The Buzz Online

This Week's The Buzz Online Spotlight

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People’s United Bank, with NH headquarters in Manchester, donated $10,000 to the Easter Seals NH in Manchester to support its special education teachers at the Robert B. Jolicoeur School in Manchester.

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Bank of NH in Concord hired Bob Mercer as its VP of business development and treasury management officer.

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ProEx Physical Therapy in Portsmouth promoted Nicolae McManus to assistant director of clinical education from her position as center coordinator of clinical education.

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The U.S. Small Business Bureau in D.C. certified Members First Credit Union in Manchester as a participating lender. Members First also elected James Burkush, fire chief for the City of Manchester, and Ashlee Lewer, great-granddaughter of Members first founder John Walsh to its board.

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Parkland Medical Center in Derry appointed Kathryn Marschner, former clinical nurse manager of The Surgery Center of Greater Nashua in Nashua, as director of surgical services.

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j. ellen Design in Manchester hired Michelle Pierson as an interior design consultant.

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Calypso Communications in Portsmouth hired Lauren Smith as a public relations account executive. Smith previously worked in the manufacturing and technology practice at PadillaCRT in Minn.

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Devine Millimet, a law firm in Manchester, absorbed Nelson Kinder + Mosseau, a Massachusetts firm, taking over all of its attorneys and staff.

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wedü in Manchester received two creative service awards at the Summit International Awards’ 2015 Summit Creative Awards. It earned at gold in consumer service website category for the website it designed for Harvest Capital in Concord and a bronze in the not-for-profit video category for ‘Walk. Bike. Do Better,” which was produced for Safe Routes to Schools in N.C.

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Piscataqua Savings Bank in Portsmouth elected six new corporators: Timothy Durkin, independent business consultant; Terri Golter, real estate agent at RE/MAX By The Bay in Portsmouth; Richard Jenkinson, senior advisor for government relations and public affairs at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Mass.; Evan Mullen, architectural designer and project manager at Port One Architects in Portsmouth; Michael Murphy, CPA and shareholder for Murphy, Powers, and Wilson in Hampton; and Alan Robinson, strategic planning manager at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth.