Monteverdi Music School welcomes new music education coordinator

Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility(link is external) welcomed three new members to the organization’s board of directors. They are John Kim, graduate programs career adviser at the University of Vermont Grossman School of Business; Karen Lawson, co-owner and chief impact officer of Lawson’s Finest Liquids; and Kate Ogden, head of advocacy and movement building at Seventh Generation.

Civil litigator Margarita Warren has been elected as a director and shareholder at the Burlington law firm Dinse(link is external). Warren joined Dinse in 2019 following her tenure at a civil litigation defense firm representing clients in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and clerking for the Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, MA.

From left to right, Dan Jones, Devin Axelrod, and Andy Leach cut and split wood as part of efforts by the Jericho-based non-profit, Wood4Good, to provide free firewood for Vermonters in need. Wood4Good recently received a grant from the Vermont Electric Co-op’s Community Fund to help purchase a more productive log splitter. Photo courtesy Wood4Good.

Vermont Business Magazine ValleyNet announced today that they have transferred all of their staff and operating responsibilities to GWI Vermont in an undertaking that was years in the making. The recently formed GWI Vermont is a subsidiary of Biddeford Internet Corporation, d.b.a GWI. GWI, based out of Biddeford, Maine, founded...

Vermont State Police The Vermont State Police is seeking a fifth suspect in connection with the December killing of a man in St. Johnsbury. An arrest warrant has been issued for Danny Daniels, 30, of Philadelphia on charges of aiding in the commission of first-degree murder, aiding in the commission of assault and robbery with a weapon, and aiding in the commission of burglary. The charges arise from the fatal shooting of Israel Jimenez Lugo, 49, at the St. Johnsbury apartment house where he was living. The court ordered that Daniels be held without bail upon his arrest.

By Mike Donoghue, News Correspondent, Vermont Business Magazine A Bristol woman is facing 19 federal felony fraud and tax charges in connection with a more than $700,000 embezzlement from a family-owned wood-logging and wood-chipping company in Addison County, court records show. Jodi R. Lathrop, 53, of Rounds Road is charged...

Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont are up 8 cents in the last week to $3.54 per gallon today, according to GasBuddy(link is external). They're up 16 cents over the last month and are 15 cents higher than they were one year ago. The cheapest price is $3.19/g in Brattleboro and the highest is $3.89/g in Island Pond.