The annual Gallery in the Garden art show and silent auction at the Senator Justin S. Morrill State Historic Site in Strafford this year includes house tours highlighting the senator’s personal art collection. The centerpiece of the tour is the newly restored portrait of Justin Morrill by Constantino Brumidi, on loan from the Morrill Memorial & Harris Library.
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Montague Golf Club in Randolph was host to the High School Girls State Golf Championship recently. Andy Wass and his staff who did an outstanding job having the golf course in terrific shape.
In Division I the team championship was won by North Country by one shot over Rutland.
High-end corporate furniture manufacturer WallGoldfinger of Vermont has expanded its sales representative team to Pennsylvania, Delaware and Southern New Jersey with the addition of experienced Philadelphia-based Facility & Design Resource (FDR).
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) recently celebrated National Homeownership Month at Putney resident Dennis Miller’s new home at Locust Hill Mobile Home Park. Miller is the first homeowner to purchase an energy efficient modular home through USDA Rural Development’s Energy Efficient Manufactured Home Pilot Program.
V/T Commercial represented People's United Bank in the sale of the former Pine Ridge School campus in Williston. The sale included over 125 acres and 14 buildings comprised of approximately 68,000 square feet. The buyer was NETS Institute for Church Planting.
A crew of volunteers from GE Healthcare just completed constructing four new raised garden beds at Cathedral Square Senior Living on Cherry Street in Burlington. This brings the group’s total to twenty, with sixteen previous built at McAuley Square on Mansfield Ave in Burlington.
Hunger Free Vermont, Vermont’s leading anti‐hunger organization working to end the injustice of hunger and malnutrition for all Vermonters, announced today the election of local accounting professional, Jennifer Andrews; Vermont Democratic Senator for Chittenden County, Michael Sirotkin; and Brian Waxler, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Pomerleau Real Estate to the organization’
Anita Bourgeois, Senior Director, Deposit Growth and Profitability for Merchants Bank announced the promotion of Erika Baldasaro, Assistant Vice President Cash Management and Government Banking to Vice President Community Banking Division and Sales Manager at Merchants Bank.
The board of the Vermont Community Foundation announced that it has hired Dan Smith as its next President & CEO. Smith brings to the Community Foundation experience in public service, organizational planning and development, as well as a strong legal background.
Competitive Computing (C2), a Colchester-based digital solutions company specializing in Digital Commerce, Cloud Infrastructure and Managed Services has hired Nathan Brown. Nathan Brown recently graduated from Vermont Technical College with a degree in Computer Science and joined C2 full time as an Associate Software Developer.
The Village School of North Bennington thanks outgoing Board of Trustee members Jay Girvin, David Monks and Rachel Schumacher for their many years of outstanding service and dedication.
VSNB also welcomes 3 new members to the Board of Trustees: Brian Murphy, Sue Maguire and Jill VanOrden.
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew has announce that Linda J. Cohen, a Director at the firm, has been awarded a Master of Healthcare Delivery Science Degree from Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business and Geisel School of Medicine.