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Soxxy, the leading performance-fashion sock brand, announces a sponsorship deal with gold medal snowboarder, Lindsey Jacobellis. Lindsey is the first elite action sports athlete to join Soxxy's roster.

Ledyard National Bank has announced that Reginald Greene has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Director of Lending and Credit. Reggie is responsible for all aspects of Ledyard National Bank’s lending business including commercial, residential and consumer lending, and will continue to manage the credit function of the Bank.

Dr. Naomi Fukagawa, professor of medicine at the University of Vermont, has been named director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, the oldest and most comprehensive of the six human nutrition research facilities under USDA.

James P. Farrington, a 13-plus-year veteran of Saint Michael's College's Facilities Department as a project manager and architect, will be the new director of facilities and College architect, effective March 1.

Lake Sunapee Bank is pleased to announce the recent hire of John Duddie as Vice President, Commercial Loan Officer. Mr. Duddie brings a wealth of commercial lending and overall banking experience to Lake Sunapee Bank and is a familiar face to many in the Randolph area, having worked at Randolph National Bank as a Commercial and Residential Loan Officer from 2006 to 2013.

Sodexo, a world leader in providing integrated facilities management and food service operations, today announced the hiring of Anne Rowell of Craftsbury, Vt., as the director of its “Vermont First” local food initiative.

Websticker.com, located in Stowe’s lower village, has promoted Kristen Condit to Director of Sales.

Gov. Peter Shumlin has appointed two new members to the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees, Churchill Hindes of Colchester and Michael Pieciak of Winooski, and has reappointed Linda Milne of Montpelier.

Do you know who owns your beer? After a year of organization, planning, and home-brewing beer, the members of Full Barrel Cooperative Brewery & Taproom are one step closer to making the answer to be “you.” On Sunday, March 1st, member-owners gathered in Burlington and voted to approve the brewery’s first bylaws, elect a board of directors, and select the brand’s first logo.

North Country Angels, Inc. (NCA), Vermont’s only angel investment group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ken Merritt as Managing Director and Scott Gale and Dan Pflaster as Directors.

KSV, the Burlington-based marketing firm, has hired Brent Sitterly to the new position of analytics manager.

Sitterly brings a wealth of diverse experiences to KSV, having served as a performance analyst at Dealer.com, a fixed-income quantitative analyst at Dwight Asset Management, and information technician in the United States Navy.

The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) presented Citizens Financial Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Van Saun with a 2015 Corporate Social Responsibility Award last Thursday at its annual dinner in New York City. The Corporate Social Responsibility Award is given to an individual or corporation for demonstrating exceptional corporate citizenship.