In the Spotlight: Gilford Village Knolls III has been officially declared the first affordable multi-family building in New Hampshire to be Passive House Certified by the Passive House Institute U.S.
Developed by Lakes Region Community Developers, the project is 24 affordable apartments for seniors. Passive House buildings on average use 86 percent less energy for heating and 46 percent less for cooling than buildings constructed to regular code. An 86.4kW solar array on the roof means that building will produce more energy than it uses.
At right: Kara LaSalle, LRCD real estate development project manager and Sal Steven-Hubbard, real estate development director in front of Gilford Village Knolls III.
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Pentucket Bank, with branches in Salem and Hempstead, promoted Amy Barcelos to VP/projects and training manager.
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North Branch Construction of Concord completed a $13 million renovation of Rockingham Village Apartments (formerly known as Cimarron Apartments) located just off Interstate 95 on Batchelder Road in Seabrook.
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Emily Burns, MD, of Home Health and Hospice Care in Merrimack has earned her board certification in hospice and palliative care from the American Board of Family Medicine, which recognizes a physician who has met the highest standards of practice in a medical specialty.
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Frederick’s Pastries was named a 2019 winner of The Knot Best of Weddings award, an accolade representing the highest and most-rated wedding professionals as reviewed by real couples, their families and wedding guests.
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People's United Bank has acquired VAR Technology Finance, a private, independent leasing and finance company that supports equipment sales through its financing programs within the technology channel for small, medium and large technology manufacturers, software companies and resellers.
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Peabody & Smith Realty hired Paty Ciotto to work in their Meredith office.
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Maine-based Wireless Partners, LLC added T-Mobile 4G LTE service to their cellular network spanning NH’s North Country and Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
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UMass Lowell’s Jill Portnoy of Portsmouth received a national award for her research in criminology from the American Society of Criminology.
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation awarded more than $1.25 million in grants to 885 nonprofit organizations in more than 350 communities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire in 2018. The grants include $616,065 in third-year grants to 20 not-for-profit community food access initiatives, $38,000 in Healthy Aging grants and $271,000 to support five mobile farmers’ markets.
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