The National Life Group named the Vermont Foodbank as the sole recipient of the 2025 National Life Group Do Good Fest®. The announcement came alongside a $29,674 donation raised through the company’s Share the Good program, which matches associate donations to charities.
Do Good Fest, an annual event hosted by National Life Group, will take place on July 12 on the company’s back lawn in Montpelier. This year’s festival will feature music from national and regional acts, food trucks, a nonprofit village, and its signature fireworks. The Vermont Foodbank will be the sole beneficiary of this year’s festival, which aims to raise awareness for its work combating food insecurity in the community.
The 2025 Do Good Fest lineup of national and regional acts will be announced in mid-April, when the high school musician contest, Beats for Good, will also be announced.
Ian Kennedy of Barre has made the Dean’s List at Wentworth Institute of Technology for the Fall 2024 semester.
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The following students have been named to the Dean’s List for the 2024 fall semester at the University of New England. Dean’s List students have attained a grade point average of 3.3 or better out of a possible 4.0 at the end of the semester: Kacie Audet and Claire Isabelle of Barre; Arabella Betit of East Calais; Payton Gariboldi and Kestrel Weyant of East Montpelier; Kailey Dunn-Peterson, Annabelle Gascoyne, and Kaitlyn Moyer of Montpelier; Natalie Higgins, Eden Morris, and Nicholas Smit of Northfield; Erin Elwell of Warren; Ayden Parrish of Waterbury.
Many Vermonters are eligible to receive thousands of dollars in tax credits from the government — even if they earned little or no income last year — but might not know it.
Through the Vermont Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Vermonters can keep their hard-earned money in their pockets. A tax credit reduces the total amount of taxes you owe. These two tax credits are refundable, meaning if they exceed your tax bill, you get the extra amount as a refund. Even if you don’t owe taxes, you can still receive the full credit.
The Earned Income Tax Credit refunds individuals up to $632 if they don’t have children living with them, or up to $7,830 for families raising children at home. An individual with children under six also gets $1,000 per child with the Vermont Child Tax Credit. Additionally, any family with children that receives the Vermont EITC is automatically income-eligible for 3SquaresVT, meaning it may be easier to enroll in the program and receive monthly benefits to buy groceries.
All Vermont residents, regardless of citizenship status, are eligible for these credits. Individuals just need to file taxes, even if they do not have a social security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. To claim the refunds, people will need to file a tax return even if they do not owe taxes.
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