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Vermont Business Magazine State Treasurer Beth Pearce today announced the names of twenty Vermont students who won this year’s prize drawing for the Treasurer’s Office’s Reading is an Investment financial education program. The winners were drawn from 2,419 K-6 students who completed all steps of the financial literacy curriculum, entitling them to the drawing for one of twenty $250 college savings accounts.
“We’re incredibly proud of all our Vermont students who persevered through a challenging year of school closures and distance learning to take part in the Reading is an Investment program,” said Treasurer Beth Pearce. “We’re also grateful to the educators who spotlighted financial education in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, when many demands competed for classroom time. We’re thrilled so many students completed all the program requirements and built these critical life skills. These lessons build a strong foundation for a l
After a rough year and a half because of the pandemic, the ocean is calling people back to the beach. Kia and Isiah Cadwell came down to Wrightsville Beach from Durham on Friday, NBC affiliate WRAL reported. Sign up for our Newsletters Click the video player above to watch headlines from WXII 12 News. "We are going to get some seafood, hang out, just enjoy the day," Kia Cadwell told WRAL. Emily Jones drove down from Virginia Beach with her.
LEBANON The playoff run for the Lebanon High boys tennis team got off to a flawless start on Thursday afternoon when the Raiders dropped just two games in a 9-0 sweep of Kingswood to open NHIAA Division II postseason play at the CCBA courts.Mason.
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This announcement by the newly-elected California Service Employee International Union president has raised some eyebrows:
The new president-elect of California’s largest state employee union said Tuesday that the influential organization won’t back Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort to fend off a likely recall election this fall.
Richard Louis Brown said anger over union contract concessions last year during what proved to be an illusionary $54 billion state budget deficit helped fuel his victory over longtime Service Employees International Union Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker.
Brown said that anger extends to Newsom.
“He is going to need support from public sector unions to help him fight his recall,” Brown said in an interview with The Associated Press. “When I become president of Local 1000, he can look for somebody else to support him. He will not get any help from us. He’s on his own.”