Journalist Sarah Mearhoff joins Associated General Contractors

Sarah Mearhoff, former chief politics reporter at VTDigger, has joined the Associated General Contractors of Vermont as director of advocacy and communications. She will begin full time on Jan. 2, ahead of Vermont’s 2025 legislative session, which begins the following week.

In her new role, Mearhoff will represent the interests of Vermont’s construction workers and developers in Montpelier. She will also serve as a key contact between AGC-VT members and lawmakers, delivering members’ messages from the job site to the Statehouse.

Gifford welcomes family nurse practitioner Melanie Clark

Family nurse practitioner Melanie Clark has joined Gifford Health Care, serving on the primary care team at Chelsea Health Center.

Clark previously worked as a family nurse practitioner at AFC Urgent Care in Beverly, Massachusetts; as a family nurse practitioner at Cambridge Family Health Center in Cambridge, New York; as a registered nurse at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington; and as a clinical nurse instructor at Southern Vermont College in Bennington.