Duguay hired for key Vermont Chamber post

Nine months ago, Karen Duguay was promoting and implementing strategies to improve the economic health of downtown Middlebury. She’s now performing that job on a much bigger scale, as senior director of programming for the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

Karen Duguay has spent the past decade supporting, promoting and celebrating businesses in downtown Middlebury. She’s now ready to carry out that same mission for the entire county.

Karen Duguay has helmed the BMP for more than 10 years. The Partnership is the entity responsible for building community, assisting downtown businesses, organizing events, and marketing Middlebury.

Now that the tunnel project is done, one can say the efforts of the citizens’ group Neighbors, Together were anything but modest.

This week’s writers are Julie Basol of the Vergennes Partnership, Ian Albinson of Bristol Core, and Karen Duguay of Better Middlebury Partnership. Addison County residents,  The following letter was sent on Sept. 2 to the Vermont Senate Committee on Econo … (read more)