Dana Hudson, a longtime advocate of the farm to school movement in Vermont, has been named network coordinator at the Vermont Farm to School and Early Childhood Network in Sherburne.
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Realtor Adam Carron has joined Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, a Burlington-based agency consistently ranked as the No. 1 Coldwell Banker office in Vermont. Carron brings to H&B significant project management, marketing, and analytical skills honed while representing such brands as Dannon, Light & Fit, and After Bite.
TD Bank has promoted Don Baker, former commercial market president for Vermont, to the expanded role of commercial market president for northern New England. In his new position, Baker will lead the commercial and small business banking teams in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Stephanie Geery, former estimator and project manager at O'Neil Landscape Design and Oak Hill Mulch Co. in Westford, Massachusetts, and Michael Snyder, former project engineer at PC Construction Co. in South Burlington, have joined DEW Construction in Williston as project engineers.
David Boyd, former assistant attorney general and deputy solicitor general for Vermont, has rejoined the Burlington law firm Gravel & Shea as a shareholder.
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.
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.