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Chroma Technology announced that Chris Karp recently rejoined the Bellows Falls company as director of sales. In his new role, Karp will lead the sales and customer-service teams and support and execute the organizational sales strategy.

The construction management firm ReArch Company in South Burlington recently welcomed four new employees to its growing team. They are project engineers Austin Hart and Sarah LeClair, estimator Justin Palker and preconstruction manager Ben Buglovsky.

At the annual meeting of the Vermont Medical Society Nov 5 in Stowe, the 2,400-member physician advocacy organization elected a new slate of executive committee officers, awarded the Mildred Reardon Medical Student Scholarship and honored 2022 VMS Leadership awardees.

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital recently welcomed Esther Barnes, DPM, to its podiatry practice in St Johnsbury. Barnes is one of a handful of podiatric surgeons in the state certified in foot surgery as well as reconstructive rearfoot and ankle surgery by the American Board of Podiatric Surgeons.

The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center has selected Lia Rothstein of Hanover, NH, as its 2023 Climate Change Artist in Residence. A professional photographer and artist for more than 40 years, Rothstein currently centers her work around issues of fragility and transience.

Beth Holden, director of home and community services at the Howard Center in Burlington, has been selected to succeed Catherine Simonson as the mental health and developmental disability services agency's next chief client services officer, effective Dec 3.

United Counseling Service, a private, nonprofit community mental health center serving Bennington County, has appointed Danielle Gallen as its new director of human resources. She succeeds outgoing director Leslie Addison, who will retire in December.

Century 21 MRC recently welcomed Kylie Callan and Heather Gleim to its Saint Albans office. Callan is the daughter of broker/owner Stacie M Callan. A senior at Colby-Sawyer College, she is scheduled to graduate in spring 2023 with a degree in business administration and a minor in accounting and finance.

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center recently welcomed Michael Silverberg, DO, to SVMC Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians.

Laura McDonough, senior operations administrator at AARP Vermont, has been appointed to the new position of associate state director of communications at the nonprofit organization.

Sophie Quest of Burlington has been named winner of the 2022 AARP Andrus Award for Community Service in Vermont, the association's most prestigious honor. The award is named for AARP founder Ethel Percy Andrus, an educator and tireless advocate of community service and volunteerism.

Mimi Buttenheim, president of Mad River Distillers, has been elected as the new president of the Distilled Spirits Council of Vermont, an organization created to develop, promote and maintain the independent distilling industry in the Green Mountain State.