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Archive for: March, 2010

South Burlington High School Bomb Threat

South Burlington High School Bomb Threat

South Burlington, Vt.- March 31, 2010 – A bomb threat at South Burlington High School prompted officials to evacuate the buildings at 9 a.m. this morning to nearby FH Tuttle Middle School after a note was found at 8:50 a.m.on the first floor of the school Wednesday.
All high school students and staff were evacuated to [...]

Green Mountain Beverage Hires For Social Media Management

Green Mountain Beverage Hires For Social Media Management

Middlebury, Vt. – March 30, 2010 – Bret Williams, President and CEO of Green Mountain Beverage, producers of Woodchuck Draft Cider in Middlebury, Vermont, announced it has hired Jen O’Hurley as Marketing Manager of Consumer Relations.
O’Hurley is a recent graduate in Marketing from Arizona State University where she worked at Woodchuck Cider events. The company says O’Hurley will [...]

Illegal Waste Tire Collection Operation Violates Solid Waste and Act 250 Rules

Illegal Waste Tire Collection Operation Violates Solid Waste and Act 250 Rules

Waterbury, Vt. – March 15, 2010 - The Department of Environmental Conservation’s Compliance and Enforcement Division today announced that it has formally settled environmental violations involving Robert Colaceci. Colaceci operated an unpermitted waste tire collection and storage facility. In operating the unpermitted facility Colaceci violated solid waste management and Act 250 rules. The settlement includes a [...]

Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding at Stratton March 15-21, 2010

Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding at Stratton March 15-21, 2010

 
Stratton, Vt. – March 15-21, 2010 – The 28th annual Burton U.S. Open snowboarding championship event gets underway this week at Stratton Mountain in Stratton, Vt.  hosting thousands of fans and many of the world’s top snowboarders for a weekend of slopestyle, rail jam and halfpipe competitions. The Open is the first U.S. event since [...]

UVM Men’s Basketball is Heading to the Big Dance

UVM Men’s Basketball is Heading to the Big Dance

Cats Top BU in 83-70 Crowd Thriller at Patrick Gym
Burlington, Vt. – March 13, 2010  – Behind a monster performance from the Reggie Lewis Most Outstanding Player Marqus Blakely (Metuchen, N.J.), the Vermont men’s basketball team topped Boston University 83-70 in front of a sold-out Patrick Gym on Saturday afternoon to win the 2010 America [...]

UVM Women’s Basketball Earns Second Straight America East Title

UVM Women’s Basketball Earns Second Straight America East Title

West Hartford, Ct. – March 13, 2010 -Vermont held off a furious second half rally by No. 19/21 Hartford after building an 18-point halftime lead. They went on to post a 55-50 victory over the Hawks at Chase Family Arena and win thier second consecutive America East title. The Catamounts also earn an automatic bid to [...]

Symposium on Government Honors Kunin’s State Leadership

Symposium on Government Honors Kunin’s State Leadership

Burlington, Vt. – March 2, 2010 – University of Vermont President Daniel Fogel introduced former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin at the opening of the symposium on government held in the Dudley Davis Center Tuesday morning.
Fogel commended Kunin for her contributions as Governor during 1985-1991, which he said are visible today “in our Vermont schools, in [...]

March 2 – Symposium Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Kunin’s First Gubernatorial Inauguration

March 2 – Symposium Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Kunin’s First Gubernatorial Inauguration

Burlington, Vt. – March 2, 2010 - The University of Vermont hosts a symposium today at UVM’s Dudley H. Davis Center celebrating the 25th anniversary of former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin’s first inauguration. Such former Kunin cabinet members as Jonathon Lash, president of the Washington,D.C.-based World Resources Institute, and Richard Mills, commissioner of education for New York [...]

Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar To Speak Saturday March 6

Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar To Speak Saturday March 6

Burlington, Vt. – February 28, 2010 – City Market, Onion River Co-op presents a lively discussion with world renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar on Saturday, March 6, 2010,  from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Society on Pearl Street.
Land stewardship, habitat protection and sustainable cultivation practices are of primary importance to the conservation [...]

Men’s Hoops Closes Out Regular Season With a Win Over Binghamton on Senior Day

Men’s Hoops Closes Out Regular Season With a Win Over Binghamton on Senior Day

Burlington, Vt. – March 2, 2010 – Four Catamounts reached double figures led by 17 from senior Marqus Blakely (Metuchen, N.J.) as the Vermont men’s basketball team earned a 78-69 victory over visiting Binghamton in the regular season finale for both squads on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 28, 2010. The Cats improve to 22-9 overall and [...]

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