Hanover
Trimarco is an environmental attorney with a decade of experience in the field. She is a Dartmouth College graduate and longtime member of the Dartmouth Outing Club. Trimarco is an avid outdoorswoman, coaching Ford Sayre Nordic skiing for children in kindergarten through second grade, which has fueled her passion for conservation.
“Through my work I have come to value the conservation of land as one of the purest and most effective forms of environmental protection,” she said in a news release. “I believe it is our duty to do what we can to protect and preserve the environment and our climate, for ourselves and for future generations.”
At the organization’s annual meeting in November, conservancy members elected Ann Malenka, Jay Pierson and Jim Wooster to second terms and thanked Mary Sloat, who stepped down from the board.
Manchester (ap)
Bernadette Jao will become the director of patient and nursing services on Jan. 22.
Her hiring is among many changes being made following a Boston Globe report in July about allegations that included a fly-infested operating room, surgical instruments that weren’t always sterilized and patients whose conditions were ignored.
Jao has 17 years of experience and most recently served as nurse leader and a member of senior leadership at the Wilmington VA Medical Center in Delaware.
She holds a doctorate in nursing practice and is board certified as a psychiatric and mental health nurse.
Portsmouth, N.H. (ap)
Connecticut-based Manafort Brothers, Inc., began mercury and asbestos abatement and demolition at the power plant last year.
OSHA said Friday it found Manafort wasn’t taking steps to reduce mercury exposure and protect workers. It cited Manafort for eight violations concerning mercury, respirators, protective clothing and sanitary conditions.
Manafort said it stopped work at Schiller in June over concern about possible mercury exposure so that it could assess the situation, along with experts and consultants. It cooperated with OSHA in its investigation. Manafort restarted work in September, following a review of work procedures and employee practices; it felt its employees were protected.
Lyndonville, VT. (ap)
Police say they have not found the driver of the vehicle that hit the woman. Police temporarily closed Route 5. Few details have been released and state police are notifying the women’s kin.
Berlin, Vt. (ap)
Residents of Weston’s Mobile Home Park in Berlin voted unanimously Wednesday to purchase the 83-lot park from owner Ellery Packard for $2.1 million. The Times Argus reports the residents also authorized their nonprofit housing cooperative to borrow about $2.3 million and approved a series of documents that will govern the cooperative.
Annika Paul, a consultant with the Cooperative Development Institute said the cooperative should acquire the park before the end of the year in a finalized deal.
Paul said the park’s current tenants won’t be required to become members, though the hope is that most if not all of them will.
— Staff and wire reports