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President Ty Handy of Vermont Tech is pleased to announce that one of the signature business/labor/education partnership programs delivered at the college -- The Verizon/CWA/IBEW Next Step Program -- won the Stevie Award® for Best Human Resource Team in the 2007 American Business Awards on June 11, 2007.
Recent figures published by the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing estimate that visitors made a total of 13.4 million trips to Vermont in 2005. Thirty-seven percent of those visitors came during the summer. Many of these summer visitors take advantage of Vermont's outstanding outdoor camping facilities.
With the creation of SMS | Host, a property management system that integrates guest services, John Springer-Miller changed the face of hospitality technology by creating a guest-centric approach to software.
ADManager Plus is a comprehensive web-based Active Directory Management software that supports IT Administrator and helpdesk technicians to effectively control and manage their entire windows based IT network.
Marta Pauer-Tursi announces the launch of Borealis PR, a full-service public relations agency specializing in social marketing, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and public affairs. Ms Pauer-Tursi is a seasoned communications specialist with ten years of corporate communications experience at a Fortune 100 company.
Keeping your money safe is one of the biggest challenges these days. The modern era has offered plastic money and electronic dealings as brilliant solutions for safe cash handling. Credit card and merchant account services allow a user to make safe financial communications in comparison to handling cash, where there is danger of theft or accidental loss of money.
Urban Rhino wins a Bronze Telly at the 28th Annual Telly Awards for a video they produced for Mansfield Heliflight. The video was produced in HD last summer and is featured on Mansfield Heliflight's web page. It was shot, edited by Nathan Beaman and produced by Lars Gange of Black Bullet. The video can be seen online at
Northern Power's parent company in trouble
Rutland, VT: Seven Rutland-area organizations have been selected to receive financial grants to help improve the health of their employees through their worksite wellness programs.
People's United Financial to acquire Chittenden Corp for $1.9B
People's United Financial, Inc (Nasdaq: PBCT), of Bridgeport, CT, the holding
company for People's United Bank, announced June 27, 2007, a definitive
agreement to acquire Chittenden Corporation (NYSE: CHZ), based in Burlington, in
a stock and cash transaction valued at $1.9 billion. Consummation of the
Sale of Local Golf Course Complete: New Ownership Shares Plans
MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE
Montpelier, VT . . . The Department of Labor reminds Vermont employers and employees that on
June 7, 2007 Senate bill S.27 became law. Effective July 1, 2007 this bill will change the definition
of a "service or tipped" employee. Currently the law defines service or tipped employees as ... all