Spirit, in his second year as the official Team USA Bear, will give Team USA Hoodie-Footies from PajamaGram to each American athlete — roughly 245 — so they can stay warm and rested when not skiing, sliding, snowboarding, and skating to the medal stand at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang in 2018.… Read More »
The Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center announced the addition of Carla Wuthrich of Hinesburg to its statewide team as a professional manufacturing and business growth advisor. Hosted by Vermont Technical College since 1995, the extension center operates as a non profit supporting Vermont manufacturers. Wuthrich joined the center in October after 25 years of experience working… Read More »
Through Dec. 31, New England Federal Credit Union’s 19th annual blanket drive is on at all of its locations to collect new and gently used blankets for area community organizations to distribute to help Vermonters in need. Blankets will go to the Committee on Temporary Shelter, Spectrum Youth & Family Services, Samaritan House, and other… Read More »
Dr. Trey Dobson was named president of the Vermont Medical Society during its 204th annual meeting recently in Woodstock, where the group also selected its next president to take the helm in 2018, and a vice president. Dobson is the medical director of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians and chief medical officer of Southwestern Vermont Health Care… Read More »
By Kevin O’Connor VTDigger.org Stacy Mitchell has seen all the headlines: Take “Vermont Last State in America to Get a Walmart.” Or “The Only State Capital Without a McDonald’s.” Or “Towns Have an Image, and They Say Dollar Stores Aren’t Part of It.” “Vermont,” she says, “has more small businesses per capita and the least… Read More »
By Morgan True VTDigger.org The retailer Target will open its first Vermont store on Dorset Street in October 2018, the company announced last Thursday. The Minneapolis-based chain said in a news release that it has signed a lease at the University Mall to open a 60,000-square-foot “small format store,” a model designed to serve communities close… Read More »
VTDIGGER.ORG Vermont’s unemployment rate in September dropped to 2.9 percent, the lowest rate in more than a decade. “The last time the unemployment rate was this low was below 3 percent was in December 2000,” Lindsay Kurrle, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Labor, said in a press release. “Needless to say, employers are… Read More »
VT Department of Labor recognizes workplace safety The Vermont Department of Labor and Gov. Phil Scott recognized several businesses last week for their commitment to providing safe, healthy workplaces and reducing injury and illness on the job. At the annual Vermont Safety and Health Council held in South Burlington, the Governor’s Awards for Outstanding Workplace… Read More »
Gov. Phil Scott will help officially unveil the Vermont Shires Connector, a new connection between New York City and Bennington and Manchester at a ceremony Monday in Manchester. The new service is a project of the Vermont Agency of Transportation, with its partners Premier Coach and Amtrak. The twice-daily shuttle launched in September connects the… Read More »
Burlington businessman, philanthropist, and now centenarian Antonio Pomerleau was celebrated last week at a dedication ceremony for the Pomerleau Community Waterfront Campus that will replace the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center on the Burlington waterfront. Pomerleau, who turned 100 last week, sported a hat with the message: “100 and still the best looking guy in… Read More »