Engel & Völkers Okemo hires real estate advisor Fehrenbach

Engel & Völkers Okemo is delighted to announce that Kristen Fehrenbach has joined its growing team of real estate advisors. Fehrenbach brings more than twenty years of leadership experience in art education and hospitality across New England. A resident of Bellows Falls, she is a founding director of Popolo, a beloved farm-to-table restaurant that opened in 2012.

The Vermont Community Foundation welcomes Walsh

The Vermont Community Foundation has hired Molly Walsh as a Research and Insight Officer. Molly joins the Community Foundation after more than thirty years covering Vermont as a newspaper reporter, spending the majority of that time at The Burlington Free Press, and most recently working for five years at the weekly newspaper Seven Days. Her byline has appeared on news stories about affordable housing, childcare, water quality, climate change, racial justice, education equity, land use, and scores of other issues impacting the state.

‘Extraordinary Nurses’ awarded at NVRH

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH) nurses Melissa Blanchard and Jackie Osanitsch were honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses® for their compassionate care at the two latest DAISY award ceremonies, held on Thursday, May 6 and Friday, May 7. The two ceremonies, which are traditionally held on the units and attended by patients, colleagues and family members, were either live-streamed or later published on Facebook.

NVRH Hospital Auxiliary presents $9,500 in Scholastic Achievement Awards

On Friday, April 30, Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH) Auxiliary presented Scholastic Achievement Awards, which totaled $9,000, to six students. The awards were presented by Scholastic Achievement Award Committee Chair, Beulah McGinnis. The NVRH Auxiliary provides Scholastic Achievement Awards annually to both high school and adult students who are pursuing a career in healthcare.