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Released today, the Vermont Attorney General’s Proposed Bias-Free Policing Policy recognizes the civil rights of all people within Vermont’s borders.
KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) has announced that Chairman of the Board and CEO Henry L. Meyer III, 60, will retire effective May 1, 2011, and will be succeeded by Beth E. Mooney, currently Vice Chair of KeyCorp and leader of Key’s Community Banking business. In the interim, the Board elected Mooney as President and COO and a member of the KeyCorp Board of Directors.
During 2010 Northfield Savings Bank will donate more than $165,000 to fight hunger in Vermont. To help Vermonters who need short-term emergency food relief, Northfield Savings Bank donates to the Vermont Foodbank, Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, and several other food pantries.
Gary Scudder Recognized For His Ability to Engage Students in Global Learning(Burlington, VT. Nov. 18, 2010) ‘ Gary Scudder, assistant dean for Global Engagement at Champlain College has been named the 2010 Vermont Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
The Ethan Allen Institute, in cooperation with the University of Vermont and St Michael’s College is bringing Tom Palmer, PhD to the Burlington area on December 1 and 2 to speak with students at UVM and St Michael’s and at a public event at St Michael’s College McCarthy Arts Center in the evening of December 1.
Boralex Inc. and Gaz Métro à ole Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gaz Metro Limited Partnership, announce the acquisition of the rights on a wind power project having an installed capacity of 69 megawatts.
At the annual staff meeting held yesterday after the close of business, President and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth D Gibbons announced the results of the Board of Directors’ search for his successor as President of Union Bank (the ‘Bank’) and Union Bankshares, Inc.
Attorney General William H Sorrell announced today that Christopher Gaudette, age 37, has plead guilty to one charge of aggravated cruelty to animals in connection with his employment at Bushway Packing, Inc.
The US Department of Labor has announced initial funding allocations for Trade Adjustment Assistance for states to assist workers who lose their jobs due to outsourcing and foreign trade. Vermont will get nearly $14 million to cover jobs lost to foreign competition.
The retirement of the 76 million-member baby boom generation ‘ who begin turning 65 on January 1 ‘ will influence the US workforce for years to come. According to David Reville, Communications Director of AARP Vermont, the state, with one of the oldest populations in the nation, will feel the impact of retiring baby boomers more dramatically than elsewhere.
The US wind industry, which just experienced its slowest quarter since 2007, is in the midst of a three-day Wind Energy Fall Symposium in Phoenix, Ariz., and today will hear from General Colin L. Powell, U.S.A. (Ret.) in a keynote speech (open to attendees and trade press only).
To continue to stay ahead of rising demand for wireless voice, 3G multimedia and Internet access in Lamoille County, Vermont, Verizon Wireless has expanded its local network to the Jeffersonville area. Earlier this year the company earned recognition from J.D. Power and Associates for ‘Highest Call Quality Performance among Wireless Cell Phone Users in the Northeast’ *.