Newsmakers: Feb. 19, 2012

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February 19, 2012

Anonymous Press-Republican The Press Republican Sun Feb 19, 2012, 02:28 AM EST

Sheriff Richard Cutting of the Essex County Sheriff's Office completed participation in the 100th session of the National Sheriffs Institute held in Longmont, Colo. It is the only national executive development program designed for sheriffs. This no-cost program is cosponsored by the National Institute of Corrections and the National Sheriffs Association. Cutting is the first sheriff of Essex County to graduate from the institute. He joined 23 other sheriffs from across the country for training on contemporary challenges facing America's sheriffs today. They explored the role of effective leadership for the public good in such areas as public safety, criminal-justice system policy, community relations and organization effectiveness and efficiency.

The executive director of the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, Stephanie Ratcliffe, was named to the Board of the Association of Science-Technology Centers during its international conference in Baltimore. Ratcliffe and other new board members — from Bogota, Columbia; Christchurch, New Zealand; and Phoenix, Arizona — join the 18-member board for three years. Ratcliffe was a featured presenter at the convention, presenting ways that science centers can play a pivotal role in advancing scientific understanding in their communities.

Kerry Connolly, CEO of Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York, recently announced the addition of three new members to the organization's 15-member Board of Directors, which serves the 15 counties of the council: Carol Bosco, department chair of nursing at Hudson Valley Community College; Kevin O'Brien, retired director of the Office of Driver Safety for the State Department of Motor Vehicles; and Pamela H. Hannan, a nurse consultant for Living Resources Corp. New officers of the board include Chair Ellen C. Schell, counsel at The Legal Project in Albany, and secretary Courtney Moore, a mechanical engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Lab. Board members are elected to an initial two-year term.