New Businesses

Bevtown Gallery, a fine arts gallery run by Nichelle Whalen, recently opened at 197 Cabot St. in Beverly.

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LeTip International Inc., a business networking organization, is opening a new chapter in Peabody that will meet initially every Wednesday in Danvers at the EXIT Reliance Realty building.

Milestones

Carol Kent Yacht Charters in Marblehead was recently welcomed as a new member of the Marblehead Chamber of Commerce.

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The Essex County Bar Association, at its annual dinner meeting, which was held at the Ipswich Country Club, recently presented a "Lawyer for the Day" award to retired Essex Probate First Justice Edward J. Rockett. In addition, Attorney Donald R. Bumiller was elected president of the association.

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Woodbridge Assisted Living in Peabody recently awarded Lynnfield resident Eadie Sands with the 2008 Mass Alfa Super Star Award for her volunteer work at the facility.

Giving

Edward L. Widronak, a Peabody dentist, recently volunteered on the Massachusetts Dental Society Foundation's Mobile Access to Care Van, which traveled to the Pettengill House in Salisbury. The Van, a dental clinic on wheels, has traveled across Massachusetts since February 2007 providing free dental care to underserved children.

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All Danversbank branches are accepting donations to a school supply drive for the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless until Aug. 15. Backpacks, pencils, pens, rulers, staplers, folders, notebooks and any new school supplies are welcome.

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RE/MAX Village Properties of Topsfield has joined the Children's Miracle Network. RE/MAX associates will donate a portion of every commission they earn to the Network, which gives the funds to Children's Hospital Boston.

People

Cynthia Merkle of Swampscott was recently promoted to executive vice president for customer service, including the corporate call center and the compliance and operational risk department, at Eastern Bank.

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Joseph Riley of Peabody was recently promoted to executive vice president for retail banking, overseeing all aspects of sales, service and branch operations, at Eastern Bank.

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Beth Zschau of Manchester, a horticulturist, has accepted the position of horticultural educator for the Trustees of Reservations' northeast region.

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Donald Bowen Jr. of Meridian Associates in Beverly, Anthony Fusco of Glovsky and Glovsky in Beverly, and Brenda Smith of Brenda J. Smith Consulting in Marblehead, were recently elected as new corporators at Beverly Cooperative Bank.

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Mary Lou Crane was recently appointed elder care advisor at SeniorCare, Inc., a social service agency serving the communities of Beverly, Essex, Gloucester, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Topsfield, Rockport and Wenham.

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Donna Stanton of Salem has been named an assistant/receptionist for Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts.

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Dr. John A. Patti of the North Shore Medical Center was elected vice chairman of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors during the ACR's 85th annual meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

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Dennis Wassung Jr. was recently hired as an equity analyst at Cabot Money Management, an independent fee-only wealth management firm based in Salem.

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Andrew Carpentier, a recent graduate of Fitchburg State College, has joined Cummings Architects of Ipswich.

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Carolanne Cavalieri, Marblehead resident and business owner of Marketing and PR Solutions, has been named Public Relations/Public Education Liaison for the Licensed Private Detectives Association of Massachusetts, a not-for-profit organization.

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Erin Cyr, owner of Whole Soul Healing in Beverly, will graduate from Goddard College this summer with a bachelor's degree in health arts and sciences.

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Kevin T. Bottomley, president of Danversbank, was recently elected chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Bankers Association for a one-year term.

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Robert Rosen, who was previously vice president of commercial lending at the North Shore Bank in Peabody, was recently named the new senior loan officer at the Massachusetts Community Development Finance Corporation.

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John Fletcher and Claudia Kaufman of Marblehead and Jim Regis of Salem were elected new members to the Board of Directors at the annual meeting of the Marblehead Arts Association on June 18 in the King Hooper Garden.