Auto Review: More Than Your Average Crossover
Back in the day, Volvo built wagons shaped like a brick but powered by turbo. It seems appropriate that the automaker fortifies its heritage with a jacked up turbo wagon that seems sculpted for the wind as much for the road. Channeling the larger XC70, the midsize V60 Cross Country wagon flaunts 19-inch alloys, plastic wheel-well extensions and aluminum trimming the ground affects and lower facias. Colors were apparently chosen from a...
6% Increase OK’d For Vt. Blue Cross
Montpelier — The Green Mountain Care Board has given its approval to a nearly 6 percent rate increase for individual customers of Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Board chairman Al Gobeille said the rate increase underscores the need to implement a payment reform system in Vermont. Blue Cross originally filed for an 8.6 percent increase but the board whittled this proposal down to a 5.9 percent increase. The increase is the weighted...
Co-op Staff Votes Down Labor Union
Lebanon — Workers at the Lebanon Co-op Food Store on Monday voted, 70-31, against organizing under a Massachusetts-based union, a n election brought on by a year’s worth of turmoil surrounding the firings of two employees. Of about 140 workers at the store , 122 full- and part-time personnel were eligible to vote, and 113 ballots were cast. “ (I’m) elated — we can be a family again,” Jayne Baker, a cashier at the Lebanon store, said...
Complementary Cross-Marketing as InnerAsia Trading Co., Pompanoosuc Mills Work Together
Hanover — Kesang Tashi, whose Khawachen store on Main Street in Hanover has been selling hand-woven Tibetan rugs, handbags and jewelery for 10 years, is closing shop and moving his business to Pompanoosuc Mills, where he is entering into a “cross marketing” venture with the East Thetford-based furniture maker. “We are getting away from being a retail-oriented business and going back to our roots as a designer, producer and marketer of...
