NONPROFITS
The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s board of directors recently elected its slate of 2021 officers: chair, Betsy MacNamara of Concord, a consultant with Full Circle Consulting; vice chair, Kathleen Reardon of New Boston, CEO of the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits; secretary, Kate Luczko of Manchester, president and CEO of the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce; vice secretary, Naomi Butterfield of Concord, legal counsel at The Mitchell Group; treasurer, Don Brueggemann of Concord, manager of The Works in Concord; and vice treasurer, Kim Capen of Goffstown, a restaurant consultant and resident-owned community leader.
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has made $4.155 million in grants through its Community Grants Program to support the operations of 88 nonprofits serving New Hampshire communities. Grants will help support struggling families, connect young people with lifechanging mentors, help people get dental care, defend the rights of immigrants and refugees, help the arts to flourish, boost our economy, protect natural resources, and more.
The New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation recently awarded $145,000 in grants to nine projects designed to improve children’s health: the New Hampshire Oral Health Coalition; the UNH Foundation; the Hillsborough Country Conservation District; Seacoast Eat Local; Cheshire County; Roots Association of Nashua; the UNH Carsey School of Public Policy; New Hampshire Hunger Solutions; and the NH Fiscal Policy Institute.
Sharon M. Wratchford of Rindge and Susan Wyckoff of Walpole have joined the board of directors of the Monadnock Humane Society. Wratchford is retired from a 30-year career in financial services, and Wyckoff has had a 35-year career in higher education.
Amanda Champagne has been promoted to executive director of family services at Spaulding Academy & Family Services, Northfield. The former residential services director, Champagne has been worked for the organization since 2000.
Merrimack County Savings Bank recently donated $10,000 to the Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association in support of a $25,000 matching grant from the Lodestar Foundation. The grant will offset expenses associated with the organization’s merger with Central NH Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice.
The Pearl Manor Fund Advisory Committee recently awarded nearly $300,000 to eight Manchester area nonprofits to support new and expanded projects and programs to provide assistance, comfort, care and treatment for the elderly population of the region.
Jan Raymond, executive vice president and chief lending officer of St. Mary’s Bank, has been honored with Daniel Webster Council’s 2020 Granite State Outstanding Women’s Leadership Award. The Council also bestowed Golden Doe awards to 29 women for going above and beyond in their scouting programs. The New Hampshire Electric Co-op Foundation awarded grants in December totaling $46,210 to 10 organizations throughout the state: Advice to the Players, Sandwich; Believe in Books Literacy Foundation, Intervale; Circle Program, Plymouth; Family Resource Center, Gorham; Kismet Rock Foundation, North Conway; Mayhew Program, Bristol; Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, Laconia; Salvation Army of Laconia; Town of Campton Park and Recreation Afterschool Program; and West Central Behavioral Health, Lebanon.
New Hampshire Jobs for America’s Graduates (NH-JAG), which serves youth who face significant academic, emotional and economic challenges, has achieved the national 5 of 5 Award, recognizing that the program has met or exceeded Jobs for America’s Graduates highest national performance standards. Through a combination of mentoring, employability, skills instruction and leadership development activities, JAG National has served more than 1.4 million students over the past 40 years.
Bank of America recently partnered with Easterseals to provide the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton with 50,000 disposable medical masks, 50 cases of hand sanitizer and 26,000 gloves. In November, a Covid-19 outbreak at the home infected 100 staff and 90 residents, resulting in 37 resident deaths.
The Meredith Village Savings Bank Fund at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has awarded $47,000 to 19 local nonprofit organizations, including 11 food pantries that serve the same communities as the bank, including Belknap House, Laconia; the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, Dover; Got Lunch, Ashland and Holderness; Hospice Help Foundation, Portsmouth; Lakes Region Food Pantry, Moultonborough; Patriot Resilient Leader Institute for Camp Resilience, Gilford; Step Up Parents, Portsmouth; and the Tuftonboro Historical Society.
CONSTRUCTION
North Branch Construction has begun work on a 6,900-square-foot pre-engineered steel building housing a testing and engineering range at the Sig Sauer Academy campus in Epping. Construction is expected to be complete by late spring 2021. Port One Architects of Portsmouth is providing architectural design services; Jones & Beach Engineers, Inc. is providing civil engineering services; and Trexler Engineering is the structural engineer for the project.
