Major General Greg Knight, adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard, recently presented Essex Police Chief Ron Hoague with the Defense Department's Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Patriot Award. Hoague was nominated for the award by his servicemember employee, Specialist Justin Lindor, a member of C Troop 1-172nd Cavalry.
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The 34th cohort of the Lake Champlain Chamber’s Leadership Champlain program celebrated its graduation at Main Street Landing in mid-June.
Emma Henderson, former training coordinator at the Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery, has been named business outreach director at the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.
Walter Frame, executive vice president and director of the Trapp Family Lodge, was named the Stowe Area Association's Stowe Business Person of the Year at the group's annual meeting and dinner at the lodge on June 14.
The Springfield Rotary Club has awarded $2,000 college scholarships to recent high school graduates Ariana Cioffi (left), Timothy Amsden (center) and Emily Chamberlin. Cioffi will be attending the University of New England, Amsden will be at Western New England University and Chamberlin will study at the University of Mississippi.
Engel & Völkers Okemo in Ludlow has hired adviser Rae Beaudette of South Woodstock, signaling the brokerage’s continued expansion across southern Vermont.
The Howard Center in Burlington, a provider of mental-health, developmental-disability and substance-use services in Chittenden County, has hired Catarina Campbell as the agency's first director of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Mike Korkuc, a longtime volunteer who has helped protect and expand loon populations at Lake Dunmore and surrounding lakes for 15 years, has been named the winner of Green Mountain Power's 2022 GMP-Zetterstrom Environmental Award.
Two Norwich University faculty members participated in the US Army War College's annual national security seminar in Carlisle, PA, June 5-9.
Lori Wagner, former CEO of The Nantucket Project, has joined Commando, the women’s intimates, bodywear and ready-to-wear brand based in South Burlington, as chief marketing officer.
Crystal Currier, controller for the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority in Waterbury Center, received the Mark Crisson Leadership and Managerial Excellence Award during the American Public Power Association’s national conference in Nashville, TN.
ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain has appointed Charlie Smith as the museum’s interim executive director, effective June 13. He succeeds founding director Phelan Fretz, who recently retired after leading the science museum on the Burlington Waterfront for the past 20 years.