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by Dan Smith, President & CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation What if young men in America and Vermont attended college or continued their training at the same rate as the state’s young women? What if boys and men did not commit suicide or die from overdose at rates that are significantly higher than girls and women?

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The Vermont State Police is identifying the trooper involved in this morning’s car crash on Interstate 89 in Bethel as Cpl. Eric Vitali, a 19-year veteran of the state police. Cpl. Vitali is receiving treatment at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, for serious injuries. Initial investigative work by the Vermont State Police indicates Cpl.

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Vermont Business Magazine Girls on the Run Vermont’s registration for its spring program is now open statewide! GOTR is a physical activity-based, positive youth development program that inspires students in 3rd through 8th grade to be joyful, healthy, and confident.

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Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission On January 4th, TRORC unveiled its scholarship initiative for 2024 where we are offering $2,000 to ten graduating seniors in the Region.

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Vermont Business Magazine The best time to plan your winter at world-class destinations like Mount Snow, Okemo, and Stowe in Vermont, and at Vail Mountain, Whistler Blackcomb, Park City Mountain, and Breckenridge.  Epic Passes for the 2024/25 season went on sale March 5 – offering the lowest price of the year and the most benefits.

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Vermont Business Magazine As the Department of Vermont Health Access has previously reported, Change Healthcare, which operates Vermont's Medicaid pharmacy claims system, experienced a significant cyber security issue on February 21. Change Healthcare has confirmed that this issue is impacting pharmacies and providers across Vermont, New England, and the country.

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Vermont Business Magazine Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) took to the Senate Floor yesterday to call out Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s failure to deliver for rural America.

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Vermont Business Magazine The United States Attorney’s Office stated that Carleena Graham, 57, of Accokeek, Maryland, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to four years of probation following her guilty plea to a charge of wire fraud. As a condition of probation, Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey W.

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Vermont Business Magazine The recent announcement by Goddard College administrators that the campus would be shutting down for at least a year has alarmed many in the Goddard community.

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by Jordan Barbour, Community News Service A small train station turned contemporary art museum in Brattleboro brings the mysterious depths of the ocean to the blustery mountains of Vermont. In the Brattleboro Museum & Arts Center, floating octopi and as-yet-unnamed creatures of the deep hang from the sides and ceilings of a small room.

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Vermont Business Magazine The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on March 7, 2024, Quenton Dodson, 36, originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Geoffrey Crawford to a term of 96 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a four-year term of supervised release.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott and the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) today announced $13.3 million in Healthy Homes Initiative awards and $2.2 million in Three-acre Stormwater Initiative awards to help 46 manufactured housing communities (also known as mobile home parks) repair, replace, and upgrade water infrastructure.