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Award-winning filmmaker, author, and mountaineer Jennifer Jordan ’76 will deliver the commencement address at Sterling College’s 16th baccalaureate commencement ceremony, to be held at the College’s Houston House Gardens at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, 2015. The College will confer degrees on 20 students.
BioTek Instruments, based in Winooski, will demonstrate their latest microplate-based imaging, detection and liquid handling solutions for cancer research at the AACR Annual Meeting to be held April 18-22 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
by Timothy McQuiston If you build it, they will come. That was message from Jay Peak’s Bill Stenger and his team of scientists and marketing specialists regarding the proposed AnC Bio plant in Newport. And for the first time, Stenger put a date on when it would be built.
Britton Lumber Company announced today it plans to rebuild its sawmill.
Early Friday, the McNeil Generating Station completed its longest continual operating stretch – 93 days – in the plant’s 30-year history. Operators took the plant offline on Friday morning in preparation for its annual spring maintenance outage.
Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims edged up again for the week of April 4, 2015. There were 601 new, regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance in Vermont, an increase of 33 from the previous week's total, but 230 fewer than they were a year ago.
“Veni. Vidi. Signati,” Governor Peter Shumlin said Friday at the University of Vermont as he signed into law S2, a bill that gives Vermont an official Latin motto. The motto, “Stella quarta decima fulgeat,” meaning “May the fourteenth star shine bright,” is a reference to Vermont’s status as the fourteenth state to join the United States.
by Morgan True vtdigger.org The prospects for a payroll tax to finance Governor Peter Shumlin’s health care reform plan are fading as attention shifts to the Senate. It’s too late for the proposal to go anywhere in the House, which is trudging forward with its own, more modest health care package that could hit the floor late next week.
Community Capital of Vermont, New England’s highest volume SBA micro-lender, provided loans to tradespeople, restaurant entrepreneurs, food artisans, and service providers in the first quarter of 2015. Loan amounts ranged from $2,000 to $70,000 per business, and businesses were spread among Rutland, Washington, Lamoille, and Caledonia counties.
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets (VAAFM) is working with farmers to help prepare for implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). FSMA is the most sweeping reform of our nation’s food safety laws in more than 70 years, and was signed into law by President Obama on January 4, 2011.
EPA is making grant money available for New England communities to reduce environmental risks, protect and improve human health and improve the quality of life. EPA New England’s Healthy Communities Grant Program is currently accepting initial proposals for projects that will benefit one or more New England communities.
The southern Vermont town of Manchester has increased its emergency response systems with Sovernet Communication’s state-of-the-art fiber network. Town officials credit the recent data network upgrade for directly strengthening the town’s police department and Emergency Management Office responsiveness and, in addition, enabling a number of municipal online initiatives.