This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight
Stay Work Play New Hampshire, located in Manchester, welcomed two new members to its board of directors: Anna Moskov of New Hampshire Public Radio, and Pubali Campbell of Bikram Yoga Manchester.
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In Keene, Michelle White-Malcolm joined the Hannah Grimes Marketplace staff. Her duties will include maintaining the tradition and image of the marketplace, as well as handling sales, customer service, member relations, and a variety of other store functions.
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Northern Wood Power of Portsmouth set a milestone by having consumed more than three million tons of clean wood chips mostly from local New Hampshire sources.
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Concord's McGowan Fine Art completed a multi-phase project for Rivier University of Nashua. Amanda Lacasse, the corporate art consultant, coordinated the project, selecting colorful, bright artwork for the recently renovated administrative building, Adrienne Hall, to reflect the energy of Rivier's students, faculty, and staff.
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In Durham, Jason Cannon, operations program manager for the New Hampshire Small Business Development Center, received the Association of Small Business Development Centers' New Hampshire 2012 State Star award.
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Panera Bread of Bedford presented a check for $5,050 to CASA of New Hampshire, raised through Panera's Operation Dough-Nation program. The donation will help support the non-profit's efforts to recruit, train, and supervise volunteers to serve as advocates for abused and neglected children in the New Hampshire court system.
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FairPoint Communications, located in Manchester, expanded broadband to 4,905 homes and businesses in 33 New Hampshire communities.
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City Year New Hampshire, based in Manchester, received the 2012 Nonprofit Management Award from The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's Corporate Fund.
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In Exeter, Jean Kane of The Kane Company, Inc. announced Anvil International leased the property at 2 Holland Way in Exeter, NH from CPEX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Hampshire First Bank of Manchester hosted free document shredding events partnered with Northeast Record Retention for the public at their Manchester and Londonderry branches. An estimated 14,200 pounds of paper was shredded between the two events.
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The Citizens Bank Foundation based in Manchester provided a $10,000 grant to City Year's "Whole School Whole Child" program currently underway in six elementary school in Manchester to help young children stay in school and on track academically.
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Londonderry's EnviroSense launched a new website to provide information about their expansion in services about comprehensive Environmental Health & Safety services.
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In Manchester, the Citizens Bank Foundation provided a $10,000 grant to the Hannah Grimes Center in Keen to establish its Keene Hub Food Systems Initiative to support local food producers.
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The New Hampshire district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration in Concord announced its 2012 lender awards, which includes Northway Bank, Granite State Development Corporation, Centrix Bank, St. Mary's Bank, Kennebunk Savings Bank, and more.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families in Hanover awarded the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine a five-year $3.2 million grant to fund work at the Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center.
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Jewett Automotive Design & Construction based in Raymond completed the construction of the new Al's Automotive & Truck Service Center in preparation for the company's relocation to Exeter.
In Concord, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation awarded a $75,000 grant to the Foundation for Healthy Communities for the NH CATCH Kids Club Project.