Edith P. “Heidi” Simmons was recently honored at a reception commending her for her many years of service as a public-school teacher and as an elected member of the Stonington Board of Education .
Since mid-July, the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut has been running an eight-week Entrepreneurship Academy at the New London Public Library.
The initial hope, said Tony Sheridan, president and CEO of the chamber, was to attract a cohort of 25 aspiring entrepreneurs to the program’s inaugural class.
Instead, the chamber eventually capped enrollment at 42.
At its July meeting, the board of the United Way of Southeastern Connecticut voted to elect Ornet Hines of Liberty Bank as a member.
Hines, assistant vice president and a branch manager at Liberty, ha.
Amber L. Moore, CPA, has been promoted to partner at
Goldblatt Bokoff LLC of Norwich. Moore, who joined the firm in 2011, has been active on various committees of the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants and was recently elected to the CTCPA Board of Directors and as Chair of the Advisory Council. She earned her Bachelor s and Master s degrees in Accounting at the University of Connecticut and is a 2019 graduate of the Eastern CT Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program.
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Daniel J. Horgan will serve as president-elect of the Connecticut Bar Association. Officers were installed for the 2021-2022 bar year at its virtual annual meeting on June 15. Horgan is with the
The round-the-clock efforts of a largely remote workforce establishes Chelsea Groton as leader in PPP Loans, Mortgages and Places to Work in Eastern CT
GROTON, Conn. /Massachusetts Newswire – National News/ Chelsea Groton Bank reported impressive financial, educational, technical and community-based accomplishments at its 166th Annual Meeting which was conducted over Zoom on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. President and CEO Michael Rauh presented the Bank’s 2020 results to Bank officers, Board members and Corporators.
“Our focus has always been on helping individuals, families and businesses succeed in big ways and small by putting more effort into everything we do. Our team was incredibly focused on the needs of our customers, and doing whatever it took to help them succeed in the most challenging circumstances,” shared Rauh. “The result was a banner year from a financial perspective, but more importantly, a year where we were everything a community bank is meant to be – a