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College of St. Joseph has announced the promotions of Judy Frazier to Vice President for Human Resources and James Lambert to Associate Vice President for Marketing and External Affairs.

The Vermont National Guard announced that CPT Austin F. Barber, Vermont Army National Guard received the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award.

Ledyard National Bank has announced that William E. Kidder Jr., has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Senior Lending Officer. This promotion marks Bill’s inclusion onto the Bank’s eight person Senior Management Team as well as taking on the additional responsibilities of overseeing the credit and administrative divisions of the lending department.

United Counseling Service (UCS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dawn Danner to Director of Developmental Services. Developmental Services provides Community and social support, employment services and residential services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

The Chittenden County Opioid Alliance (CCOA) announced that it has hired Cathy Aikman as project director. CCOA is a new collaborative partnership with local non-profit agencies, state and local government, UVM Medical Center, business leaders and community members in Chittenden County dedicated to reducing the opioid crisis and the burden it brings to our community.

The University of Vermont Health Network - Central Vermont Medical Center Auxiliary has awarded 11 scholarships of $2,500 each to students living in the central Vermont area who are pursuing a career in health care. The $27,500 for scholarships was raised by sales at two auxiliary-run shops, the Bene-Fit Shop in Barre and the gift shop at the hospital.

VHB has announced that Jordan Duffy, will join its South Burlington, VT office as a Civil Site Designer. Jordan will support the office’s Land Development and Environmental Services teams with site/civil and stormwater design projects as well as permitting. Jordan recently graduated from the University of Vermont with his MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

More than 100 were in attendance to celebrate the grand opening and ribbon cutting for The Ridge at Quail Hollow, the 62-unit, fourth phase of an award-winning independent senior housing community in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, that brings much needed affordable and independent senior housing to the region.

For the first time, patients and members of the public will have access to the The University of Vermont Medical Center’s extensive collection of Vermont artwork by visiting a virtual gallery (uvmhealth.org/medcenterart) created in collaboration with Burlington City Arts.

David Silverman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Union Bank has announced the recent hiring of Timothy R. Ross to the position of Vice President-Commercial Loan Officer.

The Stowe Area Association presented the Stowe Business Person of the Year award at their Annual Membership Dinner, which was held on June 15th at the Commodores Inn.

Jack Gilbert of Gringo Jack’s was re-elected president of the Vermont Specialty Food Association at its annual meeting June 9. Whitney Lamy of Castleton Crackers was elected vice president and Bob Christoffel was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

Newly elected board members were Calley Hastings of Fat Toad Farm and Michael Adams of Pack Commercial Kitchen.