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By Ryan Janson. The Vermont Energy Company has been providing heating, air conditioning, and plumbing products and services to homes and businesses since 1984.
According to a new SEC filing, Vermont Energy attracted a $260,000 seed investment in order to grow their environmentally conscious gas station and convenience store business.
Fletcher Allen announced today it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to sell its outpatient renal dialysis centers to Fresenius Medical Care North America, a national provider of dialysis services with a clinical site in St Johnsbury, VT. The outpatient centers are located in South Burlington, St Albans, Berlin, Rutland and Newport and serve approximately 290 patients.
Mount Snow has announced its plan to open for skiing and riding on Thanksgiving Day. It will have lift serviced terrain for all ability levels including a full terrain park at Carinthia. In all four lifts will run servicing seven trails and two mountain faces.
Governor-elect Shumlin announced today that budget veteran Jim Reardon will continue as the Commissioner of Finance and Management. Commissioner Reardon is widely recognized for his ability to resolve longstanding financial reporting problems and for his abilities to develop agency budgets, goals, policies and work with the legislature on crafting the state budget.
Governor Jim Douglas today announced nearly $600,000 to help repair the fire-damaged building that houses Montpelier’s senior center, as well as to help develop 14 senior apartments on the site. That was one of several Vermont Community Development Program grants announced, which also included funds for two affordable housing groups to merge their operations.
The Vermont Department of Labor announced today the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October 2010 was 5.7 percent which is a decrease of one tenth of a percent from the previous month’s reported level of 5.8 percent. Vermont has the fifth lowest rate in the nation. New Hampshire is fourth at 5.4 percent. Vermont also added 700 jobs in one month and 1,900 jobs since October 2009.
Margolis, Healy & Associates (MH&A), of Richmond, a leading professional services firm specializing in higher education safety and security, today announced that it has received a Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) 2010 Competitive Grant for Enhancing Law Enforcement and Crime Prevention. BJA received 42 applications and made six awards for a total of $3,194,243 in funding.
This winter many Vermonters who do not qualify or have not applied for heating assistance will find themselves in need of help. For more than twenty years, VFDA’s Neighbor-in-Need programs have helped those Vermonters who are often too proud to ask.
Vermont Trophy & Engraving of Colchester announced today that it is the feature article in the December edition of A & E magazine, the largest and most widely read trade magazine for awards, engraving and recognition professionals.
Much like his first round of high-ranking appointments last week, Governor-elect Peter Shumlin announced key appointments to his cabinet today that contained a couple of surprises. The Governor-elect announced that Lawrence Miller will be the Secretary of Commerce and Community Development. Miller will work closely with Patricia Moulton-Powden who will be the Agency’s Deputy Secretary.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) today announced that it will restate its previously issued financial statements for fiscal years 2007, 2008 and 2009 and the first three quarters of fiscal year 2010 (including the quarterly data for fiscal years 2009 and 2010 and its selected financial data for the relevant periods), due to errors identified in these financial statements.
by James Dwinell. We interviewed Governor Howard Dean at the Hotel de Ville (aka City Hall) in Paris. We were in a deep window seat overlooking the Notre Dame Cathedral. The Hotel de Ville has been on this same location, though not the same building, since the 14th century.