For most of us, Ultimate Frisbee is a game we play at the beach, a music festival, or a local park. St. Johnsbury Academy teacher Josh Seamon pursues it more seriously. For the past six years Mr. Seamon has been coaching Boston Ultimate Disc Alliance’s (BUDA) Coed Ultimate Frisbee team. Each year he has taken the team to USA Ultimate’s Youth Club Championships, placing among the top three for the past five years. This year, Mr. Seamon and his team travelled to Blaine, Minnesota, where they won the USA Ultimate Mixed Division Championship.

The Vermont Land Trust has announced that they have hired Nick Richardson as the new Vice President for Enterprise and Finance. Over the past decade, VLT’s conservation tools have increasingly taken on more of an entrepreneurial design. For example, VLT’s work to help new farm enterprises gain affordable access to land requires both conservation planning and business analysis. Nick Richardson will bring his financial management and business operations skills to the VLT management team.

DuBois & King, Inc., consulting engineers announce that Jill Murphy, has joined the firm as a Staff Accountant. Mrs. Murphy recently served as Regional Director for the Central Vermont Building Bright Futures Council. Mrs. Murphy resides in Berlin and works out of the firm’s Randolph headquarters.

Founded in 1962, DuBois & King, is celebrating its fifty year anniversary as a Vermont based business. The firm provides multidiscipline engineering services from offices in Randolph, Williston and Springfield, Vermont as well as Bedford and Laconia, New Hampshire.

The Addison County Chamber of Commerce recognized local businesses, organizations, and individuals with its annual awards during the Chamber’s annual meeting held on September 6th at the Vergennes Opera House. Five awards were presented in front of a crowd of nearly 100 attendees which included Chamber members and local business people. In addition to the award presentations, the Chamber membership voted on a new board of directors.

The Vermont Land Trust also announced today the appointment of Marc Mihaly of Montpelier and Elena Gustavson of Craftsbury to their Board of Trustees.

DuBois & King, Inc., consulting engineers announce that Sawyer Sutton has joined their marketing team. Mr. Sutton graduated from Clarkson University with a Bachelor of Science in Communications. Mr. Sutton served as a journalist at the Stowe Reporter and as a visual information specialist at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. Mr. Sutton resides in Stowe and works out of the firm’s Randolph headquarters.

Travel Leaders- Child Travel/Albany Travel is pleased to announce the recent hire of Shana Marshall to provide corporate travel services to its business travelers. “We are very excited to have Shana join our team”, states Ted Child, president and owner of Child Travel/Albany Travel. “Our corporate business continues to grow and we are adding staff to keep up with the increased number of businesses we serve”.

maurices, a leading national specialty store for savvy, fashion-conscious customers with a 20-something attitude, has named Barbara Dutile as Store Manager. Dutile is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the store, including sales performance, visual presentation, and personnel recruitment and training.

Ledyard National Bank is pleased to announce that Kevin Kober has joined the bank as its Senior Vice President and Chief Retail Banking Officer. He will be responsible for managing Ledyard’s 7 banking offices and building stronger relationships with its retail clients.

Kevin has over 27 years of banking experience. He served as a Mortgage Broker and Branch Manager before being promoted to Senior Vice President and Manager of Retail Banking at The Connecticut Bank & Trust. In addition to CBT, he has worked at TD Banknorth and Fleet Bank.