Rita-Mary Sweeney, a speech-language pathologist with more than 10 years' experience treating adults and adolescents with communication, voice, cognitive and swallowing disorders, has joined the speech-language department at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.
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Emily Bush, former senior stakeholder adviser at the pro-democracy nonprofit Civic Influencers, has been named executive director of the Vermont Women's Fund, a statewide philanthropic resource for women and girls. She succeeds Meg Smith, who led the fund for the last decade.
Community National Bank has appointed Lisa Hommel of Island Pond as senior vice president and chief operating officer. In this role, she will be responsible for retail banking, deposit operations, electronic banking, loan servicing and loss mitigation.
The Howard Center in Burlington has tapped Sandra McGuire, the organization's chief financial and operations officer for the last 10 years, to be its next CEO. She will begin work June 1, succeeding Bob Bick, who is retiring May 31.
The Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, a national resource for colleges and universities that provide student reporting to local news outlets, has hired veteran journalist Scott Finn to spearhead a new effort to build partnerships between public media organizations and colleges across the country.
Scott Hadley of Shelburne, owner of Hadley Financial Group, has been recognized as New York Life's Vermont Agent of the Year for 2023. Hadley has been an agent with New York Life since 1998 and is associated with the company's Vermont general office in Colchester.
State Sen. Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, was honored in January as MENTOR Vermont's inaugural State Legislator of the Year for her leadership last year in passing the most significant increase since 2007 in state funding for the mentoring field.
Mack Molding, a leading custom plastics molder and supplier of contract manufacturing services, has promoted employees Ann Wedell, Bethany Hassett and Caitlin Hawley and welcomed new hires Duncan Smith, Darren Gale, Benjamin Schwartz and Tshering Tamang to its new-business development; manufacturing; engineering; and procurement teams.
Vermont State Police Trooper Michelle Archer has been selected as one of four finalists across the United States and Canada for the International Association of Chiefs of Police / Motorola Solutions Trooper of the Year Award.
Vermont engineers Jeffrey Tucker of Barre Town and Jordan Duffy of Richmond have been named tops in their profession for 2024 by the state's professional engineering societies.
Community Bank has promoted David Schalk to commercial banking group manager in New England. In his new role, Schalk will be responsible for managing the Vermont and Massachusetts commercial lending teams.
Alden Smith, former longtime director of the Mountain School of Milton Academy in Vershire, has been named the next executive director of the Quechee-based Vermont Institute of Natural Science. He will begin work April 1 and succeed Charles Rattigan, who has led the institute for the last almost 10 years.