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Grace Ames, Jeff Mucciarone and Lisa Cramb of Montagne Communications.

In the Spotlight: Montagne Communications in Manchester recently promoted three team members. Grace Ames was promoted to senior account executive, Jeff Mucciarone to account manager and Lisa Cramb to senior account director. Ames joined agency in 2015 after spending several years working for a Boston-based PR firm. Mucciarone joined in 2014 and had been senior news writer for The Hippo. Cramb has more than 25 years’ experience in strategic communications and marketing. She has held various marketing communications and public relations roles with organizations such as Granite State Independent Living and Capital Region Healthcare.

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Joseph Campbell, president of North Branch Construction in Concord was named chair of the board of directors for the Associated Builders and Contractors NH/VT Chapter. Campbell has been a member of the board since 2014. He was voted into the chair position at the chapter’s annual meeting.

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The Foss Family Foundation recently made a $20,000 contribution to a Concord Hospital Trust matching gift fund, which was established to provide Stop the Bleed kits in local school classrooms and common areas. The fund is designed to match any community’s or community member’s investment and then purchase kits for a specific school in Concord Hospital’s service area. Each kit contains a tourniquet, quick clot gauze and other bleeding control items.

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Employees of Leone, McDonnell & Roberts in Dover recently participated in a giving campaign aimed at helping families in need, The law firm supportied five Community Action Partnership (CAP) organizations, collecting food items for food pantries at Strafford County CAP in Dover and Southern NH Services, Southwestern Community Services in Keene, Belknap-Merrimack Counties CAP in Concord and Tri-County CAP in Berlin. 

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Bank of New Hampshire hired Michelle Blake in their Dover office as assistant VP-banking office manager. Blake has more than 15 years’ experience in the banking industry.

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U.S. Cellular hired Ann Paris as sales manager at the Concord store. Paris brings more than six years of experience in the wireless industry to U.S. Cellular.

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Millennium Agency in Manchester hired Robb Atkinson as strategic account director. Atkinson was news director for WGME Television in Portland, Maine and WATE Television in Knoxville, Tennessee, and senior director of sales and affiliate relations for CNN. Honored with two Emmy Awards for his investigative medical reporting, Atkinson also helped launch the NH1 News Network in Concord.

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NH Mutual Bancorp in Concord promoted Katrina Randlett to learning and development officer, to oversee learning and professional growth, workplace engagement and leadership development for sister banks Meredith Village Savings Bank, Merrimack County Savings Bank and Savings Bank of Walpole as well as MillRiver Wealth Management. Randlett joined Meredith Village Savings Bank in 1999 as a Teller.

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St. Mary’s Bank recently recognized employees with a combined 557 years of service to members at the President’s Club dinner at the Puritan Backroom. This year’s additions to the President’s Club include Emma Raymond, senior loan analyst, and Jung Rizzi, senior sales and service representative. Kimberly Pare, branch supervisor, was recognized for 30 years of service to St. Mary’s Bank.

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The Three Rivers Foundation has selected Justine Short of Laconia to receive a $2,400 scholarship. Short, a student at Lakes Region Community College in Laconia, is studying toward a dual major in accounting and hospitality management. She graduated from Spaulding High School in Rochester in June 2016, and began attending Lakes Region Community College in the fall of 2016. 

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Kalwall Corporation in Manchester named Matthew Demers Northern New England sales representative. Demers will be responsible for sales and client relationships in Maine, NH, Vermont and parts of Massachusetts.

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Eversource in Manchester recently presented a grant to the Front Door Agency of Nashua to support a program that provides housing and comprehensive support to single mothers and children facing homelessness and offers access to a support network to help them to achieve greater self-sufficiency.