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PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it has acquired Tunbridge, Vermont-based Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment magazine and the website FireMagazine.com. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Construction job gains were more widespread across the country and job losses were generally less severe in July than in June, the Associated General Contractors of America reported in an analysis of state employment data released today by the Labor Department.
The Vermont Department of Labor announced today the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for July 2010 was unchanged from the previous month’s report holding steady at 6.0 percent. Compared to a year ago, the July unemployment rate is lower by 1.1 percent. Compared to the US rate, Vermont is 3.5 points lower than the national average.
A spokesman for the Vermont Agency of Transportation has clarified Congress’ recent decision to rescind nearly $8.5 million in funding from the Vermont Agency of Transportation. There has been some concern among the public that this cut will have an effect on bicycle, pedestrian, trail and enhancement programs within the State of Vermont.
Jane C Graiko of Essex Junction, Vermont, is the winner of the 2010 Ralph Nading Hill, Jr. Literary Prize awarded annually by Green Mountain Power and Vermont Life magazine.
PreLaw magazine has ranked Vermont Law School as among the top environmental law schools in the nation. In preLaw’s “Back to School” 2010 edition released Tuesday, VLS and three other law schools received the magazine’s summa cum laude ranking as the best of the best for their environmental law programs and green campus practices.
Five agencies in Vermont will receive about $4.7 million to provide solar thermal and solar hot water technologies for Vermont families, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Peter Welch (D-VT) announced today.
The University of Maine and the University of Vermont are joining forces this fall to offer a research-based online weight management course that helps college students develop healthy eating and exercise habits.
University Mall has announced a 100 percent occupancy rate, as of September 2010, in itsr 612,000-square-foot, 75-store shopping mall located on Dorset Street in South Burlington, Vermont.
Four Vermont nonprofit organizations will receive an infusion of $2.3 million in capital to make loans and provide technical assistance to small businesses, day cares, nonprofit affordable housing developers and first time home buyers.
Vermont apple growers are not typically faint of heart. Each year, they self-confidently face freezes, droughts, heat, hail and pests - and that’s before the challenges of the fall harvest even begin. The wave of warm weather early this spring launched Vermont’s crop unusually early. By early May, Vermont orchards were in full bloom as freezing temperatures were forecasted.