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Vermont Public has hired two local media leaders, April McCullum and Michael Dougherty, to expand service on digital platforms and reach a broader and more diverse audience. McCullum will join the newsroom as digital editor, and Dougherty will take on the role of director of digital strategy.
VHB employees Wayne B Symonds and Stephanie Wyman have been named Vermont’s Engineer of the Year and Young Engineer of the Year, respectively, for 2023. Symonds, a senior structural engineer, joined VHB's South Burlington office last year after retiring from a 29-year career at the Vermont Agency of Transportation.
Orly Yadin, executive director of the Vermont International Film Festival since 2012, has announced she will step down from her role on June 30. Yadin has been involved with the festival since arriving in Burlington from London in 2002.
Glenn McRae of Burlington, director of the Northeast Transportation Workforce Center at the University of Vermont, has been elected to the board of directors at Colchester-based Age Well, the leading experts and advocates on aging in northwestern Vermont.
ReArch Company has hired Evan Kelley as a superintendent and Stacey Bevins as director of marketing and communications.
Kelley joins ReArch with nearly a decade of industry experience working in New England. In his previous position as a superintendent in Boston, he completed several projects over $15 million.
Governor Phil Scott has appointed Farzana Leyva of Westfield as state's attorney for Orleans County. Leyva has served as acting state’s attorney since last September, when Scott appointed former state’s attorney Jennifer Barrett to the superior court.
Tim Tierney, Vermont director of international trade and business recruitment, has been elected to the New England-Canada Business Council Board of Directors.Tierney serves as the main point of contact for Vermont state government for trade and direct foreign investment through his position at the Department of Economic Development at the Agency of Comme
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility welcomed three new members to the organization’s board of directors.
Civil litigator Margarita Warren has been elected as a director and shareholder at the Burlington law firm Dinse. Warren joined Dinse in 2019 following her tenure at a civil litigation defense firm representing clients in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and clerking for the Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, MA.
Rosanna Lacross, human resource specialist for the Rutland, VT, and Asheville, NC, sites of GE Aerospace, has joined the team of volunteers at Vermont Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.
Gifford Health Care has hired Kathrine Baumann as its new community relations coordinator. Baumann moved to the Randolph area five years ago and immediately became immersed in the community. As a youth group mentor at Bethany Church, she worked with and got to know many of the community’s younger members.