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Vermont Business Magazine Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) today addressed the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners (NECPUC) in Stowe, Vermont and called for continued support for clean energy and decarbonization efforts nationwide.
Vermont Business Magazine PurposeEnergy is proud to announce its commitment to build a new biogas processing plant in partnership with Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame today announced the 2023 inductees. For more than 20 years, over 95 contributors of Vermont agricultural have been celebrated with the Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame honor. A celebratory luncheon is scheduled during the Champlain Valley Fair on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, at 12pm.
Vermont Business Magazine Widespread frost across Vermont last week is suspected to have severely damaged thousands of acres of crops in Vermont and across the region. Temperatures dropped below freezing in many areas for a sustained time causing early spring crops to freeze.
Vermont State Police On May 22nd, 2023, at approximately 1645 hours, Troopers from the Vermont State Police – St Albans Barracks were notified of a missing juvenile. Investigation revealed that the juvenile was last seen the night of Thursday May 18th, before she went missing from her residence in the night.
Vermont Business Magazine Yesterday, the Speaker of the House, Jill Krowinski, delivered the 2024 fiscal year state budget to Governor Scott to be signed, weeks ahead of the traditional timeline. Today, she called upon the governor to sign the budget to ensure funds allocated to assist the most vulnerable Vermonters are available as soon as possible.
The Vermont Progressive Party stands against the current iteration of the state budget for Fiscal Year 2024. A core principle of our platform is that housing is a human right.
by John McClaughry One interest group fared extraordinarily well during the just-completed legislative session. That’s the interest group comprised of Representatives and Senators. Unlike other interest groups, who have to lobby legislators for the benefits they want, the legislators themselves get to vote on their own benefits. This was an opportunity not to be missed.
Vermont Business Magazine May is National Foster Care Month. It is a time to acknowledge the role of foster and kinship care providers statewide. In Vermont, more than 1,000 children and youth are currently provided foster care. Most will successfully reunify with their birth families. When that is not possible, permanency is sought – often through adoption.
Vermont Business Magazine The American Red Cross asks people to book a time to give blood or platelets now to address a recent drop in donation appointments that could lead to fewer transfusions for patients in the weeks ahead. Type O blood donors are especially needed to ensure a strong blood supply.
by Amy Olson, Dartmouth College The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated fear of childbirth among pregnant people in the US, according to a new Dartmouth study. The researchers were particularly interested in understanding, from a US context, which factors predict childbirth fear and how the pandemic has affected this fear and birth outcomes.
Vermont Business Magazine First diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease at the age of 14, William Celley of Bennington always knew that dialysis was in his future. And for the past eight years, he faithfully made his way to the Renal Dialysis Unit at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) three times a week to receive lifesaving 3- to 3-1/2-hour dialysis treatments.