This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight
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Parkland Medical Center in Derry hired Chris Accashian as chief executive officer. Accashian formerly worked at Hospital Corporation of America's capital division in Richmond, Virginia as COO.
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Catherine Blake, president and founder of Sales Protocol International in Portsmouth, was appointed to the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors for a three-year term(2013-2016) as the HAA graduate school director for the Harvard Extension School.
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Cobb Hill Construction, Inc. in Concord began work on two projects; a dental office in Londonderry and office space for the American Pain Institute in Portsmouth.
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Sovereign Bank, with locations throughout the state, is changing its name to Santander Bank, the same name as its holding company, Santander Holdings USA, based out of Boston, Mass.
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Dave Nixon, senior partner at Nixon, Vogelman, Barry, Slawsky & Simoneau in Manchester, was named in the 20th edition of The Best Lawyers in America, an annual peer-review publication. Along with Nixon, eight lawyers from Preti Flaherty in Concord were recognized: Peter Brown, energy law, Peter Callaghan, commercial litigation; Simon Leeming, corporate law and real estate law; Daiel Luker, commercial litigation and corporate law; Tim Platt, securities/capital markets law; Mark Puffer, municipal law; william Saturely, legal malpractice law; John Sullivan, bankruptcy and credit-debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law an corporate law.
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Holy Rosary Credit Union in Rochester launched two new youth programs; M3 Money Club targeted at children ages birth through 12 and promoting saving and good financial habits and Elements of Money, which is targeted at young adults between 13 and 17 and focuses on savings and checkings accounts.
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TD Bank in Portsmouth promoted Britt Landspeger to assistant VP, store manager. Landsperger started at TD Bank in 2012 as an assistant store manager.
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Jewett Automotive Design & Construction, a division of Jewett Construction Company, Inc. in Raymond, contracted with Volkswagen of Rochester in Rochester to renovate the dealership.
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Phelps Dieck, owner of the restaurant Brazo in Portsmouth, is launching a pub named BRGR Bar at Portwalk Place in Portsmouth.
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FairPoint Communications in Manchester is planning to upgrade its broadband internet service in 18 NH towns; Albany, Conway, Dalton, Fitzwilliam, Franklin, Greenfield, Hinsdale, Landaff, Lyme, Milan, Newbury, Pittsburg, Rindge, Spofford, Stewartstown, Troy, Tuftonboro, Walpole, and Westmoreland.
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Dartmouth College in Hanover teamed up with Design Mentor, Inc. in Pelham to conduct testing on Design Mentor's patented pulsatile pressure cardiac pump called VentriFlo.
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Families in Transition, a nonprofit in Manchester, Concord, and Dover, broke ground on the Hayward Street Housing Development which will onsist of six two-bedroom apartments to help parents and their children dealing with homelessness.
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Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green in Manchester hired Nathan Warecki. Warecki was formerly a judicial extern for the Honorable Joseph Laplante.