Dr. Edgar Holmes, III, MD orthopaedic surgeon and principal founder of the Vermont Orthopaedic Clinic was recently inducted into the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame.
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The maintenance building on the campus of Lyndon State College will be named the Arthur W. Peake Maintenance Facility in memory of former Lyndon employee Art Peake. The motion was unanimously approved by the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees.
Dr. David M. Gorson, an endocrinologist and member of the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center medical staff, has once again been named as one of the Best Doctors in America® for 2015 - 2016. Dr. Gorson also received the same recognition 2009 - 2012.
The Vermont Community Foundation welcomed Allyson Laackman to its board of directors this fall. The Community Foundation’s Board of Directors is elected by the Foundation’s 150 members.
The Vermont State Colleges (VSC) Board of Trustees approved six nominees for the new Vermont State Colleges’ Hall of Fame. Five distinguished alumni awardees representing each college and one at large awardee singled out for extraordinary contribution to the VSC will be honored at the March 9 VSC Hall of Fame inaugural celebration.
SunCommon of Waterbury Center, a Vermont Certified Benefit Corporation, has announced the addition of several new staff members.
Spc. Skylar Anderson, a member of the Vermont Army National Guard, became the first female Soldier in the nation to be awarded the 12B Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) code as a combat engineer. Graduating from the 164th Regiment Regional Training Institute (RTI) in Devils Lake, North Dakota, Aug. 31, 2015.
Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice (CVHHH) President & CEO, Sandy Rousse, CPA, has been elected as President of the VNAs of Vermont (VNAVT). VNAVT is the association of 11 not-for-profit Visiting Nurse Associations providing home health and hospice care to all Vermonters.
Practicing medicine will soon become a family affair at UVM Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center’s Green Mountain Family Practice as Matthew Sullivan, MD, joins his father Dr. Craig Sullivan in Northfield where he has been a doctor for more than 30 years.
The Vermont Agency, an affiliate of National Life Group has announced that two of our associates, Starr Barnum, V, a financial representative in our Colchester Vermont office and Michael Castillo, LUTCF, CFP®, CLU, a financial representative with Landmark Financial Services, LLC in Vergennes have recently earned their Master Mentor accreditation from MoneyTrax.
Sixty-three staff and volunteers were recognized for anniversaries ranging from 5 to 35 years at the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties’ Annual Staff and Volunteer Recognition Dinner recently. Over 200 staff, volunteers and friends of the VNA gathered to honor their colleagues and friends at the celebration, which was held at the Hampton Inn in Colchester.
Now in its 150th year, Howard Center recently appointed five new members to its board of trustees to serve three-year terms.