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The Shires hosts a mosaic of entrepreneurs, artists and service professionals. You’ ll find doctors, dentists, accountants, attorneys, physiotherapists, engineers, teachers, and more providing expertise in their fields throughout our seventeen communities. Along with bustling trade and commerce, the region is rich in educational opportunities for students of all ages. We’ re home to excellent early childhood and elementary programs, nationally recognized secondary schools, and several fine institutions of higher education, including renowned Bennington College, not to mention stimulating programs aimed at adults.
We offer the region’ s only Magnet health care center, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, in partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital. Our creative economy embraces the visual and performing arts, film and media, design, and specialty food and drink, while a
growing culture of entrepreneurship adds its own vitality to the region.
We’ re home to start-ups and longestablished businesses alike, LLCs, local and national businesses, and organizations that promote economic growth. You’ ll find active young professionals groups, business incubators, co-working spaces, and access to Vermont-focused venture capital firms just over three hours away in Boston and New York. There is support here to help you succeed.
From cutting-edge 3D designers and solar installers to timber framers and machinists, The Shires blends Vermont tradition with modern tools. An innovative, resourceful, can-do attitude prevails, whether the doers are our craft brewers and artisans or those involved in our expanding base in the green technology and composite industries. If you have skills, we have opportunities. This is a perfect place to find-- or create – a meaningful job and raise a family.
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