Topic: Vermont
Burton Snowboards, the snowboard innovator whose name has been synonymous with Vermont since the dawn of the sport, is ending its manufacturing operations in the state, moving 43 jobs to Austria, the company announced Tuesday. Burton Manufacturing Center, in South Burlington, which manufactured a portion of the ...
Maybe you don't really want to lie. Most people don't. But the pressure is on, you're given a tough question, you're sweating, and a silence falls between you and the interviewer after they ask the fateful question. You panic, and the lie just comes out. It's just a little lie, and it covered something that ...
Big Tobacco suffered a big loss as Vermont Superior Court Judge Dennis Pearson found that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s advertising claims of a “reduced risk” cigarette were deceptive and misleading, in violation of Vermont’s Consumer Fraud Act and a 1998 settlement agreement and court order. “This is a huge decision ...
Two Vermont utilities signed an agreement Thursday on a 26-year deal to buy power from Canadian provincial utility Hydro-Quebec, replacing contracts that expire beginning in 2012. The deal is among Green Mountain Power Corp., Central Vermont Public Service Corp. and Montreal-based Hydro-Quebec, which already provides about one-third of Vermont's electricity ...
