Myra Peffer, Executive Director and Susanne Engels, President of the Board of Directors of Wonderfeet Kids Museum cut the ribbon at the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting ceremony for the Grand Opening of Wonderfeet Kids Museum. The museum is located at 11 Center St. in downtown Rutland.
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Vermont Tech has announced that a team comprised of Alyshia Jones from Randolph, VT, David Cacciamani from Hyde Park, VT and William A. Moore IV of Milton, VT placed first in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Structural Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Student Design Competition.
The Burlington Business Association (BBA) has appointed Richard Deane of TruexCullins Architecture as the new Chair of the Board of Directors. Richard Deane officially took over the seat of Chair last month at the BBA’s 37th annual dinner celebration with the ceremonial handing over of the gavel by retiring Chair, Tom Brassard.
The Vermont National Guard announced that General Frank Grass, Chief of the National Guard Bureau spent Saturday May 2, 2015 with the soldiers and airmen of the Vermont National Guard.
The Vermont Army National Guard received General Grass at and his official party at the 158th Fighter Wing recently.
Steve and Deb Mayfield, owners of the Shelburne Country Store, today announced the acquisition of The Christmas Loft located in Shelburne.
Andrew Hoak, PE, PG, has joined DuBois & King as a Manager of the firm’s Water Resources Department. Mr. Hoak is a hydrogeologist and an environmental engineer with 20 years of experience consulting on water quality, stormwater management, water and wastewater studies, and groundwater and soil remediation projects. Mr.
Four new members joined the ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, board of directors with terms effective April 1.
Sara Muyskens is former ECHO board chair and has been intimately involved since the organization's inception. Paul Sisson has also served on the board and is former planning and finance committee chair.
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced the 51st class of US Presidential Scholars, recognizing 141 high school seniors for their accomplishments in academics or the arts.
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin attended KidSafe Collaborative’s Annual Outstanding Service Awards and congratulated the honorees for their efforts to improve child safety and wellbeing, at a luncheon held April 16 at the Sheraton Burlington.
The 2015 Awards were presented to:
Press Forward PR announced the hire of Kathryn Flagg to the position of Sustainable Accounts Manager today. Flagg, a staff writer at the Vermont weekly Seven Days, will oversee press outreach and communication for Shacksbury Cider, a Shoreham, Vermont-based producer of dry, food-friendly ciders made with heirloom apples and traditional processes.
Dr. Andrew Erickson has joined Gifford Medical Center, adding a fourth provider to the hospital’s general surgery team. He most recently worked as a surgeon at a Mid Valley Hospital, a rural community hospital in Omak, Washington; and as a general and acute care surgeon at the Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, MD.
Michael Chilton, a senior microbiology major, and Colin Kamphuis, a sophomore political science and economics double-major, have been awarded prestigious Boren Scholarships. The David L. Boren Scholarship is a nationally competitive award that provides up to $20,000 for students to study a critical foreign language in a nontraditional country important to U.S. national security.