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Jason Gagnon, a CPA at Howe, Riley & Howe and treasurer of the Manchester Young Professionals Network.

This Week’s Spotlight: Jason Gagnon, a CPA at Howe, Riley & Howe, was appointed treasurer of the Manchester Young Professionals Network (MYPN) for a three-year term. Gagnon previously served on MYPN’s New Hampshire Startup Challenge Committee. Howe, Riley & Howe has offices in Manchester and Portsmouth.

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Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene hired Martin Gross and Erik Pattison to its urology department. Gross completed a urology residency at Boston Medical Center, while Pattison completed his residency in urology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.

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CJ Architects relocated to 233 Vaughan St. in Portsmouth, a mixed-use residential/commercial building the firm designed.  Founded in 2002, CJ Architects outgrew its office at Market Square in Portsmouth, where it was headquartered for 14 years.

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DuBois & King, a engineering firm with offices in Bedford, Laconia and Vermont, hired Taylor Glidden as a staff engineer. Glidden is a graduate of Clarkson University in New York and will work in the public works division of the firm’s Laconia office.

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This year, Holy Rosary Credit Union (HRCU) in Rochester reached 20,000 members, and will hold a member appreciation day on Sept. 30 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Members will be able to participate in giveaways, coffee and refreshments at HRCU’s branches in Rochester, Farmington and Dover.

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Lakes Region Community College in Laconia partnered with Toyota USA to purchase eight new vehicles through the Toyota T-TEN Dollar-Sale Program. LRCC will begin offering the Toyota Technician Training and Education Program in late August 2017.

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Landmark Benefits Inc. relocated its corporate office to 183 Rockingham Road in Windham. Founded in Hampstead in 1997, Landmark Benefits provides health, dental, life and disability insurance to companies throughout New England. The firm insures more than 6,500 employees.

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Leadership Seacoast received $3,000 from Bank of NH through a 2017 underwriting sponsorship. The funds will help the organization further develop its six-month experiential learning program for seacoast business leaders.

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The Mayhew Program in Bristol received a $5,000 grant from the Lincoln Financial Foundation to provide 233 at-risk NH boys with residential summer programming and school year mentoring. The program, a member agency of the Granite and Monadnock United Ways, offers tuition-free mentoring programs to boys through their high school graduation.

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This fall, Meredith Village Savings Bank (MVSB) will open its 12th office location at 448 Governor John Wentworth Highway, next to the Melvin Village Post Office. Robyn Masteller, regional VP for the eastern region for MVSB, will oversee the new location.

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Harry Cheema, the first franchise partner of Mr. Mac’s Macaroni and Cheese, is opening a Mr. Mac’s at 2600 Lafayette Road in Portsmouth. The location is a former Pizza Hut, and renovation of the building is already underway for a planned opening in the next months. This is the first of three Mr. Mac’s locations that Cheema plans to open in NH and northern Massachusetts.

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Northern Community Investment Corporation (NCIC), a Community Development Corporation with offices in Lancaster and Vermont, hired Mark Butterfield as business resource manager. Butterfield has 25 years of commercial lending and economic development experience, most recently working at the Omni Mt. Washington Resort in Bretton Woods. He will work as the primary lending agent for NCIC.