Vermont author John Caruso received two coveted awards from the 2013 New York Book Festival, on June 21st in New York City. Caruso’s self-published young adult novel Hard Magic garnered a second-place award while his first novel, Lightbearer, took top honors in the Wild Card category.
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Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) has hired Katie Titterton as its Communications Director. Titterton will manage and strengthen CLiF’s public relations and overall communications as well as the organization’s corporate and donor outreach. Before moving to Vermont in 2008, Titterton worked in the marketing department of non-profit publisher Beacon Press.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock has appointed Terry Carroll as its new Chief Innovation Officer.
PayData Payroll Services, Inc., is a locally owned and operated Vermont company, providing efficient and affordable Payroll, Time Clock and HR Management Services to employers throughout northern New England since 1987.
Environmental Compliance Services, Inc. (ECS) announces Kyle M. Wells has joined its Waterbury, VT office as a Field Technician II.
Ledyard National Bank has announced that Kevin De Rosa, Assistant Vice President and Norwich Banking Office Manager, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Greater Claremont Chamber of Commerce, as Treasurer. It is a two year term.
Governor Peter Shumlin has appointed Ariel Wengroff of Burlington to serve on the Vermont Commission on Women.
Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (commonly known as juvenile diabetes) when she was nine years old, Monika Onusseit's life was forever changed. She was forced to meet the challenges of living with diabetes at a young age, but the disease also helped shape her future. She is now the newest pharmacist at North Country Hospital in part because of her childhood diagnosis.
Two Vermont state employees were honored at the 2013 Environmental Merit Awards ceremony of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Often described as an art and a science, nursing is a profession that embraces dedicated people with varied interests, strengths and passions because of the many opportunities the profession offers.
A 1952 alumnus of the University of Vermont College of Medicine and his family have established a $1 million endowed fund at the university to support the work of the Vermont Cancer Center at UVM and Fletcher Allen Health Care.