CASTLETON, Vermont, May 23 (TNSconf) -- Castleton University issued the following news: Castleton University will host the sixth annual Early Childhood Educators Institute on July 26, 28, and August 2, 2022. The event will be held synchronously online with an optional on-campus session and celebration on August 4. The program's live, interactive Zoom meetings allow early educators to participate from a location convenient to them. The Early Childhood Educators Institute is for anyone providing  more

MIDDLEBURY, Vermont, May 26 (TNSfund) -- Middlebury College issued the following news: The Middlebury Board of Trustees, at its annual meeting May 12-14, approved a fiscal year 2023 operating budget with both revenues and expenses of $296 million. Members of the board also agreed to allocate $8.2 million of the operating budget toward increasing compensation for faculty and staff beginning July 1, the start of fiscal year 2023. The allocation--a 7 percent increase over last year's total salary   more

MIDDLEBURY, Vermont, May 26 (TNSawa) -- Middlebury College issued the following news: Two Middlebury seniors and four recent graduates have been offered Fulbright awards for the 2022-2023 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The Middlebury finalists include one grant for graduate study and research and five English teaching assistantships. Additionally, one current senior has been selected as an alternate for a Fulbright English teaching   more

MIDDLEBURY, Vermont, May 28 (TNSawa) -- Middlebury College issued the following news: In April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold, Middlebury Professors Caitlin Knowles Myers and Sarah Stroup helped launch a new initiative called Faculty at Home, a webinar series that allowed them to share the work of Middlebury faculty with virtual audiences around the world. For their work in providing this engaging connection, Myers and Stroup have been awarded the first Hugh W. Marlow, Class of   more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, May 25 -- Vermont Attorney General Thomas J. Donovan issued the following news release: Attorney General T.J. Donovan announced a settlement with Pfizer Inc. following an investigation into the company's business and advertising practices for its copayment coupon program. As part of the program, consumers were told that they would "pay no more than" certain amounts out-of-pocket for specific drugs - but ended up spending far more at the pharmacy. As part of the settlement,   more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, May 26 -- Vermont Attorney General Thomas J. Donovan issued the following news release on May 24, 2022: Attorney General T.J. Donovan today announced a multistate settlement with Ford Motor Company regarding claims that Ford falsely advertised the real-world fuel economy of certain model years of C-Max hybrids and the payload capacity of certain Super Duty pick-up trucks. Attorney General Donovan, who co-led the investigation into Ford along with the attorneys general of Or  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, May 25 (TNSper) -- Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, issued the following news release on May 24, 2022: Governor Phil Scott today announced that Commissioner Michael Schirling will be leaving his role leading the Vermont Department of Public Safety (DPS) next month. Schirling will take a senior role at the University of Vermont, following his departure as commissioner on June 18. Deputy Commissioner Jennifer Morrison will serve as interim commissioner. Commissioner Schirling wa  more

BOLTON, Vermont, May 24 -- Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Scott and Congressman Peter Welch joined the Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) and community leaders to announce over $16 million in broadband construction grants that will bring fiber broadband speeds to residents of Bolton and several towns in the Northeast Kingdom (NEK). Standing in front of two bucket trucks installing fiber on a stretch of Stage Road in Bolton, leaders congratula  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, May 25 (TNStalk) -- Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, D-Vermont, issued the following statement on May 24, 2022: * * * This evening, Lt. Governor Molly Gray released the following statement on the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas: "Once again, I am heartbroken by a senseless act of gun violence. Nineteen people - eighteen children and a teacher - have been murdered while at school in Uvalde, Texas. It calls to mind the Sandy Hook shooting. Nearly ten years have pas  more