United Counseling Service, a private, nonprofit community mental health center serving Bennington County, has appointed Danielle Gallen as its new director of human resources. She succeeds outgoing director Leslie Addison, who will retire in December.
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Century 21 MRC recently welcomed Kylie Callan and Heather Gleim to its Saint Albans office. Callan is the daughter of broker/owner Stacie M Callan. A senior at Colby-Sawyer College, she is scheduled to graduate in spring 2023 with a degree in business administration and a minor in accounting and finance.
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center recently welcomed Michael Silverberg, DO, to SVMC Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians.
Laura McDonough, senior operations administrator at AARP Vermont, has been appointed to the new position of associate state director of communications at the nonprofit organization.
Sophie Quest of Burlington has been named winner of the 2022 AARP Andrus Award for Community Service in Vermont, the association's most prestigious honor. The award is named for AARP founder Ethel Percy Andrus, an educator and tireless advocate of community service and volunteerism.
Mimi Buttenheim, president of Mad River Distillers, has been elected as the new president of the Distilled Spirits Council of Vermont, an organization created to develop, promote and maintain the independent distilling industry in the Green Mountain State.
Open Approach, an information technology managed service provider in Burlington, has hired Sam Hall as account manager. In his new role, Hall will partner with his clients, support their goals and needs, and nurture long-lasting relationships.
Robert M Paolini of Waterbury, an attorney and former state legislator who previously served for two decades as executive director of the Vermont Bar Association, has been tapped to lead the organization once again following a nationwide search by the board of managers.
Charlotte-based public relations firm Junapr has announced the addition of its 14th full-time employee, Morgan Whitehouse, as associate director. Whitehouse has nearly a decade of experience in communications and public relations in fields spanning the ski industry, health care and craft beer.
The Vermont Chamber of Commerce has appointed three new members to its board of directors: Chris Karr of The Karr Restaurant Group, Killington; Steve Gagner of 14th Star Brewing, St Albans; and Steve Boyer of Sonnax, Bellows Falls.
The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund recently welcomed Laura Brill as bookkeeper and contracts manager. VSJF is a nonprofit organization focused on sustainable economic development in the agriculture and food system, forest product, waste management, renewable energy and environmental technology sectors.
Barre Area Development Corporation has named Aimée Green as its new executive director. Green brings to the job more than 25 years' experience spearheading complex business operations in economic development, finance, programmatic initiatives and policy in the highly regulated industries of municipals, energy and the health care sector in Vermont and Maine.