Green Mountain Children$B!G(Js Museum (GMCM) is pleased to announce the addition of Vicki Hayes to its Board of Directors.

Gallagher, Flynn & Company, LLP (GFC) is pleased to announce that Keith R. Phelan, CPA has accepted the position of Senior Accountant in the firm’s Tax Practice. Keith received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and his Masters of Business Administration from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Prior to joining GFC, Keith worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Boston, MA office.

Blanche Podhajski, Ph.D., President and Founder of the Stern Center for Language and Learning, is pleased to announce that Katie D. Halsey, of Shelburne, has joined the Board of Directors. Ms. Halsey, a personal trainer with over a decade experience serving community boards joined the Stern Center for Language and Learning in January. In addition to the Board of Directors Ms. Halsey was the chairperson for the Gene Richards Roast, a very successful benefit for the Stern Center for Language and Learning.

The Burlington law firm of Paul Frank + Collins P.C. announced that its litigation group has expanded and hired Cathy Foutz as a senior paralegal. Foutz is a graduate of the University of Vermont and The Institute for Paralegal Training in Philadelphia, PA. Foutz has worked as a litigation paralegal for over 30 years at law firms in Washington D.C., Boston, MA and Burlington.

Burlington attorneys David J. Sylvester and William J. Dodge, directors at Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, have assumed new leadership positions within the firm: Sylvester as chair of the Business Law Practice Group and Dodge as recruiting director. The announcement was made recently by the firm’s managing partner, Paul H. Ode, Jr.

Dr. Mark Novotny, interim vice president for SVMC Medical Group at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) recently became a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), the nation’s leading professional society for healthcare leaders.

Walsh & Monaghan, LLP announces Annie Dwight as a new associate to its law firm. Ms. Dwights practice will concentrate on environmental and land use law, in addition to general litigation.

Ms. Dwight joins the Burlington-based practice after spending the past year as law clerk to the Honorable Merideth Wright and the Honorable Thomas S. Durkin, Vermonts Environmental Court Judges.

Richard Feeley, President of Coburn & Feeley Property Management, Inc. of Burlington, recently announced that Theresa Heinrich has re-joined Coburn & Feeley as a part time Assistant Property Manager. Heinrich, who previously managed the Taft Farm Senior Living Community for Coburn & Feeley, will provide administrative support at properties managed by C&F.

Kinney Pike Insurance, a leading independent insurance agency in Vermont, announced its top producers for 2009, recognized for producing the most new business in both the commercial and personal insurance lines of business. Stephanie Cass has been honored with the 2009 Barwood Sales Achievement Award for personal lines insurance. Adam Osha has been honored with the 2009 Dorsey Award, awarded to the commercial insurance Account Executive producing the top sales. Osha has been recognized with this acclaimed honor for five consecutive years at Kinney Pike.