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Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food & Markets Are you interested in the prices paid at farmers markets across Vermont? Whether you are a consumer or producer, it's important to be informed. Each week the Agency of Agriculture produces a report highlighting prices of more than 50 vegetables, fruits, meat, and eggs, from markets across the state.

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Vermont Business Magazine Casella Waste Systems, Inc (Nasdaq: CWST), a regional solid waste, recycling, and resource management services company, announced that it completed the acquisition of the Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland collection, transfer, and recycling operations of GFL Environmental Inc. (“GFL”) on June 30, 2023.

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Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont have risen to $3.59 per gallon, up 0.9 cents per gallon from last week. The lowest price in the state yesterday was $3.37/g while the highest was $3.73/g, a difference of 36.0 cents per gallon. The national average price of gasoline has fallen 4.1 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.50/g today. 

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Vermont Business Magazine The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Region 1 Office is announcing a grant competition for an “Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center” (EJ TCTAC) to help New England communities and other environmental justice stakeholders access federal technical assistance and resources to address environmental and energy j

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation, along with several other states, reached a settlement with Lear Capital regarding unregistered securities activity and misleading marketing.

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Vermont Business Magazine Over 100 attendees gathered together on Thursday, June 22nd for Windham & Windsor Housing Trust’s Annual Meeting and 35th anniversary celebration.

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Vermont Business Magazine The U.S Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) estimated 172 thousand acres of corn planted for all purposes in New England for 2023, down 1% from last year’s acreage of 173 thousand acres. Vermont's production is unchanged and it leads all states in corn and hay production.

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by Aubrey Weaver, Community News Service Deepfakes — fake images and videos made with machine-learning technology that can realistically depict people’s faces  — have made headlines in recent years for tricking people and even the news in a lot of relatively harmless ways, such as a viral image of Pope Francis sporting a Rihanna-esque puffer coat.

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Northeastern Vermont Development Association Governor Scott signed the HOME Act into law on June 5th. This legislation marks a strong compromise between housing and environmental advocates who worked with the Administration to find a path forward for housing policy reform.

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Vermont Business Magazine NuHarbor Security, trusted managed security provider in Colchester, has announced the winner of its recent Natural Language Processing (NLP) hackathon. ”The Polyglot Project” was created to spur interest and innovation in the challenges posed by the differing outputs and alerts created by cybersecurity tools.

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by Joyce Marcel Popular, some say inspirational — and very tall — Thomas A Dee got into the field of hospital administration when academia barely recognized it as a profession. By the time he was 26, he was running two small hospitals in upstate New York.