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Meredith Noyes, chief creative officer at Cookson Strategic Communications in Manchester.

This Week’s Spotlight: Cookson Strategic Communications (CSC) in Manchester hired Meredith Noyes to the newly created role of chief creative officer. Noyes, who founded and operated MSN Create in Manchester, has more than 15 years of design experience. She partnered with CSC on projects for the past 18 months and will now direct the agency’s visual communications, branding and design.

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This year marks the centennial anniversary of Breathe New Hampshire in Manchester, a nonprofit focused on issues related to lung disease and health. The organization originally formed in 1916 to help combat tuberculosis and most recently contributed to legal efforts related to smoke-free restaurants and bars law and prohibiting sales of e-cigarettes and other nicotine products to minors.
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Child and Family Services in Manchester received $10,000 from the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation to support family and mental health counseling, and home based support programs. The agency provides an array of social services to over 12,000 individuals annually.
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Concord Hospital hired Clayton Jones to its cardiac associates department. Jones completed a residency in internal medicine and cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.
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Core Physicians hired David Buono as a primary care physician at its Kingston location. Buono completed his residency at UMASS Memorial Medical Center in Massachusetts. An affiliate of Exeter Hospital, Core Physicians is a group practice with more than 70 primary care providers and 60 specialists throughout the Seacoast.
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Citizens Bank donated $7,500 to the Cross Roads House, a 96-bed emergency shelter in Portsmouth. The donation will help fund Cross Roads’ transitional shelter program. Last year, the shelter provided shelter to 513 people, including 30 families with 57 children.
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The Merrimack County Savings Bank Foundation in Concord granted $2,000 to CATCH Neighborhood Housing to help fund its Riverbend Mill rental development project in Franklin. Headquartered in Concord, CATCH provides affordable housing services to low-income individuals.
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Jewett Construction Company, Inc. in Raymond will oversee a 7,000 SF design-build addition and site upgrade project at Long Subaru in Massachusetts. The project, designed by Bruce Ronayne Hamilton Architects in New Ipswich and Summit Engineering in Portsmouth will include a new service department and service drive. It is expected to be completed by December 2016.
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McLane Middleton in Manchester hired Ramey D. Sylvester as an attorney in the firm’s Corporate Department. Sylvester received her J.D. from the University of New Hampshire School of Law in Concord and previously worked in the legal departments of several public and private corporations.
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Renovations of the primary care and oncology & chemotherapy departments at Memorial Hospital in North Conway were completed this past summer. The project took two years to complete and cost $3.5 million.
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Dianne Connolly, founder and managing partner of DM Connolly Associates in Windham, was appointed to the board of directors for the Regional Economic Development Center of Southern New Hampshire in Raymond. Connolly’s firm provides consulting services to nonprofits in the Northeast.
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Resonetics, headquartered in Nashua and with locations in Ohio and California, will open a 9,000-suare-foot facility Minnesota later this year. The company is a laser micro manufacturer for the life sciences industry, with services including laser ablating, cutting, drilling and welding.