The Vermont National Guard announced that General Frank Grass, Chief of the National Guard Bureau spent Saturday May 2, 2015 with the soldiers and airmen of the Vermont National Guard.
The Vermont Army National Guard received General Grass at and his official party at the 158th Fighter Wing recently.
Steve and Deb Mayfield, owners of the Shelburne Country Store, today announced the acquisition of The Christmas Loft located in Shelburne.
Based in Jay, Vermont, The Christmas Loft is a privately held corporation that operates 3 retail locations in Shelburne, Vermont, as well as North Woodstock and North Conway New Hampshire. The purchase by the Mayfields includes just the Shelburne, Vermont location while The Christmas Loft will continue to operate the remaining New Hampshire locations as well as their office and warehouse in Jay, Vermont independently.
Andrew Hoak, PE, PG, has joined DuBois & King as a Manager of the firm’s Water Resources Department. Mr. Hoak is a hydrogeologist and an environmental engineer with 20 years of experience consulting on water quality, stormwater management, water and wastewater studies, and groundwater and soil remediation projects. Mr. Hoak lives in Jeffersonville and is based out of the firm’s Randolph office.
Four new members joined the ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, board of directors with terms effective April 1.
Sara Muyskens is former ECHO board chair and has been intimately involved since the organization's inception. Paul Sisson has also served on the board and is former planning and finance committee chair.
Tom Leavitt joined for the first time but has worked with ECHO professionally and has followed the organization’s growth. Scott Rossborough, new to the area, found ECHO to be in line with his goals after researching local nonprofits.
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced the 51st class of US Presidential Scholars, recognizing 141 high school seniors for their accomplishments in academics or the arts.
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin attended KidSafe Collaborative’s Annual Outstanding Service Awards and congratulated the honorees for their efforts to improve child safety and wellbeing, at a luncheon held April 16 at the Sheraton Burlington.
The 2015 Awards were presented to:
Press Forward PR announced the hire of Kathryn Flagg to the position of Sustainable Accounts Manager today. Flagg, a staff writer at the Vermont weekly Seven Days, will oversee press outreach and communication for Shacksbury Cider, a Shoreham, Vermont-based producer of dry, food-friendly ciders made with heirloom apples and traditional processes. In addition to her work for Shacksbury, Flagg will lend communications support for Press Forward’s sport, sustainability and wellness-related clients.
Dr. Andrew Erickson has joined Gifford Medical Center, adding a fourth provider to the hospital’s general surgery team. He most recently worked as a surgeon at a Mid Valley Hospital, a rural community hospital in Omak, Washington; and as a general and acute care surgeon at the Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, MD.
Michael Chilton, a senior microbiology major, and Colin Kamphuis, a sophomore political science and economics double-major, have been awarded prestigious Boren Scholarships. The David L. Boren Scholarship is a nationally competitive award that provides up to $20,000 for students to study a critical foreign language in a nontraditional country important to U.S. national security.
The Fourteenth Annual Rose Black Nursing Excellence Awards and the third annual Licensed Nursing Assistant Excellence Awards were recently presented to five University of Vermont Health Network-Central Vermont Medical Center nurses and licensed nursing assistants who exemplify the best aspects of nursing practice and consistently demonstrate excellent nursing care. Left to Right: Marlene Wurtzbacher RN (Waterbury Center resident), Kelly Welch RN (Duxbury resident), Margene Eldred LNA (Barre City resident), Kerry Abbott LNA (Washington resident) and Joan LaRose LPN (Orange resident).
