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Dealer.com (www.dealer.com) today named Rick Gibbs as its new president. Gibbs co-founded the company in 1998 and has since held the position of CTO, shaping and directing Dealer.com's technological vision, while spearheading its emergence as the global leader in online marketing solutions for the automotive industry.

The Vermont Ski Areas Association announced at its annual meeting that Vermont s ski resorts recorded 4,125,082 skier visits for the 2009-10 season. This marked a 1.4 percent increase over the prior season s tally and tracked with the 5-year average.

For the week of June 5, 2010, there were 662 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance, a decrease of 177 from the week before. Altogether 10,365 new and continuing claims were filed, a decrease of 533 from a week ago and 4,574 fewer than a year earlier.

The federal government cancelled its controversial plan to take a portion of the Rainville family dairy farm to renovate a seventy year old US-Cananda border station.

The University of Vermont Alumni Association honored outstanding graduates at its annual reunion weekend celebration on Saturday, June 5, 2010. UVM President Daniel Mark Fogel presented the Alumni Achievement Award to Jan Blittersdorf, class of 1984.

The Patrick and Marcelle Leahy Center for Rural Students at Lyndon State College will hold a Vermont Education Summit at Lyndon Tuesday, June 18, from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm. Registration is free and is limited to 100. The Center was dedicated to Senator and Mrs Leahy at Lyndon s commencement on May 16, in recognition of the Senator s central role in securing the funding to establish the Center.

At its annual meeting in Maine on June 8, Secretary Roger Allbee of Vermont was unanimously elected President of the Northeast Association of the State Departments of Agriculture.

US Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced Tuesday that a $24 billion fund to assist states with their Medicaid populations will be included in a jobs bill package now pending action by the full Senate.

Average retail gasoline prices in Vermont have fallen 4.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.81/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 0.2 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.73/g, according to gasoline price website VermontGasPrices.com.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has announced that $120,000 has been awarded to establish community gardens at 40 schools throughout Vermont.

With ever more science majors and a new Environmental Studies program, Saint Michael's College needed to expand its science laboratory space. The college learned last week that it was the recipient of a grant for $182,700 from the George I. Alden Trust of Worcester, Mass., which will enable the college to move forward quickly with renovations to the SMC Cheray Science Hall.

Governor James H Douglas and Secretary of State Deb Markowitz will host the opening of the renovated and expanded Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA) building in Middlesex on Thursday, June 10th at 1:30 p.m.