The Buzz Online

This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight  

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Private Jet Services in Seabrook hired Bill Blanchard as chief technology officer. Blanchard formerly worked as chief technology officer for Language Scientific in Mass. 

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The NH Municipal Bond Bank in Concord approved Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer in Littleton, Manchester, and Portsmouth to serve as bond counsel for NH borrowers on bond bank transactions.

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The NH Division of Travel and Tourism in Concord hired Kris Neilsen, former communications director at the NH Department of Health and Human Services in Concord, as its communications and social media manager.

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The Animal Rescue League of NH in Bedford elected Robert Bossie to its board of directors. Bossie was formerly a principal at Bossie & Wilson Law Firm in Manchester.

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NBT Bank, with NH headquarters in Manchester, hired Stephen Lubelczyk as regional president of operations in NH. Formerly, Lubelczyk was market manager for Northern New England at Citizens Bank in R.I.

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The City of Dover launched a way finding campaign created by DARCI Creative in Portsmouth titled “Get To It!” that will help locate available parking in the downtown area.

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The Kiwanis Club of Manchester elected new directors: Michelle Chretien, mortgage banker at Residential Mortgage Services in Bedford, president; Rob Batchelder, VP commercial loan officer at the Bank of New England in Salem, board member; David Bernard, retired, board member; and Dottie Gove, program director for the child and family services home care program at Child and Family Services of NH in Concord, board member.

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Centrix Bank in Bedford, now officially Eastern Bank, donated $10,000 to four Milford community non-profits: Boys and Girls Club of Souhegan Valley in Milford; Bridges: Domestic & Sexual Violence Support in Milford and Nashua; Opportunity Networks in Amherst; and SHARE Outreach in Milford.

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St. Joseph Healthcare in Nashua hired Valena Wright as a gynecologic oncologist. Wright completed her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass.

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The Department of Veterans Affair in D.C. leased an expanded clinic location at Mt. Eustis Commons in Littleton. Mt. Eustis Commons is owned by AHEAD in Littleton a non-profit providing affordable housing and financial education, and was represented by Peabody & Smith Realty in Franklin in the lease.

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FIRST, an international non-profit based in Manchester that promotes education and career opportunities in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) disciplines, began working with fourth graders in the Manchester School District.

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Baker Newman Noyes in Manchester, Mass. and Maine added five new professionals to its Manchester office: Jon Cushion, former accounting co-op at Pennichuck Corp. in Merrimack, staff auditor; Christopher Hussey, former tax supervisor at Bigelow & Company in Manchester, tax manager; Jessica Lefavor, former financial planning and tax assistant at Bartley Financial Advisors, Inc. in Bedford and Mass., staff auditor; Krystal Martin, graduate of the University of Maine, Orono, staff member in the risk and business advisory practice; and Monique Welch, former staff accountant at Edward C. David and Company in Hampstead, audit staff II.

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The Crotched Mountain Foundation in Greenfield appointed new board of director members and trustees: Susan Reeves, chair and associate professor of nursing and public health at Colby Sawyer College in New London, board of directors; Laura Clark, founder and co-coordinator of Wheelchair Health in Concord and Goffstown, trustee; and Jennifer Crowell, founder and co-coordinator of Wheelchair Health in Concord and Goffstown, trustee.