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Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel received the Hamilton Carhartt Retailer of Excellence award as one of four top-selling retail partners in the United States for 2012.

Carhartt CEO Mark Valade and VP of Sales Steve Carter presented Lenny, Mark and Todd McCarthy with the award Thursday evening at Lenny’s Williston store.

Shadde Rosenblum, AICP, an expert in transportation planning, has joined RSG (Resource Systems Group, Inc.) as a senior consultant within RSG’s Transportation Policy, Planning, and Engineering practice. Mr.

Mobius is proud to announce the hiring of Burlington resident Chad Butt as its new executive director. Prior to joining Mobius, Butt worked as the Senior Programs Director for The DREAM Program in Boston, helping lead its mentoring expansion efforts from Vermont into Massachusetts.

The University of Vermont will name the Medical Education Center at the College of Medicine for alumnus and Burlington native Robert Larner, MD, and Helen Larner, for their decades-long efforts to make medical education more affordable for a generation of students, and for inspiring the support of more than 1700 donors.

Johnson State College senior Shane Bouthillette, who has lobbied the Vermont Legislature over the past couple years to increase state funding for higher education, has been appointed by Gov. Peter Shumlin to a two-year term on the Governor’s Veterans Advisory Council.

DeWolfe Morrow, rising senior at Burlington College took first place at The Creative Minds Filmmaker Institute in Cannes short film competition. The film also received Best Script, Best Editing and Best Actor.

"My inspiration for the film was to convey the notion that everyone is created equal, regardless of their status," says Morrow.

The Burlington Business Association (BBA) recently welcomed four new members to its Board of Directors. Richard Deane of TruexCullins Architecture, David Farrell of Farrell’s Distributing, Stephanie Miller Reiskin of R.E.M. Development, and David Provost of Champlain College officially joined the board last month at the BBA’s 35th annual dinner celebration.

Colin McCreight M.D. has joined the Central Vermont Medical Center Hospitalist team. He worked for the past three and one half years at the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. There he provided full-spectrum outpatient and inpatient care to pediatric and adult patients.

Northwestern Medical Center is pleased that Dr. Stephen Gorman has begun offering pulmonology services through Northwestern Pulmonology.

Pale Morning Media today announced the addition of account manager Patrick Brown, strengthening the agency’s growing expertise in snowsports retail, resort marketing and strategic communications.

Southern Vermont College student-members of Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) raised $1,200 which was presented to the Cancer Center at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC). The money was used to purchase two television sets and gift cards for items to be used in the Center’s garden and for patients.

Norwich University carillonneur George Matthew Jr. will perform a free recital of American composer John Cage’s compositions for the carillon on the Upper Parade Ground on Saturday, June 22, at 1 p.m.

Cage, one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century, was a leading figure of the post-war avant-garde.