United Way of Northwest Vermont, an organization dedicated to improving lives and advancing the common good in Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties, has hired Nicole Clements and Megan Kastner Hinesburg as resource coordinators for Working Bridges, a program designed to help workers keep and grow stable employment.
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Scott Boardman, former chief operating officer at Hickok & Boardman Insurance Group, was elected to the board of directors at Union Mutual Fire Insurance and New England Guaranty Insurance at the companies’ annual meetings in March.
Laura Rice, former associate director at Women's Information Services, a New Hampshire-based nonprofit dedicated to ending gender-based violence, has been appointed executive director of the Children’s Literacy Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to inspire a love of reading and writing among low-income, at-risk and rural children up to age 12 throughou
Clay Forgan has joined Century 21 MRC in St Albans as a realtor. Forgan, who grew up in the real estate business — his father being a broker himself — believes in building strong relationships with his clients.
Community College of Vermont student David Budnick has been named a 2023 New Century Transfer Scholar and will receive a $2,250 scholarship. He is the only New Century scholar to be selected from Vermont.
Two faculty members at the South Royalton Legal Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School — Meg York, professor and lead attorney of the Family Law Project, and Jill Martin Diaz, assistant professor and lead attorney of the Vermont Immigrant Assistance project — have been named as two of the 4
Deirdre Heekin, owner and operator of La Garagista Farm and Winery in Barnard, has been named one of Food & Wine magazine's Drinks Innovators of the Year for 2023. Heekin and the eight other awardees were celebrated as "groundbreaking talents who are changing the way we drink for the better."
David Reynolds, a longtime health care leader in Vermont, has rejoined the Office of US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) as Sanders takes up the gavel as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Shelly Hudson, program coordinator at Spark!, a different-abled drop-in center in Lebanon, NH, has been named executive director of Camp Thorpe, a summer camp in Goshen, VT, for underprivileged children with physical disabilities.
Vermont Public has announced the first recipients of the Made Here Fund, an initiative to broaden and diversify storytelling in Vermont.
The Vermont Democratic Party has announced the hiring of Liam O'Sullivan as House campaign director and Justin Srsic as Senate caucus director. In these roles, they will be working closely with House and Senate Democratic leadership as well as the party to prepare and execute successful campaigns in 2024.
Adam Pearce of Norwich, co-founder and executive director of the LoveYourBrain Foundation, has been named a 2023 CNN Hero, a year-round initiative that honors everyday people for their selfless, creative efforts to make the world a better place.