Dennis J. Desnoyers has been named insurance producer for personal and commercial lines at Partners Insurance Group LLC. Desnoyers will be responsible for insurance sales and service within Partners’ Doherty division. more

Darlene DelPrato has been named professor and director of nursing for the A.S. nursing degree program at New England Institute of Technology. more

Dr. more

Molly Champagne Burke has been named compliance and privacy officer at CharterCARE Health Partners, where she will be involved in all facets compliance, privacy and ethics policy for CharterCARE and its affiliates. more

Will Thibodeau has been appointed vice president of retail lending at Greenwood Credit Union, where he will be responsible for implementing retail lending programs. more

Nancy Lapre has been named retail business officer at the Coventry branch of Bank Rhode Island. more

Michael J. Daly has been named a partner at Pierce Atwood LLP. Daly joined the firm as an associate in 2009 and currently focuses on litigation and resolution of commercial, maritime and insurance disputes. more

Sanne Kure-Jensen, administrator of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Rhode Island, was recently selected to participate in Farmland Advisors: a Training Program about Farmland Access and Farm Transfers. The two-year program, offered jointly by the American Farmland Trust and Land for Good, aims to develop effective resources for farmers and farmland owners seeking land access and farm transfers through webinars, readings, conference calls and a regional conference. She holds an MBA from Rivier College and has pursued environment-related graduate courses at the University of Rhode Island. more

CVS Caremark Corp. and the United Food & Commercial Workers union have signed a five-year cooperation agreement giving CVS/pharmacy employees at roughly 500 stores in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego the opportunity to vote on whether or not they want to be represented by the union. more

Rhode Island’s unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent for December, the lowest unemployment rate for the Ocean State since March 2009, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training said Thursday. more