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Vermont Business Magazine In recognition of Careers in Construction Month, Vermont Works for Women (VWW) has announced the 2024 schedule of their free trades training program for women and gender-expansive individuals ages 16+.
Vermont Business Magazine Have you ever tasted a nearly 100-year-old spirit? A century may have once seemed impossible to consume in one snifter. But now — compliments of an innovative spirits maverick — you can finally mix a cocktail with time itself.
Vermont Business Magazine Smugglers’ Notch Distillery is expanding once again!
Public Assets Institute The Covid pandemic shaped Vermonters’ commuting habits. According to new U.S. Census data, nearly 15,000 fewer workers commuted daily in 2022 than did so before the pandemic. Almost 80 percent of those pre-pandemic commuters drove alone. The Census data also show nearly 56,000 Vermonters working from home last year, up from nearly 23,000 in 2019.
Vermont Business Magazine MVP Health Care (MVP) and The University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN) today announced that their Medicare Advantage Plan, called UVM Health Advantage, will include new benefits in 2024 tailorable to each customer’s health needs.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM) are teaming up in a cooperative effort with Vermont hunters to search harvested deer for ticks this Fall. Volunteers at multiple southern Vermont check stations will be collecting any ticks found on deer and bringing them back to the state lab
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s Clean Water Board is seeking public input on the State Fiscal Year 2025 Clean Water Budget by November 20, 2023.
Vermont Business Magazine A new chapter in the University of Vermont’s fulfillment of its land-grant mission began today with the UVM Board of Trustees’ unanimous approval of the naming of the Patrick Leahy Building along with the Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships headquartered there.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Public Board of Directors announced today that Scott Finn, President and CEO, is stepping down from the organization at the end of this year following nearly six cumulative years first with Vermont Public Radio and now Vermont Public, after its 2021 merger with Vermont PBS.
by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine Vermont's unemployment rate rose one-tenth to 1.9% in September, as the number of unemployed edged up (+3.1%). The Vermont Department of Labor released the seasonally adjusted data today. Vermont still has the second lowest rate in the nation. Maryland is lowest at 1.6% and Nevada is highest at 5.4%.
Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General Charity Clark today announced a $75,000 settlement to resolve claims by the State of Vermont against Thomas Tremonte for civil timber trespass and unlawful mischief on State Park land.
by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders Dear Fellow Vermonter: Mahatma Gandhi: “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” There have been five wars fought between Israel and its neighbors in the last fifteen years.