BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Peter MacCallum, owner
of MacCallum’s Boathouse Inc. in Epsom, has been elected president of
the New Hampshire Marine Trades Association, Concord, and John Whalley, general
manager of Silver Sands Marina in Gilford, will serve as the group’s
vice president. The association promotes issues supporting the marine
industry, boating safety and maintaining the health of the waterways
that support marine activities.
Alex Ray of The Common Man Family of Restaurants and the Meredith Rotary Club were
honored recently by the Meredith Area Chamber of Commerce with the
organization’s annual Citizenship Awards. They were recognized for the
roles they played in distributing masks to citizens in New Hampshire
when there was a shortage. In addition, the chamber presented its
Community Pride Award to the No Fair Food Drive, Ken Choice of Ellacoya Barn and Grille, Kaylon Sweet of Osteria Poggio, the Meredith Food Pantry and Meredith Got Lunch. Also, a special recognition was awarded to Meredith Village Savings Bank.
The New Hampshire Bar Association said
it is preparing an October 2021 return of its Leadership Academy
program for younger attorneys. The program seeks participants who see
law as a calling and who thrive on challenges. Application deadlines
will be announced at a later date. To learn more, visit nhbar.org.
ENGINEERING
Environmental permitting specialist Jay Aube has
joined the Seacoast Division of TFMoran. His 20 years of experience
includes 12 years in the public sector as an employee of the New
Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.
Boston-based BSC Group, a
longtime provider of engineering, planning, environmental and land
surveying services, has opened a new office in Manchester. Lee Curtis, a
BSC Group principal, heads up the office, which is located in the
Manchester Millyard.
Concord-based Quantum Construction Consultants, a municipal engineering firm, has hired Samuel Cheney as project engineer.
BUSINESS AND CONSUMER SERVICES
Polaris Direct, Hooksett,
has added Jill McIntire to its team as traffic coordinator, Chris
Ruocco as account coordinator and Olivia Cattabriga as strategic
marketing services junior graphic designer.
Work Opportunities Unlimited and Leddy Group, Dover, have announced the promotion of Todd Robertson to vice president of information technology.
Robertson joined the organization in August 2016 as director of IT.
Limoncello producer Fabrizia Spirits, Salem, has launched the Fabrizia Lemon Baking Company, offering
traditional Italian limoncello cookies made with the company’s
award-winning limoncello. The cookies are made with all-natural
ingredients, including real cane sugar, butter, eggs, and plenty of
lemon zest and Fabrizia Limoncello. Fabrizia said it will be donating $1
for every package of cookies sold to Feeding America, which provides
meals to more than 200 food banks across the country.
LAW
Shaheen & Gordon has announced that Emma Stilson has joined the firm as an associate attorney in the Trusts, Estates & Guardianships practice group.
She will work out of the firm’s Dover office.
CONSTRUCTION
Kristin O’Brien, who
has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience, has joined
Bonnette Page & Stone of Laconia as director of marketing, a newly
created position. In addition, Matt Angell has joined the firm as an estimator, and Tim Buckley was recently named the company’s accountant.
Sean Scales has
joined Brookstone Builders Inc., Manchester, as an assistant project
manager. Before joining Brookstone Builders, he was a commercial airline
pilot.
North Branch Construction, Concord,
has begun work on renovations to two properties in Manchester owned by
Families in Transition-New Horizons. The renovations, made possible by
funds received through the CARES Act, will allow FIT-NH to respond
more effectively to operational limitations due to the Covid-19
pandemic and provide assistance for food insecurity and homelessness in
the future, officials said.
Construction is well underway on Lloyd’s Hills Apartments, a new four-building complex at 2506 Main St. in Bethlehem that will feature 28 two- and three-bedroom units.
Completion
is scheduled for February 2021, according to Littletonbased affordable
housing organization AHEAD, owner and manager of the project.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
The Rowley Agency Inc., Concord, has hired CPA Holly O’Connor as
controller. She succeeds Bruce Langley, who recently retired from the
insurance agency after 36 years, serving as treasurer and partner. She
most recently was project management advisory manager at
Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Boston.
David Cronin of Madison has been promoted to executive vice president and chief human resources officer at New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp.
He most recently was human resources director for NHMB.
ENERGY
Norwich Technologies Inc., White River Junction, Vt., has launched a new division, RunTime Solar, which provides operations and maintenance services to solar energy projects across New England. The division will be headed by Dan Kinney as general manager.
ACCOUNTING
Nathan Wechsler & Company has announced the addition of Duncan Rae to its professional team as an associate.
GOVERNMENT
The New Hampshire Liquor Commission
has been recognized as the best liquor and wine control state in the
country by State-Ways Magazine for the second time in the annual Control
State Best Practices Awards.
StateWays noted NHLC’s
technological innovation, nonprofit support, sales and promotions, and
its commitment to consumer education.
The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada has once again awarded the city of Dover’s Finance Department a certificate of achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting.
MANUFACTURING
Len-Tex Corp., North
Walpole, has become the first wallcovering manufacturer to acquire the
GreenCircle Certification, a third-party certification providing
independent verification of sustainability claims for water and energy
reduction, bio-based content and waste generation. The certification is
recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council, and certified products
are accepted for LEED credit.
