People in the news

Northwestern Medical Center is pleased to announce that Christopher Hickey has accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer at the hospital.

Dr. Erwin Lange has joined Gifford’s Primary Care team and is seeing patients at the Rochester Health Center. He started in Rochester as a locum in November, 2015, and has now settled in full-time as the community’s primary care provider.

TPW has announced that John Bertucci joins the growing Real Estate Sales team with a focus on the Deerfield Valley area.

Tom Cosinuke, ChFC, CLU has joined the UBS Financial Services, Inc. team of Integrity Wealth Management with locations in South Burlington and Rutland, VT. This team is a comprehensive, financial planning oriented, wealth management team. It is comprised of Jessica Anderson, CFP, CIMA, CPWA (Jessica is a Barron's 400 Top Female Advisor, nationally), Margo Jones, CFP and Alicia Munukka.

The Community Sailing Center (CSC) has announced that six new members have been elected to its Board of Directors. The new members will serve three year terms, which began onJanuary 1, 2016. In addition to the new board members, the CSC has also announced the officers and full Board of Directors for 2016.

Fort Ticonderoga has announced the recipients of teacher scholarships to attend the Twenty-First Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War May 20-22, 2016. They are:

The Institute of Professional Practice, Inc, a non-profit human services organization that serves adults and children with developmental disabilities, has announced that three new members have been selected to serve on the organization’s Board of Directors. The new board members are Donna Curtin, Michael Hartman, and Deborah Shenk. They were installed at the annual meeting on March 1, 2016.

Karen Glass – a professor on the Colchester Campus of Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences – was recently awarded a $384,000 research grant from the Nat’l Institutes of Health (NIH).

But what’s even more impressive is the fact that she received the highest score possible on her NIH grant application. That achievement puts her in the top 1% of all applicants in the country!

CCV Rutland student Dale Kenyon will travel to NASA’s Langley Research Center in May to participate in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars project (NCAS). Kenyon, of Shrewsbury, will be one of 216 community college students from across the U.S. to be part of NCAS.

The launching of Solar Works, a new sister company of Weatherization Works performing on site solar assessments and Solar PV installations, has been announced. Together with Weatherization Works, the two companies now offer a complete package of home energy efficiency upgrades, installation of high efficiency cold climate heat pumps and renewable energy.

Northfield Savings Bank has donated $25,000 to Vermont Technical College to support workforce development in Vermont's manufacturing sector. Vermont Tech recently launched a Bachelor of Science degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology and is enhancing its manufacturing and electrical engineering laboratories to bolster Vermont's capacity for advanced manufacturing.

The People’s United Community Foundation, the philanthropic arm of People’s United Bank, has announced that it has once again awarded $7,500 to the Boys and Girls Club of Rutland; as well as $3,000 to Everybody Wins!