Nurse Practitioner Robin Frantz recently joined University of Vermont Health Network - Central Vermont Medical Center Integrative Family Medicine Montpelier. The practice specializes in family medicine, using both conventional and alternative therapies for children and adults.
The owners of Phoenix Books, an independent bookstore with locations in Essex, Burlington and Rutland, have purchased Chester's Misty Valley Books. Michael DeSanto and Renee Reiner met with Lynne and Bill Reed - who bought the Chester landmark in 2001 - for the closing recently. "Twenty-one years ago," says Reiner, "as Mike and I embarked on this adventure, we considered buying Misty Valley Books from the original owners, Dwight Currie and Michael Kohlmann. So it feels like we've come full circle. We are so delighted to have Misty Valley as part of our Phoenix family!"
At its 2016 annual dinner on May 12th, the Lake Champlain Islands Economic Development Corporation awarded the Bullis Family Farm the Business of the Year award and David C. Carter the 2016 Community Service award. The event was held at Shore Acres Inn & Restaurant in North Hero.
University of Vermont College of Medicine Dean Frederick C. Morin III, M.D., and University of Vermont Medical Group President and CEO Claude Deschamps, M.D., have announced the appointment of Mazen A. Maktabi, M.B.B.Ch., as chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and health care service chief of anesthesiology at the UVM Medical Center, effective August 1, 2016.
SymQuest Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., recently announced the addition of Joel Henderson and Robert Loehmann to its Professional Services Team. Henderson and Loehmann join SymQuest as Systems Engineers.
Twinstate Technologies®, a Unified Communications and Collaboration, Cybersecurity and IT, and Building and Infrastructure solutions provider, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named CEO Devi Momot, CISSP®, GSLC®, GISP®, to its prestigious 2016 Women of the Channel list. The women executives who comprise this annual list span the IT channel, representing vendors, distributors,solution providers and other organizations that figure prominently in the channel ecosystem.
Mark Hamelin has joined VHB as senior landscape architect/land planner in the firm’s South Burlington, Vermont office. Hamelin will provide nationally-recognized design experience to VHB’s growing land planning and design practice in Vermont. He will bolster the firm’s ability to serve clients through the full project lifecycle from initial planning and visioning through final design and construction.
Raymond Lanza-Weil has joined the Vermont Community Loan Fund (VCLF), a nonprofit, mission-driven alternative lender and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), as Director of Business Programs. Lanza-Weil comes to the Loan Fund with extensive experience in both the nonprofit and commercial lending sectors.
Getting his start underwriting consumer loans at a community bank in California, Lanza-Weil spent a decade underwriting business loans for US Bank in Portland, Oregon before transitioning to nonprofits.
Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS), Vermont’s second largest community mental-health agency, announced today that it has elected SallyAnn Silfies to its Board of Directors. The agency will look to Silfies for unique perspectives based on her decade of service as an HCRS employee.
Silfies worked for 10 years in the agency’s Children, Youth, and Families program, from which she retired in 2013. She currently serves as Pastor of the Greater Hartford United Church of Christ in Hartford, Vermont.
Grace Cottage Hospital announces the appointment of two new board members, Ed Druke of Newfane to the Grace Cottage Hospital Board of Trustees, and Suzanne Welch of Grafton, to the Grace Cottage Foundation Board. Druke is no stranger to Grace Cottage; he was born there, as were his two sons. After working at Northeast Well Drilling and then at Tri-State Automotive, Druke accepted a job at WW Building Supply, which has locations in Newfane and in Wilmington. Together with his wife Terri, Druke purchased the business in 2005.
