NONPROFITS
Johanna L. Beliveau, president and CEO of Visiting Nurse and Hospice of VT and NH, and attorney Talesha Saint-Marc, shareholder with Bernstein Shur, have been named co-chairs of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign in New Hampshire. The statewide, signature event will be held virtually on Feb. 18. Erin Fehlau of “News 9 Daybreak” and host of “NH Chronicle” on WMUR-TV will emcee the program.
Canterbury Shaker Village has been awarded a $60,000, three-year grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to help further the village’s mission to preserve the 200-year legacy of the Canterbury Shakers, and to provide a place for learning, reflection and renewal.
The Merrimack County Savings Bank Foundation has awarded $59,033 to 22 nonprofits serving local communities: Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua; Bridges Domestic and Sexual Violence and Support Services, Nashua; Brigid’s House of Hope, Concord; Concord Hospital; Community Bridges, Concord; Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA); Easterseals NH, Manchester; The Friendly Kitchen, Concord; Front Door Agency, Nashua; Harbor Homes, Nashua; NAMI NH, Concord; Nashua Police Athletic League; NH Humanities, Concord; NHTI Community College, Concord; Northeast Organic Farming Association of NH, Concord; Penacook Community Center; Pine Haven Boys Center, Allenstown; Pittsfield Youth Workshop; SEE Science Center, Manchester; Special Olympics NH, Manchester; Step Up Parents, Portsmouth; and the YMCA of Greater Nashua.
Merrimack County Savings Bank has purchased $10,000 in tax credits through the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority in support of the Currier Museum of Art. The investment contributes to the Currier’s artist-in-residence program, “Artists in the Community, Revitalizing a Manchester Neighborhood,” which includes the purchase of a Victorian house on 647 Beech Street in Manchester to house visiting artists.
Eight community groups were recently presented with a $500 donation from Franklin Savings Bank in recognition of the holiday season: Twin Rivers Interfaith Food Pantry and Pemi Youth Center, both of Franklin; Open Door Community Kitchen, Penacook; Bristol Community Services; Tilton-Northfield Christmas Fund; Goffstown Network; Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction; and United Way of Greater Nashua.
TFMoran recently presented a total of $3,000 to two organizations that address hunger in New Hampshire. On Dec. 8, the firm’s Bedford office donated $2,000 to the New Hampshire Food Bank, and on Dec. 9, TFMoran’s Portsmouth office staff presented a $1,000 check to the Seacoast food pantry Gather.
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust has made a $7,500 contribution to NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire in support of West Side RENEW, an initiative to redevelop and preserve properties in significant decline or in need of capital improvements on Manchester’s West Side.
The bank’s contribution supports the second phase of the initiative, which is the redevelopment of apartments on Douglas Street in Manchester.
City Year New Hampshire has announced the appointment of three new members to its board of advisors: Roy Ballentine, founder and chair of wealth management firm Ballentine Partners; Kate Vaughn, an in-house legal counsel at RiverStone Group; and Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, an assistant professor at the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at University of Massachusetts Boston.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology Education Concepts Inc., a provider of designto-manufacturing solutions for schools and local industry, has installed BSE Air Treatment Systems with NPBI technology at Constantly Pizza’s two restaurant locations in Concord and Penacook. The wallmounted systems use needlepoint bipolar ionization technology to mitigate pathogens and contaminates.
Xcelerate, a programmatic recruiting software solution developed by Lebanonbased Appcast, has been named a winner in the 2021 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group. Launched in May 2020, Xcelerate distributes job ads to a network of more than 10,000 job sites and helps ensure that employers’ job ads attract hirable candidates for their open jobs, Appcast said.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Deadline to submit nominations for the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce’s 2020 Citizen of the Year Award is Friday, Feb. 5. The recipient will receive the award at the chamber’s virtual 101st Annual Meeting & Citizen of the Year Award celebration presented by Merrimack County Savings Bank on March 30.
For more information, contact the chamber at 603-224-2508 or info@concordnhchamber.com.
The New Hampshire Society of Certified Public Accountants has renamed its scholarship program, which is aimed at supporting accounting and business students in New Hampshire, to James A. Shanahan Jr. Scholarship. Shanahan, of Manchester, retired in 1988 and gave many years to the NH Society of CPAs, including as president. The first Scholarship winner was Isabella Edwards, a student at Oyster River High School.
Associated General Contractors of New Hampshire has named two new members to its board: Adam Towne of DBU Construction and Tim Reid of Hutter Construction.
ACCOUNTING
Demetrios “James” Mitkonis has been promoted to be a senior manager at regional accounting firm Nathan Wechsler & Company.
CONSTRUCTION
Paugus Properties LLC, owned by developer Scott Everett, has selected Bonnette, Page & Stone Corp. of Laconia to manage construction of the next phase of 1 Elm, the Lakeport revitalization effort. Construction will begin early this year with anticipated completion in 2022. Bonnette, Page & Stone will work directly with Paugus Properties’ construction project manager, Mike Lokken.
Al Terry Plumbing & Heating, Hooksett, has hired plumbing and HVAC specialists Daniel Desrosiers, who has 25 years of experience in the HVAC construction industry, and Cody Berthiaume, who has been in the commercial plumbing and HVAC industry for seven years.
Chase Pennoyer, who joined Concord-based Resilient Buildings Group Inc. in 2016, has been promoted to vice president of operations.
ARTS
AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, has named Samantha Eckert as exhibition manager. She has been working in AVA’s exhibition program as its interim exhibition manager and assumed her new position on Jan. 4.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust has opened its new full-service branch at 3 Kilton Rd., Bedford. The 2,236-squarefoot building was designed by JD Design Associates. Construction was completed by Sullivan Construction.
