VCRD Press/News
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Middlebury to offer free Wi-Fi MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) - The town of Middlebury will soon offer free wireless internet. Money in the town budget along with funding from the Vermont Council on Rural Development, has... read more... |
02/21/2012 WCAX |
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Letter to the editor: Support Working Lands bill Audrey Famette of Montpelier, submitted her letter to the editor of the Bridge. Click here to... read more... |
02/21/2012 Self Published |
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Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Investment Bill Committee Vote Expected House Agriculture Committee Expected to Vote Bill Out Tuesday read more... |
02/21/2012 Press Release |
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Letter to the editor: League of Women Voters 02/20/12 ~ Support working lands bill. The League of Women Voters of Vermont supports the Working Lands Enterprise Investment Bill (H.496/S.246). The League recognizes that some land-use... read more... |
02/20/2012 Rutland Herald |
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Letter to the editor: Shelburne News Shelburne resident, Nancy Wayne Jaffe, writes in support of the Working Lands Enterprise Investment bill. ... read more... |
02/16/2012 Shelburne News |
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Letter to the editor: Protecting our resources Ruth Wallman, Executive Director of the Champlain Islands Chamber of Commerce, wrote a letter to the St. Albans Messenger in support of the Working Land Enterprise bill.... read more... |
02/09/2012 St. Albans Messenger |
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Vermont Ag Agency says jobs bill investments create big dividends When the 2011 Jobs Bill was passed by the Legislature last year, over $500,000 was earmarked for Agricultural investments. The Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets estimates 100 jobs will be... read more... |
02/16/2012 Vermontbiz.com |
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VPR Commentator Series ~ Labun Jordan: Cyber Love (Host) When social networks are something you have online, and side-by-side texting replaces conversation, it seems as if there’s little hope for personal communications in the modern age.... read more... |
02/14/2012 Vermont Public Radio |
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Bob Foster Commentary: Working landscapes bill holds hope for Vt Our heritage is our working landscape. Agriculture and forestry are the backbone of our working landscape. Vermont is a small state and has limited resources. Therefore we need to use them wisely... read more... |
02/07/2012 VtDigger.org |
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Bill bolsters ag, forest and food processing MONTPELIER — Vermont lawmakers are working on legislation that aims to bolster Vermont’s economy while retaining the hallmarks of its rural landscape. The main focus in both the... read more... |
02/06/2012 Addison Independent |
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Working the land Editorial by David Moats, Rutland Herald/Times-Argus, 2/5/2012 ~ Vermonters from one end of the state to the other, of all political persuasions and demographic groups, rank the vitality and... read more... |
02/05/2012 Rutland Herald |
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Working landscape MONTPELIER — “I dip therefore I yam” is a motto that belongs to Lisa Johnson of Norwich, who testified recently about a niche product, Yummy Yams, she is producing from a crop... read more... |
02/01/2012 Self Published |
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Leaving RutVegas: A blue-collar city reinvents itself — and refutes its reputation “Let’s talk about RutVegas.” Jim Sabataso is sitting at a small table in Café Terra, “Rutland’s best coffee shop” — and only one, he admits.... read more... |
02/01/2012 Seven Days |
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Vermont wood products industry releases '2020 Vision' report VermontBiz.com, 1/30/2012 ~ The Vermont Wood Products Marketing Council has released a new ten year strategic plan entitled, “A 2020 Vision for the Vermont Wood Products Sector,”... read more... |
01/30/2012 Vermontbiz.com |
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Audio: Mark Johnson Show - Reps Stevens, Taylor, working landscape Representatives Will Stevens and Tess Taylor are 2 of the sponsors of the Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Investment Bill.... read more... |
01/27/2012 WDEV |
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Audio: Equal Time Radio ~ Working Landscape Legislation Host Carl Etnier talks with Dan Barlow, State House lobbyist for Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, who reported on testimony before the House Agriculture Committee on the bill to value... read more... |
01/25/2012 WDEV |
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Vermont's Digital Development Starts on the Front Porch ...e-Vermont, a consortium of seven different organizations, has come together to improve the economic outlook of rural Vermont through technology, while at the same time preserving what’s... read more... |
01/23/2012 e-Digital Communities |
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Video -- WCAX You Can Quote me: Vermont's Working Landscape, 1/22/2012 January 22, 2012 -- Paul Costello and Rep. Will Stevens, I-Shoreham, join Darren Perron and Keith McGilvery to discuss Vermont's working landscape. ...read more... |
01/22/2012 WCAX |
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Press Release: Legislative Panel Hears Strong Support for Working Lands Bill MONTPELIER, VT – Vermont Rural Jobs Bill Draws a Crowd: A legislative panel holding a public hearing on the Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Investment bill found a statehouse room packed to... read more... |
01/19/2012 Press Release |
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‘This is a bold initiative’ Roger Allbee, former ag. sec’y ST. ALBANS — Two Franklin County legislators from opposite sides of the political aisle have joined forces in a bid to improve the development of agricultural and forestry products and... read more... |
01/15/2012 St. Albans Messenger |
