Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Co. announced the appointments of Blake Jones to vice president and marketing director and Jillian Cutrone to assistant vice president and communications manager.
As marketing director, Jones will manage the marketing team and oversee the company’s marketing strategy. She most recently served as vice president of communications and has been with the bank for five years.
Jones has nearly 15 years of experience in communications, including a background in journalism. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from Washington and Lee University and is active in the community through service on various local nonprofit committees.
As communications manager, Cutrone will be responsible for corporate communications, media relations and developing content for advertising and marketing campaigns. She will report to Jones.
Cutrone joins the company’s Marketing Department with close to 15 years of experience. She most recently managed communications for a leading global technology brand and holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and history from the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa.
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Longtime Lake Theatre actor and director, Jarel Davidow has been named as the Lake Theatre’s new artistic director.
Davidow is familiar to Lake Theatre audiences for his onstage roles in “The Love List,” “Moonlight And Magnolias” and “The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged).” He also directed 2016’s “Almost Maine” and last season’s “The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis Mccauly Fishing Derby.”
Davidow has been a member of the Oberon Theatre Ensemble and Resonance Ensemble in New York City. His credits also include The Know Theatre in Binghamton; the Bickford Theatre in New Jersey; the New England Shakespeare Festival and The Great American Melodrama in California. He is a member of Actors’ Equity, the union of professional actors and stage managers.
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Two area residents were recipients of Adirondack Health Institute’s 2017 Rural Health Champion awards.
The annual recognition program is a collaborative effort of four of the North Country’s Rural Health Networks, including the Adirondack Rural Health Network (ARHN), a program of AHI supported with funds from the state Department of Health Charles D. Cook Office of Rural Health.
Honorees included Carol Byron, care coordinator, Glens Falls Hospital Family Health Center, who received the Rural Health Champion, Healthcare Collaboration award.
Also honored was Kim Cook, president and CEO of the Open Door Mission in Glens Falls. She received the Rural Health Champion, Community Impact award.