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In the Spotlight: The leadership team at The Way Home, a Manchester non-profit that helps low-income households obtain and sustain safe, affordable housing, has changed. Mary Sliney, (left) the organization’s founder, was named COO/programs, Elizabeth Green (center), formerly the finance manager, was named CFO and Bianka Beaudoin (right), development/operations director, was appointed to the CEO position.

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Smuttynose Brewing Co. in Hampton is opening Smuttlabs Brewery & Kitchen, a test kitchen and craft brewery in Dover. This is the “first physical outpost” of its Smuttlabs experimental beer program, featuring limited batch draft beers rotating constantly, with new offerings on a regular basis. To-go beer will also be available for purchase.

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Café la Reine in Manchester is now using Flight Coffee Co. of Bedford, as its primary roaster. Owner Alexandra Horton, opened the shop in 2013 when, as a recent college graduate, she saw a need for a community space in the city.

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Senet, Inc., a provider of cloud-based software and services platforms in Portsmouth, won an IoT [Internett of Things] Global Award for Business Excellence for its patent-pending Low Power Wide Area Virtual Network.

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Easterseals NH in Manchester received a $10,000 Grant for Good from Eastern Bank to support two Manchester-based Child Development Centers that focus on early education. The grant is part of a $1 million commitment Eastern has made to local nonprofit organizations.

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Dartmouth College Professor of Engineering Petra Bonfert-Taylor was named to the 2020 class of the Association for Women in Mathematics Fellows for her work in development and study of programs building inclusivity in STEM.

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Nancy Mardin, assistant VP, branch and business development manager for Meredith Village Savings Bank Plymouth office, is retiring after 15 years with the bank.

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Mainstay Technologies in Manchester, an IT and information security firm, hired Corey Hoyt as its marketing and communications manager.

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St. Paul’s School in Concord hired Bruce N. Smith as chief development officer. Before joining St. Paul’s, he was the associate VP for development and academic coordination at Dartmouth College in Hanover.

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SkyTerra Technologies, an IT cloud advisory, and development firm in Nashua named Valerie Rogers its controller.

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The New England Council honored U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan at its recent New Englander of the Year Awards. Also honored were Margaret Brennan, of CBS News and Face the Nation; Roger Crandall, chairman, president and CEO of MassMutual; and Jerry Remy, Red Sox Color Analyst for NESN.

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NH Community Loan Fund co-founder Michael Swack was given the 2019 Ned Gramlich Lifetime Achievement Award for Responsible Finance. His work at the Carsey School of Public Policy (at UNH) focuses on building scale in the nonprofit community development sector, innovations in community development finance, microfinance, and new models of social enterprise.