Executive Director Sarah Carpenter announced Robert Purcell of Georgia, VT has joined Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) as Financial Analyst. Purcell brings vast accounting and analytical experience ranging from accounting positions at Wells Fargo to account management in the captive insurance industry. He also brings strong systems and process improvement skills.

Purcell holds a Masters in Public Administration earned at The University of Vermont and a B.A. in Business earned at The University of Colorado.

Dee Physical Therapy, with locations in South Burlington and Shelburne is pleased to announce that Richard Tremblay PT, DPT has joined their growing physical therapy staff.

Richard grew up in northern Vermont and graduated from San Francisco State University. He earned his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. Prior to his return with family to Vermont, he worked with the former Cleveland Browns orthopaedic surgeon and the current orthopaedic surgeon for the San Francisco Giants.

Vermont Technical College has appointsed Martha Trombley Oakes to the newly created post of Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement. Trombley Oakes, who is a native Vermonter, comes to Vermont Tech from National Life Group in Montpelier where she served as president and CEO of the National Life Group Charitable Foundation, Inc. and director of corporate and community relations for National Life Group. She also served in the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office under then Secretary Deb Markowitz and United States Congressman Thomas Allen’s Washington, DC Office.

Charles (Chuck) Pizer has joined Vermont Public Television, the statewide public television network, as community engagement director. He will develop partnerships with community organizations, educational groups and other agencies to enhance VPT’s reach and impact throughout the audience area.

For the past decade, VPT has worked to extend its services beyond the screen into the community, drawing on its own local productions and on PBS national programming for inspiration.

Local performers Jamie Polli, Tim Kavanagh, and Bill Moller have created Game Shows VT, marketing live game shows as a team-building tool for local companies and organizations. Polli hosted the game show "Survey Says!" for over nine years on public access Channel 15. Kavanagh hosted 100 episodes of the Champlain College collaborative "Late Night Saturday with Tim Kavanagh" on WCAX-TV Channel 3. The trio now takes their game shows on the road to perform "spoofs" tailored to suit the needs of any client, including using industry-specific content.

After nearly 30 years on the job – 22 of them as the Director of Bromley Mountain’s Ski and Snowboard School – Peter Robertson has decided to move on to other pursuits. Burleigh Sunflower, who has been Bromley’s Snowboard School Manager for the past seven years and the Snowboard Supervisor at Okemo’s Jackson Gore base area prior to that, has been named Bromley’s new Director of Snow Sports.

Judy Tarr Tartaglia recently appointed Dr. Sarah Swift as Director of Central Vermont Medical Center’s Hospitalist Program. She most recently served as an inpatient attending physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the division of Hospital Medicine. She was also on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Otter Creek Brewing Co, LLC of Middlebury, Vermont is excited to announce that Jim Lomax, formerly the head brewer at the Shed Brewery in Stowe, Vermont has joined the Otter Creek Brewing family. Jim will start on Monday, November 7.

On Monday, November 1, Otter Creek Brewing announced that it had reached an agreement with Ken and Kathleen Strong, the founders of the legendary Shed Restaurant in Stowe, VT- to acquire The Shed Brewery and The Shed brand family of ales. Jim Lomax becoming part of the Otter Creek Brewing team completes the continuity of the Shed brewing heritage.

Gifford Medical Center beloved family physician Dr. Ken Borie of Randolph has been chosen as nursing home Medical Director of the Year by the Vermont Health Care Association.

Dr. Borie received the honor at an Oct. 18 ceremony at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee. A doctor of osteopathic medicine at Gifford since 1980, Dr. Borie is the medical director at Rowan Court Health and Rehabilitation Center in Barre - a position he has held since August of 2010 with help from Kim Ladue, a Gifford nurse practitioner working directly at Rowan Court.