A virtual groundbreaking was recently held for expansion of the Peabody Home in downtown Franklin. The building was designed by EGA P.C. Engelberth Construction is building the facility, and the engineering work is being conducted by Nobis Engineering. Advisory work is being provided by RS Consulting and the Northern Community Investment Corp.
FINANCIAL
Joanne Tercho of Nashua has joined Bar Harbor Bank & Trust as vice president, portfolio manager. She has more than 20 years of experience in commercial banking, most recently as vice president/relationship manager at TD Bank.
BankProv has hired Kevin Finke as vice president, commercial lender. Finke most recently spent 12 years at Centrix Bank and Eastern Bank.
Digital Federal Credit Union has opened its newly relocated Hudson branch at 8 Flagstone Drive in the Flagstone Crossing Plaza. The newly built 5,000-square-foot branch is managed by Tammy McKenna.
Pam Hamlin, president of York Creative Collective, Manchester, and former Global CEO of Arnold Worldwide, has become an investment partner and advisor at Manchesterbased investment firm York IE. She will offer York IE’s portfolio companies management and marketing guidance.
Rebecca Regnet has joined Newburyport Bank as executive vice president, chief talent officer.
Jocelyn Theodore has been promoted to senior client services specialist at NHTrust.
LAW
Drummond Woodsum has promoted two associate attorneys in New Hampshire to shareholders of the firm: Meghan Glynn, a member of the School and Education Law Group, where she works with New Hampshire school districts; and Matthew Decker, a member of the firm’s Municipal Law Group.
The law firm of McLane Middleton has announced that attorneys Katelyn E. Burgess, Stephen R. Harris, Christina L. Krakoff and Wendy Li have been admitted to the New Hampshire State Bar. Burgess and Li are associates in the firm’s corporate department, and Harris and Krakoff are associates in McLane Middleton’s trusts and estates department. In addition, the firm has announced that Benjamin B. Folsom and Kimberly A. Kramer have been elected as directors.
Daniel J. Morris, director and former chair of the firm’s corporate department, has been named to McLane Middleton’s management committee.
HEALTHCARE
Maureen Simonds has joined the pharmacy team at Goodwin Community Health in Somersworth. She has worked for over 25 years in pharmacies in the Seacoast area.
Dr. George Culler has joined Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s neurology department in Lebanon. Culler’s focus is on epilepsy, and he will also be an instructor in neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Bowman Place, a new senior living community in Bedford, has named Julie Dowd Schaub of Francestown director of sales and marketing. Most recently, she was director of residency at The Elms Retirement Residence in Westerly, R.I.
Shannon Vera, business development manager for the Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire, has joined the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Next Generation Leadership Council for a two-year term.
Dr. Daniel Zipin has joined Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine as a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician.
ACCOUNTING
The Concord-based accounting firm of Nathan Wechsler & Company has announced the promotion of Melissa Biron to principal. A member of the firm since 2007, Biron works with clients in the nonprofit and manufacturing sectors.
REAL ESTATE
NAI Norwood Group has announced the sale of 30 Willand Drive in Somersworth to the city of Dover for $749,900. The 6,720-square-foot office/retail building was formerly owned and occupied by Mr. B’s TaeKwon Do. The city purchased the building to use as a regional emergency overnight walk-in warming center for the area’s homeless as part of a partnership between Strafford Country and the cities of Dover, Somersworth and Rochester.
The sale of 883-885 Second St., Manchester, has been announced by Andrew Robbins of Colliers International’s Manchester office. Robbins represented the seller, and Jay Lee of Berkshire Hathaway Verani represented the buyer, International Car Parts of NH, in the transaction. According to the Hillsborough County Registry of Deeds, the two-story, 2,604-square-foot retail building and adjacent 1,849-squarefoot, single-unit apartment building sold for $475,000.
Boston-based real estate advisory and investment firm Senne has acquired 577 Mast Rd., in Goffstown, a standalone 14,673-square-foot retail property currently occupied by Rite Aid under a long-term lease. The $8.65 million purchase was completed with a combination of syndicated private equity from multiple investors and long-term bank financing from Newburyport Bank, Newland Development Associates LLC, Horvath & Tremblay and First American Title, Senne said.
Homeowners at the Rancourt Mobile Home Park recently purchased their 38-unit, manufactured-home park, making it New Hampshire’s 134th resident-owned community, or ROC. Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH team, homeowners organized and formed Granite Estates Cooperative Inc. and then negotiated with the park’s owner, Claude Rancourt, a $1.85 million purchase price. The deal was finalized on Dec. 31 with a mortgage from the Community Loan Fund.
