The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, has awarded 14 Vermont high school seniors scholarships through its annual Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program.
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Burlington Labs CEO and Co-Founder Michael Casarico was presented with one of Vermont’s top honors for work supporting addiction recovery. Casarico accepted the 2015 Jack Barry Award at a ceremony at the annual Recovery Day at the Vermont Statehouse.
Eva McKend has joined the WCAX News Team after spending two years as a reporter at the Time Warner Cable News station in the Hudson Valley. During her time in the Greater New York City region, Eva covered many stories at the 24-hour cable news channel that received national and international attention.
Vermont’s own Hinda Miller received a Lifetime Achievement Award last night in Glasgow, Scotland, at the Sports Business Innovation Awards 2015, for invention of the “Jogbra”, a sports bra for women she co-invented in 1977.
Norwich University’s Sullivan Museum and History Center, the state’s only Smithsonian Affiliate, will host Dr. Tom Crouch, Senior Curator of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for a lunch-and-learn on Wednesday, April 8 at noon in Milano Ballroom, located in Roberts Hall.
Lyndon State College will host a “Media and Social Justice” panel discussion on Tuesday, March 31 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Moore Community Room/ASAC 100. It is presented in partnership with Lyndon FAIR (Promoting Fairness, Awareness, Inclusion, and Relationships in our community) as part of Lyndon State’s on-going Year of Social Justice events and is free and open to the public.
National Bank of Middlebury has announced that Stacey Brown has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She is currently an officer, and vice president, and until her promotion was the Finance Operations Manager. Ms. Brown received her Accounting degree from Champlain College and joined the NBM team a few short months later.
SunCommon in Waterbury Center has hired Karen Nielsen as Community Solar Advisor, Dustin Bowman and Nicole Bourassa as Community Solar Membership Coordinators and Olga Martin as Community Solar Specialist.
Mindy S. Lubber, one of the world’s most influential leaders in harnessing capitalism for positive environmental outcomes, will be Green Mountain College’s 2015 commencement speaker on Saturday, May 16.
Hannaford Supermarkets today donated approximately $5,000 in food to the Vermont Foodbank as part of a hunger-relief campaign that produced more than $1 million in product and cash donations across five Northeast states, including $107,000 in Vermont.
Bowl New England Inc., headquartered in Colchester, Vermont announces the addition of Bill Moller as Corporate Systems Administrator. Moller brings over a decade of IT experience and is responsible for building and maintaining the technical infrastructure required to support all of Bowl New England’s sixteen entertainment centers along the east coast.
The Retrovest Company is pleased to announce that Tom Currell has joined the organization as a Principal of the firm. Tom has worked with Retrovest in a consulting capacity since 2013 and brings over 23 years of experience in real estate development, project finance, public private partnerships, and urban revitalization.