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At its June 4 meeting the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees approved a resolution renaming the addition to Vermont Technical College s Morrill Hall Robert G. Clarke Hall, in honor of retiring VSC Chancellor and former VTC President Robert G. Clarke. VTC President Ty Handy recommended naming the addition to Morrill Hall on the Randolph campus Robert G.
Community College of Vermont (CCV) Provost Joyce M Judy was appointed Interim President of the College by the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees at its June 4 meeting. Judy begins her one-year interim term on July 1, succeeding Tim Donovan, who leaves CCV to become Chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges system.
RidgeviewTel, a full-service broadband communications company, is helping rural Vermont residents map their broadband needs at the Vermont Dairy Festival in Enosburg Falls this weekend, June 5 through 7.
Despite receiving funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, state fiscal conditions deteriorated for nearly every state during fiscal 2009, according to the National Governors Association (NGA) and the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO). The nationwide shortfall is expected to be $200 billion over the next three years.
The Vermont Legislature returned to work Wednesday before finally adjourning the special session by passing a number of changes notably identified by Governor Douglas as problematic.
US Representative Peter Welch called on Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki Thursday morning to reconsider the outsourcing of pension claims and inquiry call functions from the White River Junction VA Benefits Office. Recently, the VA has moved to centralize Veterans Benefits Administration functions to out-of-state call centers and processing centers.
Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz, along with Jason Karlawish, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania; and Charles Sabatino, Director of the American Bar Association s Commission on Law and Aging, released the results of a study of Vermont s mobile polling pilot project.
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The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) on June 10 will begin reconstructing Springfield’s Community Center Bridge, which is located at the intersection of South Street, Clinton Street and Route 11 (Main Street) at the south end of Springfield village. Eastbound traffic, as a result, will be detoured away from the bridge.
Conair Corporation and Keurig, Incorporated, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR), today announced entering into a licensing and distribution agreement that will enable Conair to develop, market and sell, in the United States and Canada, single-cup coffeemakers under the Cuisinart brand. The launch is currently planned for spring 2010.
The Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich has received a NASA grant worth $492,704. NASA has selected 13 informal education providers to share $6.9 million in grants through the Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums. The Montshire program is called, The Dynamic Earth: You Have to See It to Believe It!
City Market customers helped to donate 530lbs of food to the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf at the first of three Fill a Truck for Hunger food drives. The Vermont Foodbank was on hand at the Co-op to collect food from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Monday, June 1. A variety of non-perishable food items were collected and donated to the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf.