HEALTHCARE

Androscoggin Valley Hospital, Berlin, has added Dr. Alex Iorga to its Emergency Department staff. Most recently, Iorga was supervising physician at Harlem Hospital in New York City, a Level II Trauma Center. He has also held the role of assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine at Columbia University.

Dr. Jack L. Cronenwett, a vascular surgeon at Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center and professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dart mouth, was recently bestowed with the first Lifetime Achievement in Education Award from the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery. The award recognizes an individual’s outstanding and sustained contributions in the education of the next generation of vascular surgeons.

Dr. Charlotte Helvie has joined the staff of Memorial Hospital in North Conway as its newest pediatrician. She previously worked at the Northern Inyo Health Care District in Bishop, Calif.

Plymouth State University recently recognized Speare Memorial Hospital with its Community Partner Award, which is given to a nonprofit organization that has enhanced the quality of life in the community and engaged in the development of sustained, reciprocal partnerships with a college or university.

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING

Kristen Lestock has joined Cookson Communications, Manchester, as director of communications and client engagement.

Prior to joining Cookson, Lestock worked as director of communications at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, where she was responsible for the day-to-day management of the communications department.

EDUCATION

The Community College System of New Hampshire has begun issuing digital professional badges for student completion statewide. The badges are portable records of completion and indicators that are rendered as digital icons and can be included in resumes and other displays of achievement. CCSNH anticipates that more than 800 credentials will be given to students who completed programs through the colleges’ Business and Training Centers as part of the first phase. The badges will embed details of learning achievement, such as a full listing of competencies each badge represents.

Saint Anselm College has changed the new name of its Center for Ethics in Business and Governance to the Center for Ethics in Society as a way of better reflecting its mission of “transformation through dialogue” on a broad range of ethical problems. The center has an advisory board that includes 18 leaders from New Hampshire’s business, nonprofit and public policy communities.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

UScellular has promoted Will Winslow to strategic initiatives and operations manager for UScelluar in New England. He is responsible for collaborating with the New England leadership team in identifying, developing, and executing regional and organizational initiatives.

UTILITIES

Aquarion Water Company has begun work on a water main replacement project on High Street between Little River Road and Oak Road in Hampton. The project is expected to be completed by the end of July. The project will replace approximately 3,200 feet of water main, part of an ongoing program to improve Aquarion’s water distribution system, the company said.

NHSaves utility partners Eversource, Liberty, New Hampshire Electric Cooperative and Unitil have received the 2021 Energy Star Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. This is the eighth year in a row that they have won the award, which is the highest honor bestowed by the Energy Star program.

CONSTRUCTION

Christopher Galbraith, chief financial officer at North Branch Construction, has been named to the Construction Financial Management Association’s 40 Under 40 list for 2021. Galbraith has been with North Branch Construction for over 14 years, starting as a carpenter. He became a principal of the firm in 2014 and treasurer of the company in 2015.

Mike Lambert has joined DEW Construction as a civil estimator working out of the firm’s Manchester office. He most recently worked for WL French Excavating Corp., and prior to that he was a civil estimator with Consigli Construction. PC Construction has begun work on two major projects in New Hampshire. The 232-unit Edgebrook Residences, a residential development in Merrimack is a $43.1 million project that includes construction of four individual five-story residential buildings with parking garages. The plans also include a 5,000-square-foot clubhouse, featuring community space, a leasing office, exercise and yoga rooms and a cyber café. The company also recently began work on the city of Manchester’s $19.6 million Wastewater Treatment Facility Solids Trains project.

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

The Leadership Greater Concord program presented by the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce is seeking individuals to participate in the next 10-month session. Participants start with a retreat in September and continue with a series of monthly, day-long sessions from September to May focused on a particular aspect of the region. For more information, visit ConcordNHChamber.com/Leadership. Deadline is June 1.

Clean Energy NH has added Martha Fuller Clark, a recently retired state senator from Portsmouth, Freedom Energy Logistics Chief Operating Officer Bart Fromuth and Nashua Energy Manager Doria Brown as new to the board of directors.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Whitney West-Poss of Wilmot has joined Bar Harbor Bank & Trust as branch relationship manager for the bank’s location in Sunapee. Whitney, who has more than 10 years of banking experience, began her banking career as a member specialist at State Employees Federal Credit Union and later served as a branch manager for Trustco. Most recently, she served as a personal banker at KeyBank.

