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Vermont Business Magazine Camp Ta-Kum-Ta, KOOL 105, and the Vermont Lake Monsters have teamed up to present the second annual Ta-Kum-Ta Softball-a-thon at Centennial Field on September 23rd. This all-day event includes hours of softball, infinite innings, and free family fun, all to support local families impacted by childhood cancer.

Agency of Commerce and Community Development To get more money to flood damaged organizations, the state is increasing Business Emergency Gap Assistance Program (BEGAP) awards for most recipients, and the change will be retroactive.

Vermont Business Magazine Mavic, French manufacturer of innovative bicycle wheels and equipment, has opened an office in the cycling-rich community of Waterbury, Vermont. The facility will support sales and service in North America. Mavic will focus on reconnecting historic and past accounts as well as new customers to re-establish a robust IBD and OE network.

Vermont Business Magazine tru Independence, a $10.5 billion and growing national independent advisory platform for investment professionals, today announced its partnership with 44 North Capital, supporting the Vermont-based wirehouse breakaway. 44 North is a financial planning, wealth management and investment firm based in Burlington.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Public Utility Commission is actively seeking applications for membership on two advisory groups to inform the design of Vermont’s potential Clean Heat Standard program.

Vermont Business Magazine The School Construction Aid Task Force will have its first working meeting this Friday, September 22 at 1 pm. The Task Force is made up of a range of subject matter experts and key stakeholders and was formed to consider re-establishing a direct state aid program for local school construction.

Vermont Business Magazine Family-owned company Lake Champlain Chocolates (LCC) has been a mainstay in the south end of Burlington since its founding in 1983 so it is only fitting that the Flagship Store at 750 Pine Street received a significant renovation and expansion to mark the company’s 40th year in business.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), today led the committee in marking up critical legislation to address the primary care crisis in America, including the major shortage of nurses, doctors, dentists, mental health professionals, and other important health care workers acro

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation’s Urban & Community Forestry Program (UCF) have announced nearly $500,000 is available through its grant program. UCF’s 2024 grants program is larger than ever before, thanks primarily to an allocation from the USDA Forest Service through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont are $3.81 per gallon, up 5 cents per gallon from last week, up 1 cent/g from a month ago and up 5 cents/g from the same time last year ($3.76/g). The lowest price in the state is $3.59/g in Troy while the highest was $3.99/g in Wolcott.

Vermont Business Magazine A new report from the non-profit Energy Action Network (EAN) finds that Vermont has made the least progress of any state in the Northeast toward the Paris Climate Accord emissions reduction commitment made by the US and is not on track to meet its own state legal obligations by 2025 and 2030 under the Global Warming Solutions Act.

Vermont Business Magazine Lake Champlain Maritime Museum has announced a donation that it says will further the study and appreciation of regional maritime history: The museum is donating its replica 1862-class sailing canal schooner Lois McClure to the Canal Society of New York, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the state's historic