The owners of Phoenix Books, an independent bookstore with locations in Essex, Burlington and Rutland, have purchased Chester's Misty Valley Books. Michael DeSanto and Renee Reiner met with Lynne and Bill Reed - who bought the Chester landmark in 2001 - for the closing recently.
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At its 2016 annual dinner on May 12th, the Lake Champlain Islands Economic Development Corporation awarded the Bullis Family Farm the Business of the Year award and David C. Carter the 2016 Community Service award. The event was held at Shore Acres Inn & Restaurant in North Hero.
University of Vermont College of Medicine Dean Frederick C. Morin III, M.D., and University of Vermont Medical Group President and CEO Claude Deschamps, M.D., have announced the appointment of Mazen A. Maktabi, M.B.B.Ch., as chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and health care service chief of anesthesiology at the UVM Medical Center, effective August 1, 2016.
SymQuest Group, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., recently announced the addition of Joel Henderson and Robert Loehmann to its Professional Services Team. Henderson and Loehmann join SymQuest as Systems Engineers.
Twinstate Technologies®, a Unified Communications and Collaboration, Cybersecurity and IT, and Building and Infrastructure solutions provider, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named CEO Devi Momot, CISSP®, GSLC®, GISP®, to its prestigious 2016 Women of the Channel list.
Mark Hamelin has joined VHB as senior landscape architect/land planner in the firm’s South Burlington, Vermont office. Hamelin will provide nationally-recognized design experience to VHB’s growing land planning and design practice in Vermont.
Raymond Lanza-Weil has joined the Vermont Community Loan Fund (VCLF), a nonprofit, mission-driven alternative lender and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), as Director of Business Programs. Lanza-Weil comes to the Loan Fund with extensive experience in both the nonprofit and commercial lending sectors.
Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS), Vermont’s second largest community mental-health agency, announced today that it has elected SallyAnn Silfies to its Board of Directors. The agency will look to Silfies for unique perspectives based on her decade of service as an HCRS employee.
Grace Cottage Hospital announces the appointment of two new board members, Ed Druke of Newfane to the Grace Cottage Hospital Board of Trustees, and Suzanne Welch of Grafton, to the Grace Cottage Foundation Board. Druke is no stranger to Grace Cottage; he was born there, as were his two sons.
University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) honored three nurses and two licensed nursing assistants during the 15th annual Rose Black Nursing Excellence Awards and LNA Excellence in Clinical Practice Awards.
Winooski Insurance has hired Lynette Loges as its newest Commercial Lines Assistant. Loges is " thrilled with the opportunity to join a team of people so dedicated to the provision of quality insurance and support ". Twenty-six years of management and human services experience in addition to eighteen years of property management assist Loges in her new role.
As more than 2,000 geriatrics experts prepare to converge on the West Coast to advance quality care for older adults, they will also toast the expanding professional breadth of geriatrics itself: Ellen Flaherty, PhD, APRN, AGSF, a member of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) for nearly two decades, will become the Society’s 63rd President at the start of the 2016 AGS Annual Scientific Meetin