Approximately $25 million in State of Vermont Citizen Bonds will be offered for sale on March 5. This offering is part of a larger bond sale that was scheduled for last October, but postponed shortly after Tropical Storm Irene caused widespread destruction in the state. The opportunity to purchase the general obligation bonds will be made available first to Vermont residents and businesses. Previous Vermont Citizen Bond offerings have sold out in a matter of hours. 

The Clark Group, a national environmental consulting and government affairs firm, with offices in Montpelier, VT and Washington, DC, announced today that it has been awarded a $34 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the EPA with technical, analytical and outreach assistance to the national ENERGY STAR® program in the Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial (CI&I) sectors. 

Statewide assessment results for Fall 2011 were released by the Vermont Department of Education today at a press conference held in Montpelier. The results are from the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) exams, given to Vermont public school students in grades three through eight and grade 11. Students are tested in Reading and Mathematics. Writing is assessed at grades 5, 8, and 11. Science is given in grades 4, 8 and 11 each spring.