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Leo & Alexa Vazquez, who ran Cielito’s in Bristol for the last four years, opened La Familia Mexican Bar and Grill on Tenney Mountain Highway in Plymouth.

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 The U.S. Small Business Administration named the Hannah Grimes Center in Keene as a 2023 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition Stage Two winner. The Hannah Grimes Center will receive a $150,000 cash prize to build strategic partnerships that will support the launch, growth, and scale of STEM/R&D-focused small businesses. In 2023, the SBA introduced a new two-stage format for the Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. In May, Stage One Catalyze winners, including the center, received $50,000 to build capacity and connections across the U.S. innovation ecosystem, focused on themes of national security and global competitiveness, domestic manufacturing and production, climate and renewable energy, and underserved communities. The Stage One winners were invited to apply for Stage Two of the Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. 

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Suzanne Brunelle, shareholder at Devine Millimet in Manchester, was selected by Gov. Chris Sununu to serve on the State of NH Real Estate Commission as the attorney-appointed member. 

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Bob and Maryanne Bartlet, founders of Home Air Plus, a Goffstown heating and cooling provider, are retiring after 25 years of business and partnered with Rich Jordan and Sanford Temperature Control in Milford to serve their customers.

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Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth appointed Tom Sherman, MD, to its board of directors. Sherman is a retired gastroenterologist who recently worked at Core Physicians, an affiliate of Exeter Health Resources, from 2011 to 2022.

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The Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Foundation in Dover named Tom Torr, a founding partner of Cocheco Elder Law Associates, as board chairman. Torr joined the board 2007, after serving on both the foundation’s executive and governance/nominating committees. Torr joined the board alongside his mother Ann, and is now the second generation in his family to be named chair. Ann Torr was a founding member of the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Foundation board of directors, serving as its chair from 2005 to 2010.

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Merchants Fleet, a fleet management company in Hooksett, hired Nick Hafto as regional sales manager for the Greater Indianapolis Area. He previously held strategic sales and consultative roles supporting client’s operational and financial fleet strategies at Holman and Advanced Service Solutions.

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Morrison Mahoney LLP, a litigation and business law firm based in Boston, elected nine new partners from five of its regional offices, including Justin R. Veiga in Manchester. He is lead counsel for all NH workers’ compensation matters for the firm.