The Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation held its 34th Annual Meeting recently at the Capitol Plaza. Approximately 120 local business leaders heard from four of the administration’s key economic development professionals.
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Sonja Molyneux, RN clinical manager for Bayada Hospice in Burlington, VT, has been appointed by the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association (HPNA) Board of Directors as the State Ambassador to the national HPNA Public Policy Committee.
The law firm of Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC, with offices in Burlington, Montpelier and St. Johnsbury, Vermont and Littleton, New Hampshire has announced that the following attorneys from the firm have been selected as 2011 New England Super Lawyers:
Leo Bisson- Professional Liability: Defense
Gregory Clayton - Business Litigation
Anne Cramer – Health Care
Place Creative Co. a Burlington based brand advertising and communication agency, has hired two new employees.
How does eating a Florida tomato in Vermont support migrant slavery? Investigative journalist Barry Estabrook will address that question in a talk titled “Slavery, Tomatoes & Social Justice on Your Plate” at Saint Michael's College on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center.
Thomas Lahiri, M.D., medical director of Pediatric Pulmonology at Vermont Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen and Associate Professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, has been selected to receive the D. Robert McCaffree Humanitarian Award from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the CHEST Foundation.
MyWebGrocer is pleased to announce nine new additions to their team. The new members join the departments of system analysts, account managers, digital advertising sales executives, and software engineers.
Dr. James N. Weinstein, President of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) Clinicand Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences. Membership in the IOM is considered the highest honor in the fields of health and medicine.
Dr. Steven Craig DuBoff of Rutland, VT earned Diplomate status within the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) on August 19, 2011. Dr. DuBoff is the first and only dentist in the state of Vermont to have received these credentials.
Larry Sudbay, President and Chief Executive Officer of SymQuest® Group, the region’s leading provider of network and document technology solutions and services, is pleased to announce the promotion of Lonnie King to Connectivity Engineer.
DuBois & King, Inc, consulting engineers announce that Peter C. Bero, P.E., has joined the firm’s Transportation Department as a Senior Bridge Engineer and Project Manager. Mr. Bero’s experience includes inspections, replacement, and rehabilitation of single and multiple span steel and concrete structures, as well as historic steel truss bridges. Mr.
Jeff LaBonte, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Special Olympics Vermont is pleased to welcome Andi Higbee to the Board. Andi is Burlington’s Deputy Police Chief and has been involved with Special Olympics Vermont for nearly two decades. He is a “celebrity” with many of the athletes and his personal commitment to the organization is a true asset.