Indianapolis, Ind.-based Proteus, an alternative investments and private funds platform, has begun providing high-net-worth investors of Baldwin & Clarke Advisory Services, Bedford. Through the partnership, Baldwin & Clarke’s offerings will include alternative asset classes, such as private credit, private equity, real estate, hedge funds and real assets in client portfolios.
New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp has announced the promotion of Aimee King to assistant vice president, enterprise project manager.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
The New Hampshire Tree Farm Program has named Charles and Mabel Niebling of Boscawen as the 2021 Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year. The Nieblings purchased their 67-acre tree farm in 2001; it has been under a written forest management plan since 2003. The plan focuses on maintaining and improving the overall quality of timber and forest products, protecting water quality of wetlands and riparian zones, creating a diversity of wildlife habitats for game and nongame species while conserving native plant species, and providing a recreational resource to enjoy the property for hiking, bird-watching, hunting, snowmobiling and horseback riding.
Specialty foods producer Little Big Farm Foods of Portsmouth has added 15 new items to its brand of baking mixes, including Classic Scone, Chocolate Chip Scone, Cranberry Orange Scone, Multigrain Muffin, Cinnamon Sugar Doughnut, Carrot Cake Muffin and Gingerbread Pancake & Waffle. Also added to the line is a Sugar Cookie Mix and a Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Mix.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Casella Waste Systems Inc. has named Shelby Wright as its manager of engagement in the company’s eastern region. Wright will focus on strengthening existing relationships and building new partnerships with a variety of stakeholders throughout Maine and New Hampshire, said John Casella, chairman and CEO of the Rutland, Vt.-based firm.
EDUCATION
LNA Health Careers has opened its newest location on Washington Street in Dover. It offers training people pursuing a health career, with courses in phlebotomy and IV therapy, among others.
Manchester-based CCA Global’s University training program and curriculum have been recognized as among the top 100 nationwide with a 2021 Training Top 100 designation, awarded by Training magazine.
Southern New Hampshire University has appointed John Jibilian as executive vice president and chief digital officer. He previously worked at Deloitte, where he led the Digital Higher Education practice for the past seven years.
Rivier University has added four new members to its board of trustees: Douglas Barker of Nashua, treasurer of The Barker Foundation; Joseph Bellavance IV of Nashua, president of Bellavance Beverage Company; Keeva Davis of Nashua, a federal project officer specializing in workforce development for the U.S.
Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration; and Dr. Marie Elizabeth Ramas of Hollis, medical director at GateHouse Treatment, an addiction treatment center in Nashua.
LAW
Teresa Rosenberger, a longtime government relations advocate in New Hampshire, has joined Bernstein Shur. During her 30-year career in lobbying, public policy and communications, Rosenberger has been involved at the national, state and local level, including in the executive branch of the federal government, a national healthcare association and a national weekly magazine. She also served for several years as FairPoint Communications’ president for New Hampshire.
Attorney Brian J. Bouchard of Sheehan Phinney has been elected as a firm shareholder. Bouchard, who currently works out the firm’s Manchester office, will be located in its newly opened Portsmouth office.
Drummond Woodsum has promoted seven of its associate attorneys — Adam Cote, Michael-Corey Hinton, Jeana McCormick, Kasia Park, Aga Dixon, Matthew Decker and Meghan Glynn — to shareholders of the firm and promoted government relations, organizational development and campaigns consultant Toby McGrath to the role of senior consultant.
GOVERNMENT
The town of Swanzey has announced that Joseph DiRusso of Swanzey has been hired as its new director of public works. He has been serving as interim director since Glenn Smith resigned from the position in November to take a similar position in Fitzwilliam.
Construction will begin shortly on a new 13,000-square-foot NH Liquor & Wine Outlet at 850 Gold St., Manchester, off South Willow Street. It is slated to open by the end of 2021.
ENGINEERING
Nicholas Golon of Bedford has become a principal of Bedfordbased TFMoran. Golon, who joined TFMoran’s civil engineering department in July 2006, is a licensed Professional Engineer in New Hampshire and Maine.
HEALTHCARE
Dartmouth-Hitchcock has added three new public trustees and two new physician trustees to its board of trustees: Geraldine “Polly” Bednash, former chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; Dr. Robert S.D. Higgins, surgeonin-chief of the John Hopkins Hospital; Dr. Gary L. Freed, a plastic surgeon at Dartmouth- Hitchcock and an assistant professor of surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Thomas P. Glynn, CEO of the Massachusetts Port Authority; and Dr. Carl “Trey” Dobson, an emergency medicine physician with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians.
The Norris Cotton Cancer Center is opening two new specialty clinics, NeuroOncology and Gynecologic Oncology, at its Dartmouth-Hitchcock location at the Catholic Medical Center’s Notre Dame Pavilion in Manchester. Oncologists in the clinics bring focused expertise for a particular cancer diagnosis — even the rarest — to patients, the center said.
REAL ESTATE
Tom Dickson has announced the lease of 2,000 square feet at 53 Goffstown Rd., Manchester, to Small Business Computer of New England. Dickson represented the landlord, Allegiant Trust, and Aron Brown of NAI Norwood assisted the tenant in the transaction. Dickson also was involved in the lease of 7,200 square feet at 35 Londonderry Turnpike, Hooksett, by New Perspectives. He represented the landlord, SNOPL LLC of Portsmouth, and John Jackman of Jackman Commercial Realty Inc. assisted the tenant in the transaction.
Mike Reed, president of Stebbins Commercial Properties, has announced the sale of a 35,000-square-foot office/warehouse building at 305 Massabesic St. Reed represented the Seller, Ty-Flot Inc., and assisted the buyer, Tokena Corp., in the transaction. According to the Registry of Deeds, the sale price was $2.6 million.
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