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Vermont Business Magazine With the median price heading back up toward $200,000, Vermont's housing market finally showed some strength in February, in a year-over-year analysis. The number of homes sold was also up, according to the RE/MAX of New England February Monthly Housing Report.
Mayor Miro Weinberger today announced the appointment of Neale Lunderville as the new General Manager of the Burlington Electric Department. Lunderville has been serving as the interim GM for the past eight months. Weinberger has asked the City Council to approve the appointment at its March 23, 2015 meeting. Lunderville will be paid $133,555.
by John Herrick vtdigger.org The House Ways and Means Committee gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a 0.2 percent increase in the property transfer tax. The money will be used to restore polluted waterways in Vermont. The tax is paid by property buyers. It can be added to the total closing cost of the property.
by Jeffrey R Wakefield Quebec has an abundance of electric power. Vermont and New England have a growing need for it. But what are the political, environmental, economic and policy issues involved in getting power from north to south?
Seventh Generation, a leading brand of non-toxic and renewable bio-based household, baby and personal care solutions, has called on Congress to strengthen the country's outdated chemical policy.
Julia Alvarez, a highly regarded novelist, poet, and essayist, and a 1971 Middlebury graduate, will deliver the 2015 Middlebury College commencement address on Sunday, May 24. Alvarez’s acclaimed novels In the Time of the Butterflies and How The García Girls Lost Their Accents are based on her life experience, the foundation for much of her work.
US Senator Patrick Leahy will welcome US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to Vermont this Friday, as she delivers the keynote address at the 2nd Leahy Center Environmental Summit. Leahy will introduce Jewell’s remarks at 2 pm, followed by a question and answer session with local news media representatives.
Despite lower gasoline and diesel fuel prices in the second half of 2014, the registrations of fuel-efficient clean diesel and hybrid cars and SUVS both showed double-digit increases in vehicle registrations in 2014, according to the latest data compiled by IHS Automotive for the Diesel Technology Forum. Vermont ranks 10th in growth of diesel vehicles sold from 2013 to 2014..
Mindy S Lubber, one of the world’s most influential leaders in harnessing capitalism for positive environmental outcomes, will be Green Mountain College’s 2015 commencement speaker on Saturday, May 16. Lubber is the president of Ceres, the leading US coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices.
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM) is pleased to announce the publication of a new resource, Using Food Hubs to Create Sustainable Farm to School Programs (available here), which explores the key rol
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets (VAAFM) has announced the availability of grant funds for the purpose of enhancing the competitiveness of Vermont specialty crops including fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture and nursery crops. These funds are awarded through a competitive review process guided by industry, nonprofit and government stakeholders.
Public Assets Institute Fewer Vermonters were working in 2014 than in 2004, according to revised figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The decade of stagnant employment contrasts with the previous 10 years. In 2004 the average number of working Vermonters was 34,000 greater than in 1994.