The Buzz Online

This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight

Community Bridges, an agency in Concord that advances the integration, growth and interdependence of people with disabilities within their home communities, received the 2012 Dunfey Award for excellence in nonprofit management from The Corporate Fund. 

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In Washington, the U.S. Small Business Administration's Small Business Investment Company debenture program provided $2.95 billion to small businesses in fiscal year 2012. 

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Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Wolfeboro announced Sarah Kelley Ford has been appointed as sales manager of the company's Wolfeboro office. Ford will be responsible for day-to-day sales and operations of nine sales associates and surrounding communities within the Lakes Region. 

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Concentra of Dallas, TX expanded operational services to New Hampshire patients in Corcord and Manchester. Patients at Concord location will be able to receive new and extended operation hours to the current location, while patients at Manchester will be welcomed to a new facility. 

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Concord-based Sulloway & Hollis, PLLC announced five of its attorneys were selected for inclusion in the November 2012 issue of New England Super Lawyers. 

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Baker Newman Noyes, located in Portland, ME, grew in its tax and audit department, able to hire nine new employees to the firm's depth and breadth of experienced professionals. 

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During a private reception, Portsmouth Mayor Eric Spear congratulated Ed and Lisa Ganem on the 10th Anniversary of their company Home Instead Senior Care of the Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire. 

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In Newington, Jill Boynton, principal at Cornerstone Financial Planning, was elected to the board of directors for the Collaborative Law Alliance of New Hampshire.

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The Harris Center for Conservation Education, located in Hancock, established a new award in honor of Laurie Bryan, executive director from 2008 to 2012. 

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The town of Windham welcomes the growth in medical practices expanding into available commercially zoned space to better serve the residents of the town and the surrounding communities. E. Nickerson Associates, a construction management firm located in Windham, completed phase one of Castle Commons, now home to eight medical practices. 

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The Community Child Care Center based in Portsmouth held its 2nd Annual 5K Run for the Kids. The race contained 171 runners and raised over $6,000 for the nonprofit center's early childhood and school-age programs that serve over 300 cildren daily at Community Campus. 

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In Hooksett, the Public Service of New Hampshire opened a new 70,000 square foot building. This facility will serve as the headquarters for the Construction, Test & Maintenance Division of PSNH's Transmission Group. 

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FairPoint Communications, located in Charlotte, NC, launched a green retail energy option to residence of Maine and New Hampshire to reduce electricity costs. FairPoint Communications entered into a marketing agreement with Cirus Energy, a provider of green energy. FairPoint has also licensed to Crius the name FairPoint Energy.

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Bedford-based Centrix Bank reported 40 percent year-over-year income growth in the third quarter 2012 financial results. 

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Rochester's Holy Rosary Credit Union recognized Virgie McQuade as Employee of the Quarter for the months of July, August, and September 2012. 

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The grant is part of a $3.7 million plan to expand the Bradley Street club house and increase the number of children the organization can serve from 180 to 220.

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In Concord, Mike Ostrowski, president and CEO of Child and Family Services of NH, won the 2012 Robert Chamberlin Award by Family Support NH.

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Nashua's Gateways Community Services' Family Support Council was awarded $2,027.89 from the Merrimack Lions Club through its recent charity golf tournament to help support programs and services for people with developmental disabilities and their families. 

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LaPerle's IGA supermarket in Colebrook is building the largest solar electric project north of Franconia Notch. 

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Law firm Primmer Piper Eggleston & Gramer, PC, with offices in Burlington, Montpelier, and St. Johnsbury, VT and Manchester, Littleton, and Portsmouth, has had lawyers from the firm selected for the inclusion in the 2012 List of Super Lawyers. 

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