LAW
McLane Middleton has announced the hiring of Kim E. LaCoste as a trust officer in the firm’s Trust Services Department. She previously worked as vice president and trust officer at NHTrust for five years, and 13 years as vice president and wealth advisor at Charter Trust Company.
Sheehan Phinney shareholder Megan C. Carrier has been honored with the NH Bar Foundation’s 2021 Kirby Award, which is given annually to a New Hampshire lawyer who demonstrates extraordinary skill, competence, civility and professionalism. She was presented with the award at the NH Bar Foundation’s annual dinner last month.
Christine Monigle, principle of Leto Advisors & Advocates in Hanover, has been chosen by the National Safe Parents Coalition as the lead advocate to enact Kayden’s Law in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.
The law requires an evidentiary hearing during child custody proceedings to verify abuse allegations and restricts expert testimony to those who are appropriately qualified as well as limit the use of reunification and therapies that cannot be proven to be safe and effective.
GOVERNMENT
The Manchester Adverse Childhood Experiences Response Team, created by YWCA New Hampshire, the Manchester Police Department and Amoskeag Health, is receiving $750,000 in federal funds to expand services that help connect children who have been exposed to domestic violence or other traumatic experiences with community services to help break the intergenerational cycle of trauma.
EDUCATION
To help meet the needs for trained veterinary staff, White Mountains Community College has expanded veterinary training partnerships in Maine with VCA Standish Hospital and Maine Veterinary Medical Center. The partnerships will provide students entering WMCC’s two-semester veterinary assistant certificate program with additional opportunities for hands-on learning at local clinics.
HEALTHCARE
Martin’s Point Health Care, a Portland, Maine-based nonprofit provider of direct healthcare services and Medicare and TRICARE health plans in Maine and New Hampshire, has chosen Dr. Paul F. Kasuba, a Massachusetts-based physician and current member of the board of directors, to serve as its next president and CEO.
Sandra L. Wong has been elected to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board of Trustees, replacing David S. Jevsevar as the board’s new clinical chair/center director representative. Wong, a surgical oncologist, is the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
ENGINEERING
Matthew Bean has joined TFMoran Inc. as a structural project engineer in the firm’s Bedford office. During his undergraduate study at the University of New Hampshire, he worked as a summer fellow conducting research on the effect of freeze-thaw cycles on asphalt performance. Also joining TFMoran is Robin Carter, who will be working as an accounting assistant in the Bedford office. She has extensive experience in office management duties and customer service.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Tye Jacobson has been named vice president of overseas operations for Portsmouth-based Service Credit Union. Jacobson, most recently assistant vice president of member services, assumes the role from Philip von Streicher, who retired from Service Credit Union in March 2022. He is based in Sembach, Germany. In addition, Service Credit Union has announced that David Widener, formerly chief technology officer at My-HealthMath, has been named assistant vice president of innovation and analytics. The credit union has also named Scott Alward to be manager of fraud, and promoted Whitney Mendonca to manager of organizational development and Jonathan Millett to manager of stateside training. Sarah Liles will succeed Millett as manager of the credit union’s UNH branch.
Christine Greenwood-Smart has been promoted to vice president, residential mortgage sales manager at Savings Bank of Walpole. She initially joined the Bank in 2011, serving as a mortgage loan officer.
Bangor Savings Bank has promoted Lannie Moffatt to chief operating officer and Kim Pope to chief banking officer. Moffatt has been with the bank for over 15 years, most recently as chief experience officer and executive vice president. Pope was previously director of consumer banking, senior vice president, and was the New England north regional director of business banking for over 20 years at Citizens Bank.
Diana Johnson of Hooksett has been promoted to vice president, marketing officer at Merrimack County Savings Bank. She began her career with the Merrimack in 2010 as a marketing specialist, later promoted to public relations officer for NH Mutual Bancorp and then relationship marketing officer. In addition, Kelly Wright of Loudon has joined the bank as marketing communications manager in the Concord office. Previously, Wright was a senior news producer for television stations in New Hampshire and upstate New York.
Jeff Gendron of Litchfield has joined Ledyard Financial Advisors as senior vice president, senior portfolio manager and investment strategist. Prior to joining Ledyard Financial Advisors, he researched investments and managed portfolios at The Colony Group and Harvest Capital Management, and before that conducted manager due diligence research for the broker-dealer division of Lincoln Financial Group and served in various roles at the NH Retirement System.
Merrimack County Savings Bank has added Margot Elise Anderson to its leadership team as vice president commercial loan officer. She is based out of the Merrimack’s main office in downtown Concord.
ARCHITECTURE
Maugel Architects, a planning, commercial and residential design firm with offices in Harvard, Mass. and Portsmouth, has changed its corporate name to Maugel DeStefano Architects. Maugel acquired DeStefano Architects of Portsmouth in 2019, when DeStefano Architects was renamed DeStefano Maugel Architects.
