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Sugar River Bank is pleased to announce that Debra Davis Timberlake has recently joined its Business Banking Center as Vice President of Commercial Lending. Debra has over 27 years of management and commercial lending experience.

DuBois & King, Inc., consulting engineers, announces that Wilbur H. Horton, Jr., P.E., has joined the firm as a Senior Electrical Engineer and Project Manager. Mr. Horton’s 24 years of experience includes electrical engineering for wastewater treatment, commercial, healthcare, and educational facilities. Mr.

Jack McKernon, founder of The McKernon Group Inc., is retiring from his long time position as owner/CEO of the Brandon-based business. The McKernon Group is an environmentally responsible design/build company that specializes in a wide variety of construction.

Rutland Regional Medical Center is pleased to extend a warm welcome to Ethan Flynn, MD, who joins the outstanding group of physicians and other staff members in the hospital’s Pathology Lab.

The Vermont Consultants Network (VCN) announces the election of the following members to its Executive Committee for the 2011-2012 fiscal year:

President – Bob Uerz

Treasurer – Terry Stone

Members-at-large – Michael Gadue, Maggie Grow, and Connie Livingston

Rick Milliken, General Manager of the DoubleTree by Hilton Burlington has announced that Sarah Salomon has been promoted to Front Office Manager. She oversees all Front Desk operations including maintaining a high quality of guest service and standards, scheduling and training of staff, monitoring room reservations, rate, and availability of rooms, and preparation of departmental reports.

The Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC), a national nonprofit that promotes biomass for efficient community-scale energy applications, is pleased to announce that it has named Brenda Quiroz Maday as its new executive director.

Keller Williams Realty is pleased to announce that Jim Chamberlin owner of Chamberlin Real Estate has merged with Keller Williams Realty Green Mountain Properties as an agent partner. Jim closed 44 transactions in 2010 and brings with him over $9,000,000.00 in active listings.

Heritage Aviation announced that Mr. Rheal Gagnon has been promoted to Vice President of FBO Services. The announcement was made by Mr. Christopher Hill, President of Heritage Aviation.

Sarah Hergenrother, Realtor at Keller Williams Realty Green Mountain Properties was recently featured on Realtor.com. In this article, Hergenrother discusses how she got into real estate, challenges in the local market and how technology has changed the real estate industry.

To read the story on Realtor.com, go to

Seven community members have joined the Board of Directors of the non‐profit

(pending) organization of the Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts (VTica) set to open in the fall in

downtown Chester. A first floor gallery, exhibition and performing arts space is being developed in a

turn‐of‐the‐century building on Depot Street off Rte. 11.

Dr. Nicole Mombell, who received her doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University in May 2011, has been named Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Saint Michael's College, starting this month with the fall semester.