Healthy Living Market and Café is thrilled to announce that Chef Michael Daley has joined the South Burlington location’s Culinary Team. Chef Daley will work with Healthy Living’s growing team of culinary talent to bring the legacy brand’s new HL Fresh line to life. Daley comes to Healthy Living after a lengthy career in the restaurant industry, having led both Michelin-starred and AAA Five Diamond kitchens.

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group, long recognized as a top 50 Property and Casualty insurer in the US, has recently elected Premila Peters, President of Data Innovations of Colchester, Vermont, to the company’s Board of Directors.

Since 2013, Ms. Peters has been responsible for leading Data Innovations (DI), a global software company serving 6000+ hospitals in 185+ countries, through its commercial and business transformation. In this timeframe, the company has more than doubled revenues, modernized technology and expanded their footprint in four continents.

The Vermont Community Foundation is pleased to announce that Kate McCarthy has joined our Grants and Community Investments team as a program officer.

Vermont Independent Media today announced that its community newspaper, The Commons, won 10 prizes in the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s 2021 Better Newspaper Competition, in divisions for weekly newspapers with a circulation greater than 6,000.

The awards for the newspaper, which covers Brattleboro and the surrounding towns and villages in Windham County, Vermont, included one first prize for Spot News Story for Randolph T. Holhut and Olga Peters, “Cash-strapped Retreat pursues shutdown after rebuke by state agency.”