* Connecticut
Kostin, Ruffkess & Co. LLC, Farmington, will merge in Themistos & Dane PC, Springfield, Mass., effective Sept. 1.
* Massachusetts
G.T. Reilly & Co., Milton, a six-partner firm with 30 employees, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The firm was founded after WWII by ex-G.I. Gerald T. Reilly, whose first major client was a then-small ice cream vendor called Howard Johnson Co.
* Missouri
Rubin, Brown, Gornstein & Co., St. Louis, has rebranded itself RubinBrown LLP.
* Texas
Weaver and Tidwell LLP, Fort Worth, was given Marketing Achievement Awards in two categories - for firm brochure and sales presentation - from the Association for Accounting Marketing at its annual conference. Firm practice growth director René Stranghoner was named Marketing Rookie of the Year.
