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Naila Baloch, associate chaplain at Middlebury College’s Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, will address Lyndon State College’s Class of 2016 at its commencement ceremony, Sunday, May 15 at 11:00 a.m.

A $100,000 grant to COTS from the National Life Group Foundation will support the state’s largest homeless agency as it redevelops its flagship building in Burlington and continues to expand its services.

Ted Mable, Ed.D., Executive Director of Northwestern Counseling & Support Services, Inc. (NCSS) is pleased to announce the appointments of Tim Gallagan as the Director of Finance / CFO and Kim McClellan as the Director of Operations / COO effective April 1, 2016.

David Silverman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Union Bank has announced the recent hiring of Shane Mispel to the position of Assistant Vice President/Commercial Loan Officer. Shane will be dividing his time working in the Main office in Morrisville and in St. Johnsbury.

Pomerleau Real Estate has announced the addition of 2 agents to their Commercial Brokerage team.

Vermont’s tourism industry professionals gathered this week in Killington, Vt. for the 33rd annual Vermont Tourism Summit, formerly known as the Vermont Travel Industry Conference. Together, they celebrated the success of their peers with six awards; two presented by the Vermont Tourism Summit and four presented by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

Grant Butterfield from Nedde Real Estate has listed and sold a parking lot/land property previously owned by Charlebois Holdings, LLC located at 623 Roosevelt Highway, Colchester to the State of Vermont.

BioTek’s Scientific Director, Dr. Peter Banks, was recently named to the Scientific & Editorial Advisory Board of the premier biotech publication, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). In this role, Dr. Banks will offer key insights to aid the publication as it addresses the broad commercial trajectory of the international bioindustry.

From coin identification to how our banking system works—Vermont students were challenged this year, through two financial literacy programs, to learn more about how our economy works. State Treasurer Beth Pearce recognized student achievement in the Reading is an Investment program and the Be Money Wise financial literacy poster contest.

The Special Olympics Vermont staff grew with the addition of a new Events

Manager, Sasha Fisher of Burlington. The organization also welcomed four new

Board members since the beginning of 2016.

Doug Nedde and Grant Butterfield from Nedde Real Estate

and Alain Youkel from Youkel Architecture + Development, have acquired

the 22,000 SF historic TD Bank building located at 8 North Main St in downtown

St Albans, Vermont from TD Bank. TD Bank will continue business

in the first floor of the building and plans have begun for renovations on the

Jeff Schulman '89, a member of the University of Vermont athletic department's central administration for more than two decades and a former Catamount student-athlete, has been named the University's next Director of Athletics. University President Tom Sullivan made the announcement on Wednesday afternoon at Patrick Gym.