Scott Johnstone, former New England energy market leader at VHB, has joined Morrisville Water & Light as general manager. He succeeds Penny Jones, who will return to her passion of accounting as MW&L's controller.
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Wayne Symonds, who recently retired from the Vermont Agency of Transportation after nearly 30 years of service, has joined VHB as senior structural engineer at the company's South Burlington office.
The Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging in Saint Johnsbury has hired Felicity Norko, a recent graduate of Northern Vermont University, and Brooke Brown, a senior at NVU, to support two of its key volunteer programs.
Gina Mireault, professor of psychology and chair of the Johnson Psychology and Human Services department.at Northern Vermont University, was recently awarded a research grant from the National Institutes of Health and named a Vermont State Colleges Systems Faculty Fellow for the 2022-23 academic year.
Karen Sastri, a 25-year employee at NBT Bank, has been elevated to the position of chief diversity officer of the financial institution, which operates through a network of 140 banking locations in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut.
Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Barre has elected two new members, Connie Colman and Fred Grubb, to serve on its board of directors.
Mary DiNallo has joined the psychiatry and counseling team at Gifford Health Care, where she will provide mental health care for people in the community, including veterans who have substance use and post-traumatic stress disorders.
Seth Leonard of Winooski, managing director of community development at Vermont Housing Finance Agency, has been selected for the Fulcrum Fellowship by the Center for Community Investment at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Scott Hadley of Shelburne, owner of Hadley Financial Group in South Burlington, has been recognized as New York Life’s Producer of the Year for 2022. Hadley has been an agent with New York Life since 1998 and a financial adviser with Eagle Strategies since 2009, and is associated with the Vermont general office in Colchester.
Community College of Vermont student Autumn Morse of Brattleboro has been awarded a highly competitive Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. The award will provide Morse with up to $55,000 a year to complete her bachelor’s degree.
United Way of Northwest Vermont, an organization dedicated to improving lives in Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties, elected new leadership and seven new members to its board of directors in May.
Burlington High School senior Ali Ali, a member of the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington, has been named Vermont State Youth of the Year for 2022 and will advance to the Northeast Regional Youth of the Year competition June 23 in New York City.