The Buzz Online

This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight  

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Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. in Exeter began a public offering of common shares in the U.S. and Canada valued at $110 million and changed its name to Performance Sports Group Ltd. along with its stock symbol from BAU to PSG on the NYSE and Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Don Shumway, president and CEO of Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center (CMRC) in Greenfield, Benjamin Drew, residential supervisor at CMRC, Deirdre Grimes, HR benefit coordinator at CMRC, and Lorrie Rudis, VP of HR at CRMC, all received the Patriot Award from the Department of Defense in D.C.

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Residence at Portwalk Place in Portsmouth became a sponsor of The Music Hall in Portsmouth for its ongoing 2014-15 season.

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Aquarion Water Company in Hampton awarded its Environmental Champion Award to four winners: business, Smuttynose Brewing Company in Hampton; non-profit, North Hampton Conservation Commission in North Hampton; adult, Cathy Silver, biology teacher at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton; and student, Allyson McAllister, senior at Winnacunnet High School.

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Colby-Sawyer College in New London signed an agreement with White Mountains Community College (WMCC) in Berlin to allow WMCC graduates the opportunity to transfer into a bachelor degree program at Colby-Sawyer with a minimum guaranteed $18,000 annual scholarship.

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Work Opportunities Unlimited in Concord, Dover, Manchester, and Salem hired Julie Oakley, former operations trainer at Walgreens in Ill., as its seacoast director.

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The Manchester School District in Manchester hired Kimberly Organek as principal of Henry Wilson Elementary School in Manchester. Organek was previously the principal of Southside Middle School in Manchester.

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Market Street Settlement Group, LLC in Manchester launched the latest version of its app Title!Snap, which provides real estates professionals and loan officers in the Maine and NH area calculators for their title and settlement calculation needs.

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Weston Elementary School in Manchester received a $15,000 donation from Dunkin’ Donuts in Mass. The school used the donation to purchase 25 classroom media centers.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester in Manchester hired Charisse Marquez as a medical technologist in its department of internal medicine. Marquez completed her residency at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in R.I. in 2008. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord hired Jane Doherty as a family nurse practitioner in its Concord Primary Care practice.

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HPM Insurance in Londonderry and Milford hired Amey Amsden Fuller as accounting specialist.

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Ski NH in Lincoln awarded Thom Perkins, executive director of the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation in Jackson, for his contributions to the NH ski community over the last four decades.

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Twinstate Technologies won two American Inhouse Design Awards in the categories of corporate identity and letterhead from Graphic Design USA Magazine in N.Y.