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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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%.

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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.

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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.

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Vermont State Police Investigators have recovered the Sig Sauer patrol rifle that was stolen early Tuesday morning from a Vermont State Police cruiser. Acting on information provided by the public, on Thursday morning, Oct. 19, 2023, VSP troopers from the Shaftsbury Barracks and game wardens from the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife began searching pull-offs along U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Timothy Gabriel, 29, who most recently has been living in the Rutland area, appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington on a charge that he possessed a firearm as a convicted felon. U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine An innovative Device Characterization Lab made possible by a partnership between The University of Vermont’s College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) and GlobalFoundries (GF) was unveiled Thursday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on campus.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont State University (VTSU) recently announced that it will expand its nursing program and facilities to enroll more students. The Williston and Johnson campuses of VTSU will undergo substantial renovation to expand the nursing education center at Williston and create a new nursing education center at Johnson.