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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today invited agricultural producers and rural small businesses to apply for loans and grants to implement renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements. In addition, the program also provides funding to complete feasibility studies for renewable energy generation systems and energy efficiency improvements.

A New Life for Laundry Caps: Seventh Generation Partners With Preserve's 'Gimme 5' Program to Create New Post-Consumer Packaging From #5 Plastic

Copley Hospital has been honored for healthcare marketing excellence in the 2011 Aster Awards Competition. The hospital received a SILVER recognition in this year’s competition for their Copley Birthing Center newspaper advertising series ‘â ¦you’re family now.’

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) Thursday announced that it has priced its public offering of an aggregate of 8,189,544 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $71.00 per share. Certain stockholders are also offering an aggregate of 410,456 shares of common stock in the offering at the same price to the public.

Here are two views on Vermont's attempt to reform the health care system, one from John McClaughry of the Ethan Allen Insitute and the other from Andrea Cohen of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility.

There were 889 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance last week, a decrease of 764 from the week before. Altogether 11,520 new and continuing claims were filed, a decrease of 733 from a week ago and 1,931 fewer than a year earlier. The Department also processed 1,990 First Tier claims for benefits under Emergency Unemployment Compensation, 2008 (EUC08), 18 fewer than a week ago.

by Anne Galloway, www.vtdigger.org May 5, 2011 After several days of intense negotiation, leaders of the House and Senate agreed to a tax package last night that the Shumlin administration can apparently live with.

A bill promoting renewable energy development in Vermont and clean energy jobs won final approval by the Vermont Legislature late yesterday.

Governor Peter Shumlin has declared a State of Emergency for the state of Vermont. This declaration allows the state to utilize assets from the Vermont National Guard in responding to the flood. The governor said some 500 homes have been severely damaged or destroyed. Lake Champlain is expected to crest at 103.2 feet above sea level Friday, or more than a foot above the previous record high.

Governor Peter Shumlin and Vermont Troopers’ Association (VTA) President Michael O’Neil announced today that the Administration and the VTA have reached an agreement on a new labor contract, subject to ratification by the VTA membership.

Vermont Law School, the nation’s premier environmental law and policy school, will launch two online degree programs on May 16, including the first online master’s degree program in environmental law in the United States.

The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) is working to stay ahead of the weather to keep roads open and safe for the traveling public. VTrans has shored up roads wherever possible and implemented detours where needed in response to continuing rainfall and rising lake levels. (BELOW ARE THE VTRANS UPDATES AS OF 4 PM THURSDAY.)