Major General Douglas Stitt has been selected to speak at Norwich University's ROTC commissioning ceremony on April 30, school officials said. Stitt, a 1990 graduate of the university, currently serves as the Army's director of military personnel management. In February, he was nominated for promotion to lieutenant general.
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Peoples Trust Company, Franklin County’s only locally owned and operated bank, welcomed Patricia Boyce to its residential lending team. Boyce is a Vermont native with more than 30 years' experience in local banking, covering all aspects of residential lending.
Old Spokes Home in Burlington, a bike shop and nonprofit that promotes the benefits of biking, has hired Jon Copans as the organization’s new executive director. He succeeds Laura Jacoby, who oversaw the organization’s start as a nonprofit and served as executive director for five years before stepping down to spend time with family.
Kim Rupe, former communications and community engagement director at the Chamber and Economic Development of the Rutland Region, has joined the nonpartisan Vermont Council on Rural Development as its first development and communications associate.
Mercy Connections, a Burlington-based nonprofit that empowers people to make significant life changes through education, mentoring, entrepreneurship training and community, has added four new staff members to its team.
Frances Carr, professor of pharmacology at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and a member of the UVM Cancer Center, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Vermont State Police have announced the promotion of Sergeant Doug Norton from acting lieutenant and commander to lieutenant and station commander at the Rutland Field Station.
Omega Optical Holdings, a precision optics platform backed by Boston-based Artemis Capital Partners, announced that Mike Ransford has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer. Ransford joins OOH after recently retiring from IDEX Corporation, where he held various roles for IDEX Health and Sciences.
Multimedia journalist Olivia Lyons, former chief of WCAX-TV's Rutland bureau, has joined Chamber & Economic Development of the Rutland Region as communications and marketing manager.
Mike Hickey has joined the leadership team at Keller Williams Vermont as the company's new director of productivity.
Attorney Pamela Eaton has been elected as director and shareholder at the Burlington-based law firm Paul Frank + Collins. A graduate of George Washington University and Gonzaga Law School, Eaton joined PF+C’s litigation team as an associate attorney in 2015. Her practices focuses primarily on civil litigation and appeals.
Two Vermont engineers have been named tops in their profession for 2022 by the state's professional engineering societies.