Category: Business

The Women Business Owners Network (WBON) will hold its spring conference at the Hampton Inn in Colchester on Thursday, May 2. Featured keynote speaker will be former Ambassador Linda Tarr-Whelan is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a national progressive think tank and author of the award-winning “Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping… Read More

Businesses and organizations are welcomed to form teams of riders to participate in the Ride for Children event on Saturday May 11. So far, teams from Fitness Options, Lund, Terry Precision Cycling, PC Construction, Vermont Health Co-op, and Home Instead have signed up. Event organizer, Amy Cronin, says, “Companies should get involved with our Ride… Read More

Kelliher Samets Volk (KSV), a Burlington-based marketing agency, is happy to welcome back former employee and Shelburne resident Erin Fagnant as brand manager. This marks Fagnant’s second stint at KSV, where she previously managed KSV’s award-winning campaign for Sugarbush Resort. She brings with her years of integrated experience on such great travel brands as American… Read More

Vermont’s civic and business leaders will join the Alzheimer’s Association in honoring Scott D. Carpenter at the 2013 Reason to Hope Dinner on Tuesday, April 30. The fourth annual event will be chaired by Dan Feeney, president of North Star Leasing and co-owner of Armistead Caregiver Services and Lesli Blount, director of corporate support for… Read More

Shelburne resident Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., University of Vermont Professor of Medicine and medical director of the Thrombosis and Hemostasis program at Fletcher Allen Health Care, was elected a member of the national Board of Directors of the American Heart Association (AHA), effective May 1. The AHA is the nation’s oldest, largest voluntary organization devoted… Read More

The Big Chill – Be a Hero for Epilepsy held on Sunday, April 14 at Bayside Park in Colchester was a great success. Nearly 125 participants took a dip in the lake with water temperatures hovering around 40. The incredible chicken and pork barbecue was prepared by The Dutch Mill Family Restaurant. Over $12,000 was… Read More

GoodHEALTH Associates in Adult Medicine and the GoodHEALTH Diagnostic Center, a primary care practice in South Burlington established in 2000 by Doctors Peter Gunther and Mark Pitcher, a former and current Shelburne resident respectively, is expanding. With the addition of three new providers, Dr. Melissa Brandes and Dr. John Wright, both from Vermont Internal Medicine… Read More