SurgCenter Development, a national developer of ambulatory surgical centers throughout the U.S., has announced plans to open a fourth facility in New Hampshire, at 2 Market Place in Hollis, in the spring. The 7,630-square-foot Lighthouse Surgical Suites will be SCD’s fourth development in New Hampshire.
Michael F. Reed, president of Stebbins Commercial Properties has announced the lease of 6,000 square feet at 700 Harvey Rd., Manchester, by Home of LEI of Manchester to Anchor Pest Services Inc., of Manchester. Reed represented the landlord and Laura Nesmith of Colliers International represented the tenant.
Kevin Shaw of Roche Realty Group, Laconia, has been recognized as the firm’s top producer for 2020, He had a closed sales volume of over $35.5 million involving 76 transaction sides for the year 2020.
ENERGY
Freedom Energy Logistics, Auburn, has named Loren Stacey channel program director, overseeing the firm’s network of independent energy consultants, membership aggregations and channel partners.
Palmer Gas & Oil has broken ground on a propane storage facility in Somersworth.
The company already has storage facilities in Atkinson, North Hampton and Raymond.
Keene Housing has wrapped up a third solar energy project with the installation of a 98-kilowatt array on the roofs of the agency’s North Street and Gilsum Street Apartments. ReVision Solar Impact Partners owns the arrays through a power purchase agreement with Keene Housing.
RETAIL
Concord-based Capital Regional Development Council recently assisted in the financing of Angela’s Pasta and Cheese Shop in Manchester. Angela’s, in business for four decades in Manchester, offers a selection of imported Italian foods, wines from Italy and California, a diverse cheese bar, Italian deli meats, fresh pasta cut to order, fresh and frozen meals and gift baskets. CRDC facilitated the purchase and sale of both the property and the business with Primary Bank.
C-Store Investments LLC, Gilford, recently provided advisory and transactional services to Mark Dickson in the sale of Airport Country Store & Deli, Gilford, to Energy North Group, Lawrence, Mass.- based wholesale distributor of fuel in New England and upstate New York.
TRANSPORTATION
Merchants Fleet, Hooksett, has announced the launch of Electrify Fleet, a new vehicle electrification initiative that will deploy new electric commercial vehicles into the market with OEM partners and educate clients about the advantages, applications and options available to them as fleet electrification continues to expand.
ENGINEERING
Sanborn, Head & Associates Inc., Concord, has announced a series of promotions: Russell Abell, leader of the industrial market team, to senior vice president; Christopher Finnegan of the energy market team to vice president; Bradley Green of the industrial practice to senior vice president; Matthew Heil of the development practice to vice president; Patrick Malone of the environmental practice to project director; Luke Norton of the development group to project director; and Jennifer Sanborn has been elected to Sanborn Head’s board of directors.
MANUFACTURING
Mark Savoy has been named CEO of Sylvania’s Automotive North American business. In addition, Marko Haas has been appointed as chief financial officer and Ben Soucy has been named director of operations for the North American business, overseeing daily operations at Sylvania’s Hillsboro manufacturing facilities.
GOVERNMENT
Concord Housing + Redevelopment has received $73,000 in federal funds through the Mainstream program, which sets aside funds to provide vouchers for eligible disabled families.
EDUCATION
Granite State College has been named to U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 list of the Best Online Bachelor’s Degree Programs. The magazine assessed 1,641 programs, and Granite State was ranked at No. 64 for online bachelor’s programs for veterans, No. 107 for its online bachelor’s programs, and No. 99 for online graduate business programs.
Rebecca Personett has been chosen to lead New England College’s its new RN to BSN program, which begins in the spring 2021 semester and will be delivered online. Personett most recently served as interim dean of nursing at Dallas College in Texas.
TECHNOLOGY
Matthew Maravilla, Midwest regional sales manager for Laconiabased Orion Entrance Control, has been elected president of ASIS Chicago Chapter. ASIS is an international organization of security professionals.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Parcel Room, a packand-ship business at 1465 Woodbury Ave., Portsmouth, has been sold by Jeff Ballantyne to Ryan Boccelli and Jason Newman. Boccelli is the owner of Rate Liner, which focuses on warehousing, fulfillment and transportation services. The transaction was brokered by Ed Settino, a business broker with New Hampshire Business Sales Inc., Pembroke. Financing was provided by The Provident Bank.
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