MONTPELIER, Vermont, Oct. 27 -- Vermont Attorney General Susanne R. Young issued the following news release on Oct. 26, 2022: The Vermont Attorney General's Office has reached a settlement with a New Hampshire-based staffing agency that employed a temporary caregiver to multiple Vermont long-term care facilities despite knowing that the caregiver had financially exploited at least two older Vermonters while employed on the agency's watch. The settlement requires the staffing agency--Staffing So  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Oct. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont posted the following news: Americans love their meat. According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, Americans consume, on average, over 270 pounds of meat each year. The Johns Hopkins Center for A Livable Future reports that, over the last century, Americans have doubled their meat consumption. On an international scale, Americans are among the top meat consumers in the world, indulging in more than three t  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Oct. 27 -- Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, issued the following news release on Oct. 26, 2022: Governor Phil Scott and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced that nearly $30 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, appropriated for the village water and wastewater (VWWW) initiative, has now been committed to towns across the state. "Investing in water, sewer and stormwater initiatives is key to revitalizing communities and spurring economic  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Oct. 26 -- Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Scott, the Vermont Department of Labor (VDOL) and the McClure Foundation announced the release of Vermont's Most Promising Jobs, a list assembled by VDOL and McClure that includes more than 50 occupations expected to pay above the state median wage of $22.55/hour and have at least 500 openings over the next decade. "We have tens of thousands of good paying jobs available in Vermont, and  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Oct. 24 -- The Vermont Agency of Education posted the following news release: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) today released the nationwide performance results from the 2022 assessments in reading and mathematics. The NAEP is administered every two years to students in grades Four and Eight across the nation. This administration comes after the postponement of the 2021 NAEP due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While still navigating pandemic conditions, 202   more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Oct. 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: Keith Klepeis, Ph.D., professor of geology in the University of Vermont's Department of Geography and Geosciences, recently partnered with colleagues from the Vermont Geological Survey (part of the Department of Conservation), the State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh, and Middlebury College to lead 30 hydrogeologists to see a PFAS groundwater-contamination site beneath Rutland Airport. The t  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Oct. 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news on Oct. 25, 2022: The University of Vermont is part of a new regional collaboration to study the climate-related vulnerabilities of mobile home park communities. With funding announced today from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)'s Climate Adaptation Partnership's program, the project brings together researchers from the Universities of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, as well as  more