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Vermont Chef Returns Home to Cultivate Culinary Roots
The Newport Daily Express - Vermont
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WEST CHARLESTON - For generations, the land beneath her feet has nourished her family. Now, Alyssa LaFrance returned to those deep roots, quite literally, to nourish her community with a new meal service and catering business, Rustic Roots Kitchen...
Vermont Wood Works Council launches statewide internship program
Brattleboro Reformer - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
The Vermont Wood Works Council (VWWC) recently launched a new internship program, a hands-on initiative designed to connect emerging woodworkers with professional makers, manufacturers, and artisans across the state. This program aims to...
Is Vermont’s aging workforce straining the employee-owned business model?
WCAX - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
WILLISTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The bankruptcy of a Vermont garden center business is raising questions about the employee-owned business model. Burlington-based Gardener’s Supply Company recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in part, because of...
New laws to take effect in Vermont on July 1: What to expect
NBC5 - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
Several new laws will be taking effect in Vermont on July 1, with the legislation affecting everything from school safety to what books you will see on the shelves at your local library.Here is a breakdown of the seven new laws taking effect...
Ethics complaint targets 2 Vermont senators with private school ties
Vermont Public Radio
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June 30, 2025
A South Royalton resident has filed an ethics complaint against two state senators, arguing their role in education reform negotiations crossed a line because of their ties to independent schools. Geo Honigford, a member of the advocacy group...
Made in Vermont: CHC Vans
WCAX - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vans have taken on new life in recent years. Whether you’d like a mobile living space or a business on wheels, CHC Vans makes them all in Vermont. It’s a world of possibilities in one South Burlington garage. “These...
Federal judge’s order means Vermont Job Corps center stays open, for now
VTDigger - Vermont
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July 1, 2025
A sign welcoming new students to Northlands Job Corps Center in Vergennes. Photo by Henry Fernandez/VTDigger A New York federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction last week that allows Job Corps centers, like the Northlands Job Corps...
Nationwide injunction halts cuts to medical research funding
Silver State Times - Nevada
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June 30, 2025
Attorney General Aaron D. Ford | Nevada Attorney General OfficeAttorney General Aaron D. Ford | Nevada Attorney General Office Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford, along with a coalition of 21 other attorneys general, has secured a nationwide...
M&T Realty Capital Provides $5M in Equity for Affordable Housing Redevelopment in Vermont
REBusinessOnline
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June 30, 2025
25ORANGE COUNTY, VT. — M&T Realty Capital Corp. has provided $5 million in equity for Chelsea Williamstown Apartments, an affordable housing redevelopment project in Vermont’s Orange County. The project involves the rehabilitation and adaptive...
Communities invest in regional economic development efforts
Brattleboro Reformer - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
Each year, Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies (SeVEDS) asks voters in the 27 Windham Region towns to invest in regional economic development efforts at the level of $3 per resident. This year, 21 communities, representing 82...
Vermont closes the books on fiscal year 2025, prepares for potential $9.1 billion budget in FY2026
NBC5 - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
The state of Vermont has closed the books on fiscal year 2025. As a new budget takes effect, state leaders are reflecting on last year’s spending and looking ahead to fiscal year 2026.Vermont’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. Adam...
RTX to sell Collins’ sensing and controls business to TransDigm
FlightGlobal
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Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney parent RTX has agreed to sell Simmonds Precision Products, a maker of aircraft fuel-sensing systems and other parts, to US aerospace firm TransDigm Group for $765 million. RTX says the deal, disclosed on 30...
Complaints allege Vermont senators with private school ties violated ethics rules during education bill negotiations
VTDigger - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
Sen. Scott Beck, R-Caledonia, left, and Sen. Seth Bongartz, D-Bennington, right, listen as Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, D-Brattleboro, speaks as House and Senate members of the education reform bill conference committee meet at the Statehouse in...
Vermont defends landmark climate law as Trump administration and oil industry sue
Environmental Health News
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June 30, 2025
Vermont is preparing for a drawn-out legal fight after President Trump’s Justice Department joined fossil fuel interests in suing to block the state’s new Climate Superfund law, which seeks to make oil companies pay for decades of greenhouse gas...
2024 H-1B petitions: Approvals for employers classified under Utilities industry across SC Vermont News publication area
SC Vermont News
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June 30, 2025
Ur Mendoza Jaddou, Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (left) and Jennifer B. Higgins, Deputy Director. | https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/organization/leadershipUr Mendoza Jaddou, Director of the U.S. Citizenship and...
The 1790s: fierce political fights
South Platte Sentinel - Colorado
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June 30, 2025
Last time in these pages, I wrote about the sharp division within George Washington’s Presidential administration, that between Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic-Republican Party....
Universities in every state care for congressional papers that document US political history − federal cuts put their work at risk
The Conversation
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June 30, 2025
In 1971, the president of Mississippi State University, Dr. William L. Giles, invited President Richard Nixon to attend the dedication of U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis’ papers to the university library’s archives. Nixon declined, but the Republican...
New Vermont laws for July 1 affect library books, bake sales and job ads
Vermont Public Radio
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June 30, 2025
Each year on the first day of July, a new slate of state laws kick in, timed to coincide with the start of the fiscal year. This latest batch of legislation makes financial aid accessible to undocumented students, requires salary ranges to be...
Opinion: Weaponizing antisemitism is dirty politics
City & State New York
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June 30, 2025
For those who’ve been on a media blackout, New York City’s Democrats last week overwhelmingly nominated a candidate who just happens to be Muslim and is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a left-wing branch of the Democratic...
Vermont golf pro and wife host 3rd challenge, to raise money for cancer programs
NBC5 - Vermont
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June 28, 2025
Erin King had a family history of breast cancer. Yet, her diagnosis in the fall of 2022 still came as a shock."My mom is a breast cancer survivor. My grandmother was diagnosed. But they were both diagnosed in their 70s. So, this was not...