Vermont Sets the Standard
Montpelier — General Mills’ announcement on Friday that it will start labeling products that contain genetically modified ingredients to comply with a Vermont law shows food companies might be giving up the fight against labels, even as they hold out hope Congress will find a national solution. Tiny Vermont is the first state to require such labeling, effective July 1. Its fellow New England states of Maine and Connecticut have passed...
People in Business: March 13, 2016
Katie Blake, of Grantham, has joined Ledyard National Bank as branch manager at the bank’s New London location. Blake has more than 20 years of customer service experience, including multiple years in retail management, and has been in banking for the past four years. Prior to joining Ledyard National Bank, she held supervisory roles at People’s United Bank and Citizens Bank. The Valley News recognizes the achievements of members of...
At the Hospitals: Dec. 20, 2015
Director of PTSD Center Honored White River Junction — Paula Schnurr, executive director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, received the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Lifetime Achievement Award last month at the organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans. The society’s highest honor, the award is given to someone who has made “great lifetime contributions to...
Power Lunch: A Conversation With Kathy Underwood, President and CEO of Ledyard National Bank
Over an arugula salad and coffee, the president and chief executive officer of Ledyard National Bank discusses how she started as a part-time teller, her work on the advisory board of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and why she recently walked 18,000 steps in Washington, many of them in her hotel room. Impressive and irreverent is how I’d describe Kathy Underwood, one of the Upper Valley’s most prominent bankers. “You did...
Repository Brims With Seized Wildlife Items
Commerce City, Colo. — Elephant tusks, leopard heads, crocodile skin purses and tiger skins — more than 1.5 million items in all — fill the shelves of a warehouse on a wildlife refuge near Denver. The National Wildlife Property Repository is the only place in the United States that stores such a large collection of seized wildlife items. It provides a macabre look at the cost of the global trafficking of endangered and threatened...