Lisa Cuipa of Merrimack has joined Primary Bank as assistant vice president and director of marketing and public relations. Most recently, she was marketing manager at KMC Systems Inc., a contract manufacturing and engineering services firm.

Mark Okscin has joined Service Credit Union as assistant vice president of financial analysis. A CPA, he most recently worked at Wellesley Bank in Massachusetts.

Bank of New Hampshire has promoted Nancy O’Connor to assistant vice president of retail lending processing/post closing manager. She joined Bank of New Hampshire in 2012 as a mortgage loan processor and later continued on retail lending team as a senior processor/closer and mortgage loan assistant.

Alycia Vosinek of Monroe has been named vice president/ commercial banker for St. Johnsbury Vt.- based Passumpsic Bank’s greater Littleton market.

GOVERNMENT

The New Hampshire Council for Responsible Gambling has received approval to use $290,000 in state funding to enter into a three-year contract with the New Hampshire Council on Problem Gambling to build training and clinical capacity, advance selfexclusion services and to facilitate outreach and awareness activities. The New Hampshire Liquor Commission has begun work on a new NH Liquor & Wine Outlet in Claremont and is set to start construction this summer on a new NH Liquor & Wine Outlet in Rindge. The new Claremont outlet will be 10,300 square feet, nearly doubling its floor space. The freestanding Rindge outlet will be a 10,500-squarefoot building on the same property as the current Outlet. The Claremont location is expected to open in July. The Rindge outlet is expected to open in the summer of 2022.

MANUFACTURING

Kalwall Corp. of Manchester and Structures Unlimited Inc. of Bow have entered a partnership with Opening Technologies Inc. of Concord, Calif., a supplier and installer of commercial security and safety solutions for 25 years. Under the partnership, Opening Technologies is adding Kalwall’s full line of daylighting solutions, including façades, skylights, skyroofs, canopies and walkways, and Structures Unlimited’s single-source aluminum box beam structures that use Kalwall translucent sandwich panels to its product offering.

NONPROFITS

The Board of Trustees of Fellowship Housing Opportunities Inc. has named Herb S. Carpenter its executive director. With a background in managed care, New Hampshire Medicaid and contract administration, Carpenter brings more than 35 years of management and leadership.

The New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence has added three members to its board of directors: Michael Hauptly-Pierce, co-founder of Lithermans Limited Brewery in Concord; Julia Williams, a director at Mass General Brigham; and Tina Smith, a member of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs for over 10 years.

The Greater Rochester Community Health Foundation, formerly known as the Frisbie Foundation, has signed an agreement with the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation creating a formal collaboration between the two organizations. GRCHF will become a “supporting organization” of the NHCF, drawing on NHCF’s community knowledge and financial and investment expertise to meet its mission. The foundation is being funded with proceeds from the sale of the nonprofit Frisbie Memorial Hospital to HCA Healthcare Inc.

Cydney Dodge and Rebecca Bunyard, both of Concord, will lead volunteer fundraising efforts, culminating in the first American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer statewide walk, to be held Oct. 17 in Concord. “By combining events from Exeter, Nashua, Manchester, Greater Lakes Region and Concord, our passion and determination will be amplified, and our resolve in the fight against breast cancer will be strengthened,” said Dodge. For more information, visit makingstrideswalk.org/nh. NHTrust has made a gift of $2,000 in support of the Tomie dePaola Art Education Fund at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester. The fund was created to support art education for young people of all backgrounds.

REAL ESTATE

Derek St. Cyr of Gilford has joined the Dow Realty Group, Meredith, as a full-time agent. He most recently spent 17 years as light industrial recruiter, safety manager and operations manager for his family’s business.

Newton, Mass.-based RMR Mortgage Trust recently closed a $39.2 million first mortgage floating-rate bridge loan financing the acquisition of two Class A cold storage industrial buildings at 6 Rockingham Rd. and 219 Rockingham Rd. in Londonderry. Upon closing, the properties were leased back to Highwood Cold Storage and Londonderry Freezer Warehouse, respectively. RMRM’s manager, Tremont Realty Capital, was introduced to the transaction by Cushman and Wakefield.

Brady Sullivan Properties has sold a twobuilding portfolio in Chelmsford — the 94,828-square-foot building at 199 Riverneck Rd. and the 90,399-square-foot building at 201 Riverneck Rd. — for $15 million. The properties are the former corporate headquarters of Mercury Systems. Charles Panasis, director of commercial real estate for Brady Sullivan, worked on the sale to The Davis Companies of Boston, Mass.

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