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Vermont Business Magazine KeyBank announces today that Business Banking Senior Vice President Joseph R. McGowan has been appointed Market President for Vermont.

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Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont today are $3.46 per gallon, according to GasBuddy, up 7 cents per gallon from last week. Prices are up 2 cents/g from a month ago and down 59 cents/g from a year ago. The lowest price in the state is $3.15/g in Middlebury, while the highest is $4.29/g in West Bridgewater.

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Vermont Business Magazine A ledger documenting the everyday activities of a Black woman living in a segregated neighborhood in Shreveport, Louisiana after World War II is driving research by the woman’s granddaughter – an academic fellow at Saint Michael’s College – and giving insight into how residents of these neighborhoods used education and literacy to work toward attaining

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Statement from Nicole Clegg, Acting CEO, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England “Planned Parenthood of Northern New England continues to offer medication abortion to our patients. We have no plans to change our protocol at the moment. The decision issued Wednesday night ignores more than a decade of scientific and medical advancements in abortion access."

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Vermont Business Magazine This week, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) joined 240 Members of Congress, led by Senators Schumer, Murray, Sanders, Durbin, and Blumenthal and Representatives Jeffries, Clark, Pallone, Nadler, Lee, and DeGette, in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA.

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Representative Becca Balint (D-Vermont) “Like many Vermonters and Americans, I’m stunned and furious by the news that a federal judge has ruled against the personal medical decisions that should be made between a patient and their doctor. This decision sets a dangerous precedent. Mifepristone is safe and effective and has been for more than two decades.

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Vermont Business Magazine The message from high school and college students about their future work expectations is loud and clear: they don’t want to work for someone else. In fact, 60% of teenagers are more interested in someday starting their own business rather than work in a traditional job, according to a new survey from Junior Achievement USA.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Rutland Regional Planning Commission (RRPC) has announced that the Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Conservation, Water Quality Division has recently awarded RRPC a contract to administer water quality improvement programs to the 11 Regional Planning Commissions (RPCs) in the State of Vermont.

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Vermont Business Magazine Emerge Vermont announced Wednesday that 18 of 24 women who have trained with the organization won their elections to local office during the Town Meeting Day 2023 election cycle. Fifteen of the candidates who ran are alums of the Signature Training program and eight have participated in other campaign trainings offered by Emerge Vermont.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Public has partnered with the award-winning PBS science series NOVA, a production of GBH, to produce and distribute multiplatform, climate-focused content as part of the series’ national Climate Across America initiative.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department has released the Vermont Master Angler Program 2022 Annual Report with 1,064 entries and 79 Master Angler Award recipients. Vermont’s wealth of waters and abundant fish populations provide many opportunities to experience outstanding fishing.

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Vermont Business Magazine This Earth Month, show the planet some love by keeping old, unwanted clothes out of the landfill.