HEALTHCARE
Curtis Lancaster, vice
president of supply chain at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, has
been elected to serve as a provider representative on the Association
for Health Care Resource & Materials Management’s board of
directors. AHRMM has more than 4,200 members nationally and worldwide.
Alan Owens, engineering
operations manager at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, has become a
senior member of the American Society for Health Care Engineering,
giving him the SASHE designation. Owens has been a member of ASHE since
2013.
Carissa Hodgdon, a
clinical nurse in the intensive care nursery at Children’s Hospital at
Dartmouth-Hitchcock, has won the New Hampshire Nurses Association’s
Rising Star Award, which honors a nurse who has been in the field of
nursing for less than five years, has contributed to the profession and
has demonstrated significant potential as a leader and advocate.
The New Hampshire Health Facilities Administration has deemed Cedarcrest Center for Children with Disabilities, Keene,
as deficiencyfree for the third year in a row. The agency’s life
safety inspector found the facility in excellent condition and in
compliance with all life safety standards.
Dr. Mark A. Creager, director
of the Heart and Vascular Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center, has won the 2020 Gold Heart Award, the American Heart
Association’s highest volunteer honor. It is presented to a volunteer
whose contributions of time and talent have transformed communities and
advanced the AHA mission nationally.
Memorial Hospital, North
Conway, has received a three-year grant from the Administration for
Community Living that is aimed at supporting Mt. Washington Valley
agencies assisting residents and their families living with dementia or
Alzheimer’s disease or caring for a loved one with dementia or
Alzheimer’s. Partners in the effort include: MaineHealth Partnership for Healthy Aging, Mount Washington Valley Adult Day Center, The Gibson Center for Senior Services, and Visiting Nurse Home Care & Hospice of Carroll County.
TRANSPORTATION
C&J Bus Lines will
begin operations on Nov. 15 at its new transportation center in
Seabrook. The companyowned facility, under construction since the start
of the year, features a new bus terminal and over 800 parking spaces.
C&J will provide nonstop motor-coach service to Boston South Station
and Logan International Airport, and direct service to New York City
from this location.
TECHNOLOGY
Senet Inc., a
Portsmouth-based provider of cloud-based software and services
platforms for connectivity and networks related to the internet of
things, has introduced a full suite of radio access network planning
and management tools to support deployment of commercial LoRaWAN
(low-power wide-area network) solutions that the company says will
allow network operators, tower companies, municipalities, building
owners and solution providers to design, deploy and manage
carrier-grade, indoor and outdoor Lo-RaWAN networks.
NONPROFITS
The YMCA of Greater Nashua has announced that Joy Devins and Camille Pattison have
joined the Y’s board of directors. Devins is chief of strategy at
Atrium Innovations, and Pattison is transit administrator for the City
of Nashua’s transit system. They both reside in Nashua.
Girls Inc. of New Hampshire has
launched a new fundraiser to help the organization raise money while
adhering to social-distancing guidelines: The Strong, Smart & Bold
Car Raffle. Some 1,000 tickets will be available for purchase at $100
each, and three winners will be selected for the raffle. The grandprize
winner can choose either a 2021 Chili Red Mini Cooper or $20,000; the
second-place winner will receive a 2020 Honda Super Cub motorcycle; and
the third-place winner will receive the newest Apple Watch. Tickets
must be purchased by November 30 at 12 p.m. at bit.ly/GINHCARRAFFLE.
Dan Hebert of
Hillsboro, founder of New Hampshire Jumpstart Coalition for Personal
Financial Literacy, has been recognized as a 2020 Myra Kraft Community
MVP Award winner by the Kraft family and the New England Patriots
Foundation. The foundation will make a $10,000 donation to New Hampshire
Jumpstart, which Hebert founded 20 years ago. As president, he leads
all of the programming efforts, which provide financial education to
people of all ages.
Dan Fraser of
White River Junction, Vt., owner of Dan and Whit’s Country Store, has
joined Waypoint’s Upper Valley regional board of directors.
REAL ESTATE
The
city of Concord and The Caleb Group, a nonprofit affordable housing
organization based in Swampscott, Mass., have opened the first phase of Penacook Landing, 34
apartments at the Allied Leather Tannery property, a former
brownfields site. Some 31 of the apartments are affordable. Financing
help was provided by the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority, the
Community Development Block Grant program, Evernorth and Genesis
Community Loan Fund. Cheshire Builders, a Swanzey-based construction
company, was the builder. Caleb plans to develop the second and final
phase of the project with 20 additional units of housing in 2021,
dependent upon funding.
Two more people have joined the sales leadership team of Coldwell Banker Realty in New England. Peter Deely has
been appointed sales manager of the Coldwell Banker Realty office in
Portsmouth. He most recently was principal broker at Brick and Barn Real
Estate Group. In addition, Heather McAfee has been named sales
manager position at the Center Harbor office. She previously was sales
director at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate in Tilton.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
UScellular has hired Peter Richards as store manager at its 946 S. Willow St. location in Manchester. Previously, he was a general manager with Verizon Wireless.
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