David N McGinn, currently Interim Head of School at Thetford (Vt.) Academy, has been selected as St Johnsbury Academy’s new Athletic Director, SJA Headmaster Tom Lovett announced this week. McGinn will replace current Academy Athletic Director Tom Conte, who will retire at the end of this school year after serving in the post since 1995.
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Onion River Community Access Media (ORCA), Central Vermont’s largest Community Cable Television and Media center providing local, national and international news, entertainment and in depth political coverage, has recently undergone a restructuring of staff to better serve the individual interests and highlight the strength of their employees to better serve the 13, 300+ households in their thi
C2, also known as Competitive Computing, a technology consulting firm located in Colchester announced the addition of three new employees:
Katharine Bodan, Business Analyst, will lead process improvement and change management initiatives for the company. Most recently she worked for EMD Chemicals (affiliate of Merck KGaA). She is PMP certified and has an MBA from Temple University.
Secretary of State Jim Condos has accepted an appointment to a national task force on Business Identity Theft. The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) has announced the formation of a NASS Business Identity Theft Task Force to help states combat the growing threat of business identity theft.
Select Staffing has named the Mount Family Group Ltd. of Burlington its Franchise Business of the Year for 2010. The company operates Westaff franchises in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island and Remedy Intelligent Staffing franchises in Massachusetts and has revenues of approximately $26 million. Mount Family Group Ltd.
Jack Dodd of St. Albans recently joined Attacca Realty of South Burlington as a Residential Realtor servicing Chittenden and Franklin Counties. Jacks ten years of experience in commercial and rail road real estate transactions makes for a smooth transition to the residential market and offers his clients value skills in complex contracts and negotiations.
Saint Michael’s College associate professor of physics, Dr. Alain Brizard, learned this month that he will be the recipient of a grant from the Department of Energy for $33,000 each of the next three years to support his research. The funding comes from the DOE’s office of Fusion Energy Sciences of the Office of Science.
Don Rendall of Green Mountain Power Corporation and the President of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Chittenden County announced today that Martha Maksym of Grand Isle has been named the new Executive Director to succeed Gretchen Morse who announced her retirement effective June 30th.
South Burlington resident, Joe Halko, was recently reelected as President of the Franklin-Grand Isle United Way Board of Directors at their annual meeting held on April 14th in St. Albans. Mr. Halko has served on the United Way board for six years and was Vice President prior to becoming President last year.
Comcast, one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today announced that Wayne Rustin has been named Vice President of Human Resources for the company’s Western New England Region, which includes Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, New York and Vermont.
When Kerry Leavitt learned that the Speech and Language Pathology Department at North Country Hospital was in need of another speech and language pathologist she and her husband, Brock, couldn't believe it.
“He said 'you have got to apply for that,'” Kerry said. “My husband [a Burlington native] has been coming up here since he was a baby.” His family owns a camp on Lake Seymour.
Laurel Butler and Charles Ininger have joined VtSBDC’s state-wide team of business advisors as part of President Obama’s “Small Business Jobs Bill”. Vermont’s allocation of the “Jobs Bill” will fund additional support for start-up/pre-venture small business owners and nascent entrepreneurs for a period of two years through comprehensive technical assistance and training.