Sunrise Labs, a Bedford-based company that specializes in product development for medical devices and instrumentation, appointed Bryan Gilpin as president. Gilpin has held key positions in both large and smaller medical device companies, including Boston Scientific and Haemonetics.
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Michael Crones joined FedPoint, a federal insurance and benefits administrator in Portsmouth, as chief information officer. He previously served as chief information and chief security officer at aPriori Technologies, a software as a service (SaaS)-based firm used by manufacturers during their engineering processes.
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The Children’s Museum of NH in Dover is fundraising for a $420,000 expansion on the second floor, which will add two new exhibits. This past spring, the Museum was awarded $175,000 in Tax Credits from the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA). Several businesses have purchased tax credits, including: the JGroup, ReVision Energy, Chinburg Builders, Leone, McDonnell & Roberts P.A., Meredith Village Savings Bank, Grappone Automotive Group, First Seacoast Bank, Piscataqua Savings Bank, Nathan Wechsler & Company, Newburyport Bank, Eastern Propane & Oil and Stinson Associates, CPA. The additional 1,000 square feet will include a farm-themed exhibit as well as a second, flexible exhibit that changes multiple times a year.
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Serving as project manager for the new facility into which NH Boat Museum (NHBM) will expand next year in Moultonborough, Anthony Bo recently joined the nonprofit’s board of trustees. Previous to his current venture, Yellow Dog NH, he lived and worked outside of Boston, managing both construction and management aspects of a firm that owned 1 million square feet of commercial real estate.
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Kelly Wiemer, APRN at Concord Hospital, was named 2023 Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the NH Nurse Practitioner Association. Wiemer joined the Concord Hospital health system in January 2006 as a clinical leader and staff nurse in the cardiac/respiratory unit, then moved on to the cardiac/thoracic surgery unit in 2008 as a staff nurse. In 2013, she joined the team at Family Tree Health Care in Warner in her current role as a family nurse practitioner. Wiemer also assumed the role of ambulatory informatics provider in 2016 at Concord Hospital where she helps improve provider workflows and efficiency with electronic health records.
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The Society for the Protection of NH Forests (Forest Society) named Scarlett Moberly as program director at Forest Society North at The Rocks in BethlehemMoberly will develop and implement educational, outreach, and recreational programs and events to be hosted at The Rocks in the newly renovated Carriage Barn, the outdoor amphitheater, and across the 1,400 acres of conservation land. Moberly previously served as the assistant director for the Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network (WREN) in Bethlehem
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Sheehan Phinney shareholder Andrew Eills was recently elected to the Piscataquog Land Conservancy board of trustees. The conservancy is a nonprofit, private, nationally-accredited land trust dedicated to conserving the land, water and wildlife of twenty-six communities in southern NH.
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Homeowners in Mountain View Mobile Home Park in Alton closed recently on the purchase of their 22-unit park, making it NH’s 148th resident-owned manufactured-home community. Using training and technical assistance from the NH Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH program, residents organized and formed Rock Wall Ridge Cooperative last June to buy their privately owned park.
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