Five long-time employees of Community National Bank — Justin Bourgeois, Jennifer Daigle, Beth Morin, Kelly Paul and Kimico Perry — have been promoted to senior vice president for their demonstrated commitment to the bank, its customers and its employees, President and CEO Kathy Austin announced.
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Former Champlain Housing Trust CEO Brenda Torpy, former Vermont Housing Finance Agency Executive Director Sarah Carpenter and NOTCH Executive Director Pam Parsons will be honored by the Vermont Council on Rural Development at the organization's 2022 Vermont Community Leadership Summit Aug 10 at Vermont Technical College in Randolph.
Ledyard National Bank CEO Kathy Underwood was recently elected to the board of directors of Florida-based TCM Bank, a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard.
Anne Farley of Wolcott has joined the social-service nonprofit HomeShare Vermont as a case manager. In this role, Farley will work to match people looking for a place to live with homeowners in Lamoille, Orange and Washington counties who are seeking a housemate to provide some rental income and/or help around the house.
Gifford Health Care recently welcomed Brigid Meehan-Brese to its team of primary-care providers. Meehan-Brese, who comes to Gifford after spending nearly four years at Springfield Hospital in Vermont, will be seeing patients at Gifford’s Rochester Health Center.
The Snelling Center for Government celebrated the graduation of the following students of the Vermont Leadership Institute at ceremonies at Basin Harbor in Vergennes in early June:
The VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region, one of the state’s largest providers of skilled home health and hospice services, recognized hospice nurse Richard Marantz and executive assistant Sharon Cseh as clinical and nonclinical employees of the quarter, respectively.
Ayeshah Raftery of Colchester and Charlie Dayton of Burlington have joined the donor relations team at United Way of Northwest Vermont.
Larry Bissonnette of Williston and Jarvis Green of White River Junction have been named winners of the 2022 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the state's highest honor bestowed on an artist.
Sarah Kearns of Middlebury has been selected as the 2022 State Star of the Vermont Small Business Development Center. The award, bestowed annually and recognized nationally, celebrates a member of the organization’s team for exceptional commitment to small business success.
Jim Szabo and Alyssa Stewart took home top honors at the Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 65th annual meeting held at Off the Rails in Ludlow in late July.
Sideeq Heard, an emerging multihyphenate theater artist with national and international experience, has been named the inaugural associate artistic director at JAG Productions, a Vermont- and New York City-based theater company centering on Black and Black queer storytelling.