Vermont Mutual Insurance Group recently held its 36th annual meeting of the “25 Year Club”. Every year Vermont Mutual hosts a reception and dinner to honor those employees, both active and retired, who have given 25 or more years of service to the company.

A total of eighty guests were on hand to celebrate and recognize new and existing members of this esteemed club. This year the Club welcomed four new members: William M. Brooks, Paula Driscoll, Crystal Hill and Diane Wendel.

Vermont’s Original, LLC has announced Reid Greenberg as its new President. Greenberg, whose diverse career has ranged from leadership roles at eBay, Keurig Dr Pepper, and Seventh Generation was hired to accelerate the Bag Balm brand by leveraging new and current customers and building out a robust eCommerce business. Most recently, Greenberg was EVP at Kantar Consulting where he advised many of the largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the world on their eCommerce and retail strategies and emphasizing the notion of interconnected commerce as the foundation of growth.

Home Care Assistance of Greater Burlington, a leading provider of in-home care for seniors, is proud to welcome Bernadette Thompson as an additional Associate Client Care Manager. Bernadette came to Home Care Assistance because of a strong personal connection with our aging population. Both her mother and grandfather passed from Alzheimer’s and her brother Greg O’Brien (author On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s) suffers from early onset Alzheimer’s.

Attorneys Alan Sylvester and Michael Brow of the Burlington, Vermont law firm, Sylvester & Brow, have been recognized once again by @BestLawyers in The Best Lawyers in America 2019 edition in the fields of Personal Injury Litigation and Medical Malpractice Law (Plaintiffs). Alan has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 35 consecutive years, and Michael has been listed for the past 10 consecutive years in the field of Plaintiffs' Personal Injury. sylvesterbrow.com

MSK Attorneys is pleased to announce that Liam Murphy, Brian Sullivan, Catherine Dingle, Jeremy Farkas and Hans Huessy have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2019 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Liam Murphy and Jeremy Farkas were also both named Best Lawyers 2019 Lawyer of the Year in Burlington, Vermont in the categories of land use and zoning and related litigation. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey and has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence.

Northwestern Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) on Monday, August 13, seeing the first patients in the office’s Doctors Office Commons location. NMC celebrated with a brief ribbon cutting before patients began arriving early that morning. CEO Jill Berry Bowen welcomed the practice’s two new providers, Dr Kahren Aydinyan and audiologist Stephanie Maloney, AuD.

ENGVT, based in Richmond, Vermont, has hired two recent Clarkson University graduates, Karl Spooner and Tim Martin as Associate Engineers. “Tim and Karl are a perfect addition to our growing roster,” said Jerry Chabot, President of ENGVT. “Their skills and education add strength and synergy to our team. With such a noticeable growth in demand for mechanical engineers, and so many industries competing for them, we are happy to be a part of their career path and to be connected with their talent.”