WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has a cooperative agreement with Vermont under the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI). Through this agreement, USDA and Vermont are working together to offer over $2 million in competitive grant funding for projects designed to build re  more

NEW YORK, April 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on April 19, 2024, entitled "Vermont Job Openings and Labor Turnover - February 2024": * * * Vermont had 17,000 job openings in February 2024, compared to 18,000 openings in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the job openings rate in Vermont was 5.2 percent in   more

WILLISTON, Vermont, April 18 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Starting this summer, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VTDEC), with EPA oversight, will break ground on a remedial action for the cleanup of groundwater at the Commerce Street Plume Superfund Site in Williston, Vermont. The goal of this work is to cleanup groundwater to meet VTDEC drinking water requirements and prevent the spread of trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination.   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that yesterday, Lawrence Jackson, also known as "Boo-Bee", 53, of Rutland, Vermont was convicted in U.S. District Court in Burlington of seven drug and gun charges after a seven-day jury trial. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss ordered that Jackson remain in  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, April 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Shant Soghomonian (also known as Michael Soghomonian), 35, previously of Northridge, California with using fire to damage the building at One Church Street - a building used in interstate commerce. He will be arraigned  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, April 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that yesterday, Lawrence Jackson, also known as "Boo-Bee", 53, of Rutland, Vermont was convicted in U.S. District Court in Burlington of seven drug and gun charges after a seven-day jury trial. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss ordered that Jackson remain in jail pending sentencing, wh  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, April 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont announced that on April 19, 2024, Paul Bateman, 47, a citizen of the United Kingdom who previously resided in Laos, was sentenced in the United States District Court following his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, including the opiates Tapentadol and Tramadol, as well as other   more