Login
Skip to content
Home

Category: businessSyndicate content

Hannaford bags store at new Brandon plaza

Posted on May 3, 2012 |
By Lee Kahrs



BRANDON — The Hannaford supermarket chain has pulled out of the beleaguered Brandon Plaza project, citing economic changes and the lengthy permitting process.

Developer Bill McCabe had been counting on the store to anchor his long-delayed shopping center project at the intersection of Route 7 and Nickerson Road. From its corporate headquarters in Scarborough, Maine, Hannaford officials cited a change in the economic climate since the project entered the local permitting process in 2009.

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Businesses in Bristol see spring reshuffling

Posted on April 26, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



almosthomeowners1999.jpg

BRISTOL — As the weather is warming up, so too is the Bristol business scene.

Among the many recent developments in the county’s second largest town are an ownership change at the Almost Home Market on North Street, a new ice cream shop set to move in on Main Street and new landlords for the old Bristol High School building, which houses a number of prominent businesses.

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Whiskey distillery pitched for Middlebury location

Posted on April 26, 2012 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — People seeking architectural software services at the Friday Group LLC’s headquarters at 88 Mainelli Road will soon be in store for a gastronomic bonus.

The 6,000-square-foot building will soon be home to the Champlain Valley Creamery, makers of award-winning organic cream cheese. And that cheese company could soon be joined by a whiskey distillery, the plans for which the Friday Group LLC President Lars Hubbard recently submitted to the Middlebury Development Review Board (DRB).

full story

Cash mob to hit Bristol businesses

Posted on April 19, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — Watch out Bristol businesses, you’re about to get mobbed.

Cash mobbed that is.

Planned by a loose organization known as Cash Mob Vermont, a group of unknown size will descend upon the gateway to the Green Mountains this Saturday afternoon to patronize local businesses. Organizers from Cash Mob Vermont said that at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, anyone from anywhere can meet on the Bristol green to partake in the mobbing. The only thing you need to bring is cash, at least $20 to be precise.

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Excitement, suds brewing at new Middlebury beer school

Posted on April 12, 2012 |
By John Flowers



brewers0442.jpg

MIDDLEBURY — For two decades, Salisbury residents Steve Parkes and Christine McKeever-Parkes had dreamed of owning and operating their own small brewery.

That dream is now becoming reality.

Workers on Tuesday were finishing installation of 10 gleaming stainless steel tanks and related conduits that will soon be producing 450-gallon batches of what will be the couple’s signature “Sunshine and Hoppiness” beer at Drop-In Brewing Company at 610 Route 7 South, former home of Dundon Plumbing & Heating.

full story

Low snowfall, warm temps make history

Posted on April 5, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



ADDISON COUNTY — Once upon a time, March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb, but not this year. This past March came in like a lamb and went out like a hot tamale, throwing local residents, businesses and some wildlife for a loop. And the string of 70- and 80-degree days late in March followed an unusually warm and dry winter.

How to sum up the winter of 2011-2012?

“Unprecedented.”

full story

Jerrod Rushton joins ownership of Middlebury Fitness Center

Posted on March 29, 2012 |
By Angelo Lynn



middfitness.jpg

MIDDLEBURY — An opportunity to become a partial owner of a business in the town of his dreams in the industry of his choice came together for Jerrod Rushton as he is set to take over two-thirds ownership of the Middlebury Fitness Center on April 1.

Rushton is buying his two-thirds share from Rob Alberts and Sarah Raunecker, who co-founded the fitness center back in 1997 with co-owner Robert Falta. For his part, Falta had originally started with the Busy Bodies and Power Flex fitness center in Bristol in 1987.

full story

Vermonters make new skis

Posted on March 29, 2012 |
By Christian Woodard



MIDDLEBURY — “Vermont Born. Vermont Bred. Vermont Shred.”

That’s the slogan for Worth Mountain Designs LLC, a new Vermont company that designs customizable skis for Eastern skiers.

The company is co-owned by three Vermonters, Jason Duquette-Hoffman of Middlebury, Adrian Kostrubiak of Norwich and Dalton Harben of Cambridge. According to Duquette-Hoffman, all three are avid backcountry skiers who saw a business opportunity within their shared passion.

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Weight-loss business aims for next level

Posted on March 29, 2012 |
By John Flowers



vtrim5819.jpg

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury weight-loss business Vtrim has widened its net and is lining up clients in the national health care, military and education sectors.

Vtrim was originally developed through the University of Vermont’s division of continuing education. Vtrim bills itself as a gimmick-free, research-based program that dispenses individualized weight-loss information to participants through classes and on-line counseling from trained facilitators.

full story

Slaughterhouse proposed for Middlebury

Posted on March 22, 2012 |
By John Flowers



slaughterhouse.jpg

MIDDLEBURY — The owners of Ferrisburgh-based Vermont Livestock (VL) are seeking permission to expand their operation with a new, 11,442-square-foot slaughterhouse and meat-processing facility in Middlebury’s industrial park.

If endorsed by local, state and federal authorities, the new facility could be under construction by May and might be ready to handle animals by this October, according to Carl Cushing, owner/operator of VL.

full story

Addy Indy News Digest

The latest in Addison County news, every Monday and Thursday.

Connect with us

Comments