Norwich — A leadership succession plan in the works for 13 years at Reliance Health has been put in action, with a vote Monday night, when the nonprofit agency that serves people with mental illness named 25-year employee Carrie Dyer as the successor to its first and only executive director so far, David Burnett.

Dyer, 46, who has served as the organization's chief operating officer since 2007, called Reliance Health the only place she wanted to work since the day she walked into the agency’s doors at 40 Broadway in the spring of 1994 with a degree in therapeutic recreation from the University of New Hampshire. Read more...