Geri Reilly Real Estate welcomes Wendy O’Brien to our team as a new realtor/sales associate. Wendy has over 30 years of experience as an Office Manager/Bookkeeper for an architectural firm in Burlington, Vermont. A native Vermonter, Wendy currently resides in South Burlington with her husband and two children. Wendy spends her spare time as a therapy pet trainer.
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The Village School of North Bennington has announced the addition of Brian Murphy to the school’s board of trustees. In addition to regular board duties, Murphy will serve on the board’s Finance Committee. A resident of Shaftsbury, Murphy serves as Vice President of Finance and Administration for Bennington College and as the College’s Treasurer.
Malcolm Paine, MD, has been elected to a three-year term as vice chair of the Vermont section of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In this new role, Paine will attend advisory council meetings and serve as the legislative contact for the organization.
The VBA Board of Managers has announced that Therese (Teri) Corsones of Mendon, Vermont, will succeed Robert (Bob) Paolini as executive director of the association, effective May 1, 2016. Teri has been a VBA member since 1982, following her graduation from Cornell University Law School that year.
Engineering Ventures has announced the addition of two new Staff Engineers to the Burlington, Vermont office. Dylan Quinn has joined the structural engineering group, and Hannah Wingate joins the civil engineering group.
Two financial-service firms in Middlebury’s Marble Works are coming together to create Marble Trail Financial, which blends asset management and planning with certified public accounting to offer the most complete service package of its kind in the area.
Legal Secretary Brenda Perron Ham of Sheffield has been named the winner of the coveted Diane Lynch Distinguished Service Award at the northern New England law firm Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC. The award was recently presented at the firm’s annual holiday celebration at the Stoweflake Resort in Stowe.
Watersheds United Vermont (WUV) welcomes new Director, Lyn Munno, to lead the efforts to empower community-based watershed groups in all parts of the state to protect and restore Vermont’s waters.
Merchants Bank partnered with WARMTH again this year to help prevent low-income Vermonters across the state from going without heat this winter. Merchants Bank matched dollar-for-dollar donations raised for WARMTH throughout the month of December. Coupled with the Merchants Bank match of $40,000, the Vermont community raised $107,087.
Kim Goodman, a longtime financial services executive, has been elected to the board of directors at National Life Group.
The Center for Research on Vermont has selected Kathy Fox, professor of sociology at the University of Vermont, as the 2016 Frank M. Bryan Vermont Scholar, for a Vermont research project on offender reintegration.
Members of the Cancer Center Community Crusaders (known as the 4Cs) and the Quiet Valley Quilters have joined forces to support patients at Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center. In October, the three organizations worked together to provide 14 handmade quilts to cancer patients whose treatment had ended who had transitioned to hospice care.