“The unified name celebrates the next step in leveraging our combined strengths,” said Lisa DeStefano, principal of Maugel DeStefano Architects and founder of DeStefano Architects.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Three new members have been added to the board of directors of Stay Work Play, an organization working to attract and retain young people in New Hampshire. They are: Nashua resident Doria Brown, energy manager for the city of Nashua; Plymouth resident Angie Miller, owner of Plymouth Soapworks and 2011 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year; and Concord resident Tina Philibotte, chief equity officer of the Manchester School District.
The Lebanon-based Upper Valley Business Alliance has announced the addition of three new members to its board of directors: Stacey Dameron, HR business partner at Novo Nordisk in Lebanon; Maria Laskaris, director of development for Opera North in Lebanon; and Kerry Ann Rigas, partner in the Law Office of Margaret A Jacobs in Norwich, Vt.
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce recently announced the winners of its annual Pinnacle Awards, which honor individuals and organizations that have a positive impact on the Capital Region: Small Business of the Year, The Hotel Concord; Business of the Year, Bangor Savings Bank; Nonprofit Business of the Year, The Friendly Kitchen; and Business Leader of the Year, Jonathan Halle of Warrenstreet Architects Inc.
NONPROFITS
Crotched Mountain Community Care has added Cory Jackson and Keith Plunske to its case management team. Jackson, who previously worked at Servicelink, is covering the North Country area as part of the Whitefield team. Plunske previously worked at Gateways, where he worked with individuals with disabilities. Joining Crotched Mountain’s adult services team are Alexis Wayland, adult services program supervisor, who previously worked at Robin Hill Farm, where she managed programs for adults with developmental disabilities.
Kara Reeves joins the organization as grant writer for the Crotched Mountain Foundation.
Newburyport Bank has donated $10,000 to Veterans Count in support of The Runnymede Formal, to be held Friday, June 24, at Runnymede Farm in North Hampton. The event will feature dinner and entertainment, and the guest speaker will be Gen. Joseph Dunford, who served as the 19th chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
NHTrust has provided a $1,000 sponsorship to the Maps Counseling Services Wellness Festival to support fundraising efforts for its Hope and Healing Fund, which provides financial assistance to uninsured or underinsured clients, so they can seek quality mental health care options. The Wellness Festival is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at the United Church of Christ, 23 Central Square, Keene.
The Nashua Arts Commission has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to receive $150,000 in American Rescue Plan funds to distribute to Nashuabased arts nonprofits.
The funds are part of over $20 million nationwide granted to 66 local arts agencies to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. Information on eligibility and the application are available on the Nashua Arts Commission website, nashuanh.gov/1521/City-of-Nashua-NEA-Grant-Application. Applications are due by May 18.
Shalimar Encarnacion, owner of Shalimar Ventures and program and outreach coordinator of the NH Children’s Scholarship Fund, has joins the board of directors of the NH Hampshire Community Loan Fund.
The NH Food Bank’s Recipe for Success culinary job training program has become the first New Hampshire culinary job training program to receive approval from the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation. The American Culinary Federation is the largest professional organization for chefs and cooks in North America. Recipe for Success aims to empower people suffering financial hardship to learn new skills, enabling them to become more self-sufficient and to improve their quality of life.
The NH Fisher Cats baseball teams and its Fisher Cats Foundation have launched the First Responders Fund, a charitable initiative to support the families of New Hampshire police and firefighters in need. The fund will officially launch as part of First Responders Night at Delta Dental Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 11. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the individual tickets sold on that night will benefit the fund, as well as the in-game 50/50 raffle and boot pass collection. The Fisher Cats Foundation will also make a $2,500 donation and contribute a portion of the funds from the annual Granite State Baseball Dinner to the cause.
REAL ESTATE
The Dairy Queen franchise store in Laconia has been sold after 21 years of ownership by Michael and Michelle Merrill to Brian and Mariluz Flanders. Ivor Thomas and Leon Parker of New Hampshire Business Sales represented the sellers in the transaction.
Mike Reed, president of Stebbins Commercial Properties LLC, has announced the sale of the 19,200-square-foot commercial building at 42-44 Bridge St., Manchester by Manchester Memorial Employee Credit Union to MOR Real Estate Holdings LLC, Manchester. Reed represented the seller and assisted the buyer in the transaction. According to the Registry of Deeds, the sale price was $1.15 million.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Newburyport, Mass.-based meetings and events firm Ember has launched Ember Escapes, gathering destinations built to ignite professionals’ creative fire. The first property, Quietude, is a mountain retreat in Tuftonboro, NH, that is scheduled to open for off-site meetings, team building, corporate retreats and remote work-from-home. Officials said Ember Escapes is designed specifically to reset isolated work environments and capture the benefits of in-person creativity. “What our clients have learned over the past two years is just how important human connection is for team building and sustaining long-term business goals,” said Chris Gasbarro, owner and vice president of strategy. “We combined Ember’s expertise in producing business events with the physical design of Ember Escapes to give companies meaningful experiences that will accomplish more in three days than six months of on-screen meetings.”
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