Peter Espenshade has been named to succeed Jody Woos as executive director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, board officials said.
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Lynn Ellen Schimoler has joined the leadership team at Vermont Land Trust as vice president of operations. She comes to the organization from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, where she supported the Working Lands Enterprise Board and administered grants and contracts for the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative.
Lauren Dorsey, a recent classical studies graduate of Dartmouth College, has been named education specialist at the American Precision Museum in Windsor.
MENTOR Vermont has appointed three new members — Andrea Haddad, principal at Ernst & Young; Beth Vanderputten Perlongo, chief of staff and strategy at Redstone; and Joshua Jarvis, a 12-year veteran of the finance industry — to its board of directors.
ReArch Company has awarded a $5,000 scholarship to Winooski School District graduate Kaleb Roucoulet, who plans to enroll at the Advanced Welding Institute in South Burlington.
Bennington College announced the appointment of nine new faculty members for the 2022-23 school year. These include neurodiverse activists and change-makers, multiple trans scholars, women in traditionally underrepresented fields and two former Bennington College students, among others.
Burlington School District has named Denise Bailey executive director of human resources and promoted Sarah Gould and Antony Dennis to vice principal for the 2022-23 school year.
Five long-time employees of Community National Bank — Justin Bourgeois, Jennifer Daigle, Beth Morin, Kelly Paul and Kimico Perry — have been promoted to senior vice president for their demonstrated commitment to the bank, its customers and its employees, President and CEO Kathy Austin announced.
Former Champlain Housing Trust CEO Brenda Torpy, former Vermont Housing Finance Agency Executive Director Sarah Carpenter and NOTCH Executive Director Pam Parsons will be honored by the Vermont Council on Rural Development at the organization's 2022 Vermont Community Leadership Summit Aug 10 at Vermont Technical College in Randolph.
Ledyard National Bank CEO Kathy Underwood was recently elected to the board of directors of Florida-based TCM Bank, a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard.
Anne Farley of Wolcott has joined the social-service nonprofit HomeShare Vermont as a case manager. In this role, Farley will work to match people looking for a place to live with homeowners in Lamoille, Orange and Washington counties who are seeking a housemate to provide some rental income and/or help around the house.