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The Southwestern Vermont Health Care Board of Trustees has named Thomas A Dee as the new Chief Executive Officer for the health system, which includes Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington. The board made the announcement in a series of meetings Wednesday with doctors and employees.
US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation that would make the Treasury Department identify and break up financial institutions that are “too big to fail.”
As part of Borders Group's ongoing strategy to right-size its Waldenbooks Specialty Retail segment and emerge with a smaller, more profitable mall chain in fiscal 2010, the retailer will close approximately 200 mall stores in January, leaving approximately 130 mall-based locations open. A list of mall stores expected to close is included below.
In a milestone victory resulting from years of work by the US organic community to address known fraud in the organic marketplace, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) has voted 12 to 1 for the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) to enforce the law for organic personal care just like they do for organic food.
The second quarter of 2009 has more states recording positive growth, according to e-forecasting.com. It was just last quarter where NO states had positive growth, and back to 2008Q4 only one state had recorded positive growth: Washington DC with 0.3% growth. In the second quarter of 2009, we see that 25 states recorded positive growth.
Green Mountain Children’s Museum (GMCM) announced today that it is withdrawing from the Moran redevelopment project on Burlington's waterfront.
The Vermont Chamber of Commerce recently returned from a very successful 12-day Trade Mission to the Far East with Governor Jim Douglas, officials from the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, and Vermont business executives.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation this morning closed Route 108 through Smugglers Notch. VTrans does not know yet if the road is closed for the winter. It will assess the roadway if/when the weather warms up to see if it can be reopened and inform the public at that time.
Businesses looking to land lucrative contracts with state and federal governments can get a free lesson next week without ever leaving their offices.
The third quarter of 2009 resulted in strong operating results for Stantec as gross revenue increased 10.5% to C$384.2 million and net revenue increased 6.1% to C$306.7 million compared to the third quarter of 2008. Gross margin increased from 56.0% to 56.5% and cash from operating activities increased from C$54.6 million in the third quarter of 2008 to C$62.9 million in 2009.
NBT Bank Regional President Matt Durkee announced that Peter McCarthy has been hired as vice president and senior commercial banking relationship manager. In this position, McCarthy is responsible for developing and managing business relationships with the bank’s commercial customers in Vermont. He is based at the bank’s regional office at 150 Bank Street in Burlington.
On Wednesday, November 25, the day before Thanksgiving, Stratton Mountain resort will officially begin its 2009-10 ski and snowboard season. The first snowfall fell on the summit in mid-October and the snow guns began operating on Tuesday.