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Ledyard Financial Group is pleased to announce that Gregory D. Steverson has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer. Greg joined Ledyard in 2006 as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer.

His responsibilities include investor relations, finance, compliance, facilities, operations and information technology.

Four winners in Vermont were recognized at EPA’s 2015 Environmental Merit Awards ceremony. The environmental leaders were among 27 recipients across New England honored for helping to improve New England’s environment.

Twincraft Skincare has announced that Michael Ly has joined the company as its new CFO. Ly is excited to be affiliated with Twincraft for many reasons. “I was drawn to the company because of its strong leadership team, its culture and work environment.

Community College of Vermont has announced that associate dean for human and administrative resources Lisa Yaeger was nominated and endorsed to be the At Large member of the Eastern Region Board of CUPA-HR (Colleges and Universities Professional Association – Human Resources).

Sean Lord, of Natick, Mass., has been named the new senior development officer covering Vermont, New Jersey, metropolitan New York, western Florida and Texas.

Jill Read, a pediatric nurse practitioner at Castleton Family Health Center has been recognized as Vermont’s 2015 Childhood Immunization Champion by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Wanda Heading-Grant, UVM vice president for Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, is a recipient of a Diversity Visionary Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.

Norwich University will host documentary filmmaker Ben Kalina and screen his 2014 Sundance Film Festival winning documentary on climate change and coastal communities, “Shored Up: When Human Nature and the Force of Nature Collide,” on Monday, April 20 at 7 p.m.

Jan K. Carney, M.D., M.P.H., FACP, professor of medicine and associate dean for public health at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, will take on two new leadership roles in the next several months.

Jessica MacLeod, MSN, BSN, BA, adult and gerontology nurse practitioner and Barbara (Bobbie) Grothe-Penney, APRN recently joined nurse practitioner Amy Brewer, at University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center’s Woodridge Rehabilitation and Nursing in Berlin, Vermont.

Okemo Mountain School welcomes Julia Ford, member of the 2014 U.S. Olympic Alpine Ski Team, to its Board of Directors. Ford’s roots are grounded in Vermont and Okemo Mountain Resort where she learned to ski and later attended Okemo Mountain School.

More than 100 Gifford Medical Center employees raised $505 for the March of Dimes by wearing “Blue Jeans for Babies” to work on Friday, March 20, 2015.