Do you know who owns your beer? After a year of organization, planning, and home-brewing beer, the members of Full Barrel Cooperative Brewery & Taproom are one step closer to making the answer to be “you.” On Sunday, March 1st, member-owners gathered in Burlington and voted to approve the brewery’s first bylaws, elect a board of directors, and select the brand’s first logo.
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North Country Angels, Inc. (NCA), Vermont’s only angel investment group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ken Merritt as Managing Director and Scott Gale and Dan Pflaster as Directors.
KSV, the Burlington-based marketing firm, has hired Brent Sitterly to the new position of analytics manager.
Sitterly brings a wealth of diverse experiences to KSV, having served as a performance analyst at Dealer.com, a fixed-income quantitative analyst at Dwight Asset Management, and information technician in the United States Navy.
The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) presented Citizens Financial Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Van Saun with a 2015 Corporate Social Responsibility Award last Thursday at its annual dinner in New York City. The Corporate Social Responsibility Award is given to an individual or corporation for demonstrating exceptional corporate citizenship.
Adam Hergenrother, Operating Principal of KW Vermont and CEO of Universal Properties Network (UPN), was honored to receive recognition for blazing the trail for real estate expansion (opening teams outside of a Realtor's core market area) at the annual Keller Williams Realty Family Reunion Awards Lunch in Orlando in early February.
Governor Peter Shumlin has appointed Randy Amis of Burlington to chair the Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) Board of Commissioners.
Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty, a real estate firm with 22 offices throughout Vermont and New Hampshire, recently participated in an orientation conference held for companies that have recently joined the Sotheby’s International Realty® network of residential real estate brokerages.
The Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers is located at an interesting nexus, where the working lands economy meets Vermont’s craft heritage. A registered 501c6 non-profit organization, the Guild (GVFM) is comprised of twenty-six makers dedicated to the promotion of quality craftsmanship, excellence in design, and the pursuit of artistic vision in the field of furniture making.
Bristol Financial Services, P.C., of Bristol, Vermont, has announced the addition of Kris Pearsall as their new Inside Sales Assistant. Kris has been with Bristol since 2013, but just recently obtained her series 7 and 63. She steps up to join Shawn Oxford and Fred Baser in offering their clients exceptional customer service and assisting clients with their financial objectives.
Steven Jupiter has announced the opening of his new gallery, named the Steven Jupiter Gallery, on April 3, 2015, with an opening reception to be held on May 8. Located at 4 Frog Hollow Alley in Middlebury, the gallery will showcase Steven’s work in photography and watercolor. The Steven Jupiter Gallery is a new member of the Addison County Chamber of Commerce.
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital has announced that Craig Rinder, MD, will join BMH Physician Group, effective March 2, 2015.
Freeman French Freeman, a full-service architecture, planning, and interior design firm based in Burlington, Vermont, welcomes Josh Crandall as intern architect. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Josh brings a decade of design experience working for firms in Maine, Virginia, North Carolina and Vermont.