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Vermont students are not just attending the University of Vermont in near record numbers, they're staying and graduating at historically high rates, the university announced today.
Diversity enrollment also reached an historic milestone this fall, officials announced.
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products was recently awarded an $11.5 million contract by the U.S. Navy for the production of six Aegis MK82 Illuminators, which include the MK82 guided missile director and the MK200 controller systems. Production will begin in early 2011.
The Vermont Economic Development Authority (VEDA) experienced an all-time high in loan volume in Fiscal Year 2010, closing 322 separate financings, and breaking the previous year’s record of 315 loans closed.
A Seattle-based law firm says that two top executives of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc (Nasdaq: GMCR) exercised nearly $8 million in stock options prior to an SEC inquiry.
AllEarth Renewables, a Vermont manufacturer of grid-connected wind turbines and solar tracking systems, has received a contract to install 382 AllSun Trackers at a solar farm in South Burlington, Vermont. Final permits have been issued on the project, and construction is scheduled to begin in early November.
Start Positive Loss Mitigation, LLC, a “foreclosure rescue” company based in Columbia, Maryland, has entered into a settlement with the Vermont Attorney General’s Office that will result in consumer refunds and payments to the State totaling $26,000.
A group of Vermont colleges, universities, and high schools has signed an agreement with a Chinese group to promote the schools to Chinese students seeking to study abroad, as well as opportunities for Vermonters to study there.
US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today announced a $175,000 federal energy efficiency grant for a 17-unit affordable housing project in the historic St. Stanislaus School and Convent buildings.
Robinson Elementary School, the Town of Starksboro, Vermont, and AllEarth Renewables, Inc. of Williston, Vermont have partnered to install 25 AllSun Trackers® on a field adjacent to the school. Over the course of a year, the 100 kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic array is expected to produce enough electricity to provide 100% of the electricity used in both the school and the town offices.
For the week of October 23, 2010, there were 1.054 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance, an increase of 302 from the week before, as claims are trending upward in October. Altogether 7,697 new and continuing claims were filed, an increase of 292 from a week ago and 2,284 fewer than a year earlier.
Attorney General William H Sorrell announced today that Frank Perretta, age 52, has pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of animal cruelty in connection with the operation of Bushway Packing, Inc.
A new report on Vermont’s non-profit affordable housing providers says the state should consider consolidating them and introducing performance measures to increase efficiency and accountability.