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WEST DOVER — At the seventh annual Southern Vermont Economic Summit, business and community leaders looked at ways to create a strong future in the region.
Press Release March 1, 2023 Brattleboro Savings & Loan Exiting Cannabis Banking BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Savings & Loan has announced that it is withdrawing from offering banking services to Vermont’s cannabis industry. BS&L was one of the first Vermont financial institutions to join the State’s program to offer banking services to this sector. However, the regulatory requirements of serving businesses that the federal government still considers illegal have proven too costly at BS&L’s strategic scale. The federal government still classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 controlled substa...
Jun. 4—OTTUMWA — Grace Ottumwa is taking advantage of its new space to help feed the community. Members of the merged Methodist congregation have planted a 100-foot by 100-foot plot on the church's land just north of Ottumwa to plant a community garden in an effort to address food insecurity. While volunteer Deb Stephenson called the size of the plot ambitious for a first run, she said the ...