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Vermont Business Magazine On June 15, Starbucks workers at the Essex Junction location announced their union organizing campaign. If successful, they will be the second Starbucks store in the state of Vermont to unionize. The first Starbucks store in the state to organize a union was the Shelburne Road location in July of 2022.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Farmed Animal Advocacy Clinic (FAAC) has filed a complaint on behalf of the Humane Society of the United States and the Center for Biological Diversity with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against JBS S.A.
Vermont Business Magazine Author Mariana Budjeryn has been selected for the 2024 William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award for her work Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine.
Vermont Business Magazine The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont has announced that a federal grand jury has indicted Bounthavong Sonthikoummane, 42, and Ashlyn Arcouette, 32, both of White River Junction, Vermont, on fraud charges stemming from four loans they obtained on behalf of businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.
Vermont Business Magazine Two Vermont Army National Guard Soldiers took part in the Brazilian Basic Mountaineering Course in April. Sgt. 1st Class David Girr and Staff Sgt. Cyran Willis successfully graduated from the challenging program held in Sao Joao Del Rei, Brazil.
SBA Vermont Join the Office of the Vermont State Treasurer and the Pride & Prosperity Network on Thursday, June 20th at 4PM at VSAC in Winooski, VT for Queerness in Business - a community conversation for LGBTQIA2S+ Vermonters and allies.
Vermont Business Magazine The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Robert McLane, 36, of Webster, Vermont, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge of mail fraud.
Vermont Business Magazine Hundreds of business-minded community members gathered last Thursday at Hula to support LaunchVT’s 2024 cohort at Demo Night, the program’s annual pitch competition and celebration of entrepreneurship. The 2024 cohort presented their businesses to the audience and a panel of investor judges, including Chuck Bush, Myla Lai-Goldman, and Sivan Cotel.
Vermont Business Magazine Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, toured the Estey Organ Complex in Brattleboro last Friday to discuss an ongoing multi-phase revitalization project to renovate the historic building and create affordable housing.
Vermont Business Magazine Options for hospital transformation and health system revitalization will be presented at in-person community meetings across Vermont’s 14 hospital regions throughout the month of July. Feedback and input will be solicited from community members.
by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine For the week ending June 12, the Vermont Department of Health reported that there were no COVID-19 related deaths last week.
Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Transit (GMT) and Burlington Electric Department (BED), joined by Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, and federal, state, and local leaders, today announced the addition of five electric-powered buses to the GMT fleet. The new E-buses, supported by BED incentives, began carrying passengers last month.