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Although the Covid-19 pandemic has officially been declared over, restaurants everywhere continue to struggle, hit by inflation-driven food and beverage prices and a chronic shortage of workers.
The majority of employees of the Church Street shop were in favor of unionizing, organizers said at a press conference on Tuesday.
One economics professor noted that if sales are not increasing year over year by at least 5%, they are losing ground to inflation, which means people are spending less.
The Agency of Natural Resources’ decision came after the resort provided data asserting its positive effects on traffic during the 2022-2023 ski season.
A startup based at UVM, Verde Technologies, is working on a promising technology, known as thin film, to capture solar power in a much more efficient way than existing solar panels.
At farms across the state, the effect of the freeze ripples out past the edges of the frozen fruitlets into the lives of the workers and consumers who depend on them.
More than 200 more residential units could soon be built in South Burlington’s City Center under plans proposed by Snyder-Braverman, a Shelburne-based residential development company with a large presence in the city, who has proposed building three mixed-use buildings off Garden Street.
Lawyers representing Lamoille Housing Partnership, the nonprofit that purchased the Forest Hill property in partnership with Lamoille Community House, which plans to oversee its operations, have joined the town’s lawyers in defending the zoning designation.
The project is likely the first of its kind in Franklin County.
The same ownership group that constructed the Hilton Home2 Suites hotel in the Finney Crossing neighborhood in 2020 is proposing a new four-story hotel just a stone’s throw to the east. Once constructed, the two hotels would be about a football field’s length apart.
