The Buzz Online

This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight  

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New Hampshire Travel and Tourism (DTTD) Director Lori Harnois joins the U.S. Travel Association’s Membership Governance Committee as an at-large director as a result of a member-wide vote. She is the first NH director to be named to the board and will serve on the committee through 2016. At-large directors officially started their new terms at the spring board meeting, held in Washington, D.C. recently.
 
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Monadnock Buy Local in Keene named its inaugural board of directors: Rebeckah Bullock, community development specialist at Southwest Region Planning Commision in Keene; Rich Grogan, regional manager at the NH Small Business Development Center in Durham; Katy Locke, co-founder and board president of Transition Keene Advocates in Keene; Zach Luse, founder of Paragon Digital Marketing in Keene; Jen Risley, membership & marketing manager at the Monadnock Food Co-op in Keene; Mitchell Shakour, owner and manager of The Monadnock Shopper in Keene; and Willard Williams, co-owner of The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough.

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North Branch Construction in Concord named Joseph Campbell, project manager, and Christopher Galbraith, superintendent, as principals of the firm.

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Community Child Care Center in Portsmouth elected Kristen Jeffrey, managing director of talent recruitment for Teach for America in Boston, and Jennifer Madden, founder and owner at Jenn Madden Realtors in Rye Beach, to its board of directors. The Center also received a $30,000 grant from the Foundation for Seacoast Health in Portsmouth to provide early learning and school-age programming for seacoast children.

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C&J Bus Lines in Portsmouth hired Bridgette Desmond, former marketing director of Galley Hatch Enterprises in Hampton, as marketing director.

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St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts in Berlin named Monique Lavertu as executive director. Lavertu was formerly the office coordinator at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin.

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Bode Equipment Company in Londonderry was awarded Most Valuable Partner status by the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association in Ill.

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The Northern Pass project formed the Coös County Jobs Creation Association in Whitefield. Members of the association include: John Gallus, principal broker at Gallus & Green Real Estate in Berlin, chair; Allen Bouthillier, owner of A.B. Logging and Trucking, Inc. in Lancaster, member; David Atkinson, business manager at A.B. Logging and Trucking, Inc., member; Ted Burns, co-owner of the Grand Ole Lodge in Stratford, member; and Chris Diego, managing director of the Mountain View Grand in Whitefield, member.

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Citizens Bank Foundation in Manchester donated $20,000 to the NH Small Business Development Center in Durham to support its Pathway to Work program.

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Prestige Auto Body in Manchester was certified as a Chrysler Recognized Certified Collision Repair Facility.

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McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton in Manchester donated $1,000 to Leadership Seacoast in Portsmouth to support its 2014 program year.

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Hay Creek Hotels in Exeter hired Jonathan Quidore, former director of food & beverage at Stowe Mountain Lodge in Vt., as assistant general manager of The Exeter Inn and Epoch Restaurant & Bar in Exeter.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, Elliot Health System in Manchester, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Manchester hired Corbin Marie Petro, former chief operating office at MassHealth in Boston, as president of ElevateHealth, a joint venture to provide high quality care at a lower premium.

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Jewett Construction Company, Inc. in Raymond contracted with First Colebrook Bank in Colebrook to undertake a renovation and addition project at its Portsmouth branch.