energy efficiency bill.
A recently announced $7.4 million, five-year grant from the US Department of Agriculture will place the University of Vermont at the forefront of a national effort to reduce the impact of catastrophic disease outbreaks within the US livestock industry. UVM will lead the multi-institutional effort, multi-disciplinary biosecurity initiative.