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Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont as of Sunday were $3.56 per gallon, up 8.2 cents per gallon from last week's $3.48/g, according to GasBuddy. The lowest price in the state yesterday was $3.35/g while the highest was $3.69/g, a difference of 34.0 cents per gallon.

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Vermont State Police On Saturday, at approximately 3:38 pm, troopers from the Williston Barracks responded to the area of Route 7, south of Church Hill Road in the town of Charlotte, for a report of a crash involving a motorcycle and a passenger car.

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Vermont Business Magazine The National Life Group Do Good Fest will be headlined by the Plain White T’s, a two-time Grammy nominated American Rock Band, the company recently announced. It also revealed Vermont favorite, All Night Boogie Band, will lead the line-up, with other bands to be announced soon.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Medical Society, the Vermont Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics Vermont Chapter, and the Vermont Psychiatric Association, applaud the Vermont Legislature for their recent passage of two “shield laws,” S. 37 and H.89.

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Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food & Markets The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund's business management coaching program just launched Business Sense, a six-module training series for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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Vermont State Police Following a three-day manhunt, police on Sunday evening, April 23, 2023, Vermont State Police arrested Henry Lovell in Hyde Park. The arrest came at about 6:35 p.m. after the Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department received a tip from a member of the public who saw a man matching Lovell’s physical and clothing description walking along a road in Hyde Park.

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by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Health reported April 19, 2023, that COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations were largely unchanged from the previous week. COVID-19 activity remains in the "Low" range, according to the VDH. Hospitalizations held at 17 last week (the lowest since last fall was 22 at the end of March).

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Vermont Business Magazine Ledyard Financial Group, Inc (ticker symbol LFGP), the holding company for Ledyard National Bank with a branch in Vermont, has announced financial results for Q1 2023 and declared a regular quarterly dividend.

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by Abby Carroll, Community News Service A bill to help small farmers diversify their products with a new grant program crossed over from the House to the Senate, but not without a significant cut in the money behind it.

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Vermont Business Magazine Scott Administration officials will be visiting Caledonia County on Monday to continue their county tour to hear from community leaders about their unique infrastructure needs and to discuss the many funding opportunities available to them via federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021.

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Vermont Business Magazine Registration is open and the keynote speaker is set for the 33rd Annual Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) Conference, “Here and Now,” which will be held on May 11th at Hula, the award-winning lakeside coworking and innovation campus in Burlington.

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Vermont Business Magazine This weekly report from the Vermont Agency of Transportation is a list of planned construction activities that will have traffic impacts on state highways throughout Vermont for the week of April 24, 2023. Please remember to drive safely in all work zones. Lives depend on it.