John Davis, a Certified Public Accountant and resident of South Burlington, has been tapped by Gov. Peter Shumlin as the newest member of the Vermont Economic Progress Council. The Council is an 11 member board that authorizes job creation incentives and oversees the Tax Increment Financing District program and the Windham County Economic Development Program. Davis fills the remainder of a term vacated by the retirement of Nancy Port from the panel.

Toby Sadkin, MD, a family medicine physician practicing in St. Albans, is the recipient of the 2014 Physician Executive of the Year Award from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), a national association for medical practice executives and leaders.

Jvillage Network, a provider of synagogue websites and online membership solutions for Jewish communities, has hired Geoffrey Pizzutillo as lead web designer and developer.

Pizzutillo’s experience includes creative direction, design, and front-end development, with proficiencies in several languages including HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery, as well as in-depth knowledge of the Adobe suite, other design software, and popular content management systems including Drupal and Wordpress.

The Brattleboro Retreat will present the hospital’s 2014 Anna Marsh Award to Vermont State Representative Bill Lippert of Hinesburg at the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus event to be held on Saturday, November 1 at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro.

Woodstock Farmers’ Market’s owner Patrick Crowl was selected by his peers to join a national trade organization’s retailer council for a two-year term.

The Specialty Food Association recently announced the election of four members, which included Crowl, to its Retailer Network Committee.

Fran Bisselle, the head of the Maple Street School in Manchester, Vermont has been elected head of the Vermont Independent Schools Association (VISA). VISA represents Vermont’s community of 127 independent elementary and secondary schools. Independent schools educate eleven percent of all students attending kindergarten through grade 12 in Vermont. Bisselle has been head at Manchester’s Maple Street School since 2006. The school enrolls 105 students in grades kindergarten through eight. Previously she was a doctoral teaching fellow at the University of Vermont.

Wendy Briscoe has joined Davis & Hodgdon Associates CPAs as the receptionist. Wendy joins the Firm with 25 years of administrative and customer service experience primarily within the medical and insurance industries where her positions ranged from Human Resources to Office Management. She currently resides in Colchester, VT.