The Buzz Online

This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight  

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Environment First Printing in Portsmouth hired Bill Rogers, previously CIO and commissioner at the State of NH, as its CEO.

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Colby-Sawyer College in New London began offering an accounting major both online and in the classroom. It has also begun offering a math minor.

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Kane Insurance in Portsmouth, Rye, Stratham, and Manchester received the Chairman's Award from Safeco Insurance in Wash. for its excellent performance and commitment to service.

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The 2014 Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business included twenty attorneys from Preti Flaherty in Maine, Mass., D.C., and Concord, three of which work in its NH office: John Sullivan, managing partner at its NH corporate/commercial bankruptcy practice; Simon Leeming, director at its NH real estate practice; and William Saturley, director at its general commercial litigation practice.

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Bank of NH in Laconia returned as the $10,000 title sponsor for the golf classic sponsored by LRGHealthcare in Laconia.

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The Greater Manchester/ Nashua Board of Realtors in Bedford raised $4,644.47 for Angie's Shelter for Women in Manchester through its Spring into Style event.

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Metro Walls in Manchester opened an office in Westbrook, Maine. It hired Jim Roy, formerly the chief estimator for Porter Drywall in Maine, as general manager/ chief estimator of the Maine office.

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Jewett Automotive Design & Construction, a division of Jewett Construction Company, Inc. in Raymond, contracted with AutoServ Dealer Group in Tilton to build an infill addition and renovate its Ford and Chrysler dealerships in Tilton.

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Ecole Chocolat Professional School of Chocolate Arts in Calif. hired Richard Tango-Lowy as the flavor coach for its online Chocolate Bootcamp program. Tango-Lowy is the master chocolatier and owner of Dancing Lion Chocolate in Manchester.

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The EPA awarded $600,000 in Brownfield grants, one to the City of Manchester for $200,000 and the other to the Southwest Region Planning Commission in Keene for $400,000, to assist cleanup of contaminated parcels. The agency also provided Targeted Brownfields Assessment  assistance worth $115,000 to Monadnock Economic Development Corp. in Keene for assessment work at Old Keene Landfill in Keene.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon hired Gay Landstrom as its chief nursing officer. Landstrom was formerly the Senior VP and chief nursing officer at Trinity Health Group in Mich.

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Sterling Linen Services in Manchester received a $28,000 incentive from Liberty Utilities in Ga. for the implementation of its Xeros Commercial Laundry System, which uses a polymer bead technology that reduces natural gas usage up to 100% and water usage by up to 8-0%.

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Virginia Lupi, previously the director of the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes in N.Y., was confirmed as the director of the NH Department of Cultural Resources' Division of theArts in Concord.