IN SHORT

New hires

The board of directors of Frannie Peabody Center, an HIV/AIDS service organization in Portland, recently hired Megan Hannan as executive director. Hannan was previously the senior director of public affairs with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.

Saint Joseph’s College Online in Standish recently hired Suzan Nelson as director for its master of science in education program. A current adjunct of the college, Nelson has more than two decades of experience in education in Maine.

Target Marketing Maine, a direct and digital marketing company in Rockland, recently hired Allison Owens as a customer service representative. Owens has a background in direct mail sales and customer service, most recently in the nonprofit arena.

Corporate Finance Associates, an investment banking firm in Portland, recently hired Craig Allsopp. Allsopp was previously president and CEO of Internet Publishing Group where he oversaw commercial real estate and energy information services.

The directors of Macpage LLC, a CPA firm in South Portland, recently hired Keiko Myer as an audit staff accountant. Previously, Myer was an accounting supervisor at a university and an accounting coordinator at a Maine-based marketing firm.

Bar Harbor Savings and Loan Association recently hired Virginia Vendrell as vice president and treasurer. Vendrell was previously senior vice president and CFO at Bar Harbor Bank & Trust.

Shamrock Sports & Entertainment, a sports marketing firm in Portland, recently hired Andy Labesky as director of events and operations and Kevin Hooks as promotions manager. Labesky previously worked in the Georgia Tech Athletic Department. Hooks was previously with the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.

The Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership in Portland recently hired Grace Cleaves as its facilitator-trainer. Cleaves previously served as a senior executive with Coastal Enterprises Inc., and as a founder of Beyond Clinical Competence LLC, a firm that works with physicians across the United States to improve their leadership and communications skills.

Stantec, a construction and engineering consulting services firm in Scarborough, recently hired Jason Gass as an aviation planner. Gass will work on airport master plans, environmental assessments, financial studies and other analyses for airports across the country.

HistoryIT, an information technology firm in Portland, recently hired Payson Welch as senior software architect. Welch was previously with Dirigo Design & Development in Portland.

MAINE SENIORS Magazine in Bangor recently hired Michelle Eaton Nadeau as an advertising consultant. Nadeau most recently was an account executive at Stephen King’s ZONE Corp.

Eaton Peabody, a law firm in Bangor, recently hired Alfred Frawley as senior counsel. Frawley, who will be based in the firm’s Portland office, is an intellectual property attorney in the firm’s business practice.

Fluid Imaging Technologies Inc., a laboratory instrumentation manufacturer in Yarmouth, recently hired David Libby as a software engineer in the product development department in Scarborough. Libby was previously a software engineer at TD Bank.

Promotions

Bar Harbor Savings and Loan Association recently promoted Michael Bailey to assistant treasurer and assistant clerk of the board.

WBRC Architects and Engineers in Bangor recently promoted Douglas Whitney as president. Whitney has been a principal at the firm since 1989.

Maine Revenue Services recently promoted Nanette Ardry to director of the appeals division. Ardry was previously a tax policy analyst with the income/estate division.

Town and Country Federal Credit Union in Portland recently promoted Bob Leger from CFO to vice president and CFO; Pamela Kane from vice president of administration to vice president and chief administration officer; Jessica Schneckloth from collections supervisor to collections manager; and Nicole Sears from human resources manager to vice president and chief people officer.

Steve Minich was recently promoted to anchor on the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. news on Channel 8 WMTW in Portland.

The board of directors and managing principals of Thornton Tomasetti, an engineering design, investigation and analysis firm in Portland, recently promoted Michael Pulaski to senior associate and Abigail Dowd to office manager.

Auburn Savings Bank in Auburn recently promoted Melissa Record to vice president and operations officer. Record was previously the operations manager.

Appointments

The Maine Small Business Development Centers recently appointed Steve Lovejoy as the business counselor covering York County.

The University of New England recently appointed James Koelbl to provost and senior vice president, and dean of the College of Dental Medicine and Ellen Beaulieu to vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College of Graduate Studies. Both had served in these roles on an interim basis since June 1.

The Louis Berger Group, a consulting firm in Morristown, N.J., recently appointed George Campbell to vice president in the transportation engineering business unit. Campbell was previously the transportation commissioner in Maine and New Hampshire and a former mayor of Portland.

Achievements

Fisher & Phillips LLP, a labor and employment law firm in Portland, announced that five of its attorneys were named to Best Lawyers in America 2014. Regional Managing Partner Jonathan Shapiro; partners Melinda Caterine, David Strock and Eric Uhl; and Philip Moss, of counsel, were recognized. In addition, Shapiro was named Lawyer of the Year in Portland for employment law-management.

The Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness in Portland recently received a $33,000 donation from Spero Inc., a volunteer group dedicated to bettering the lives of children in New England.

Bernstein Shur, a law firm in Portland, recently announced that 57 of its attorneys were named to Best Lawyers in America 2014. In addition, Daniel Riley Jr., Edward Shumaker, Andru Volinsky, Paul Frinsko, Gordon Grimes, Robert Keach, Kenneth Lehman, Peter Rubin, Christopher Vaniotis were named as a Lawyer of the Year.

The Maine Dental Access Coalition recently received a $15,000 operating support grant from the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development recently announced that Crisis and Counseling Center Inc. in Augusta was selected to receive a Community Facility Guaranteed Loan in the amount of $1.04 million in collaboration with TD Bank. The loan will be used to purchase the facility it currently leases at 10–12 Caldwell Road.

Murray, Plumb & Murray, a law firm in Portland, recently announced that six of its attorneys were named to Best Lawyers in America 2014. Drew Anderson, John Bannon, Thomas Newman, Richard O’Meara, Peter Plumb and Michael Traister were recognized.

The Auburn-Lewiston YMCA recently received a grant from the Wal-Mart State Foundation for $25,000 for its Let’s Move Program, a national program that targets childhood obesity.

Verrill Dana, a law firm in Portland, recently announced that 57 of its attorneys were selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2014. In addition, six of its attorneys were named Lawyers of the Year, including David Abramson, Charles Bacall, Gregory Fryer, James Goggin, Mark Googins and William Harwood.

The National Endowments for the Arts recently awarded a $50,000 grant to the Association Culturelle et Historique du Mont-Carmel Design in Lille as a part of the “Our Town” grant program. The grant will support the St. John Valley Arts Heritage Initiative, a strategic cultural development effort surrounding the World Acadian Congress festival.

Bangor Savings Bank recently announced a gift of $100,000 to the Eastern Maine Medical Center Multiple Sclerosis Care in Bangor to support care for patients with multiple sclerosis.

Pierce Atwood LLP, a law firm in Portland, recently announced that 72 of its attorneys were named to Best Lawyers in America 2014. In addition, the firm had eight attorneys listed as a Lawyer of the Year, including Peter Culley, Byrne Decker, Anthony Derosby, Thomas Doyle, Ralph Lancaster Jr., Malcolm Lyons, Gloria Pinza and Warren Winslow Jr.

Bar Harbor Bank & Trust in Bar Harbor recently presented Michelle Curtis and Colleen Maynard with the 2013 Agnes Salisbury Customer Service Award. Curtis and Maynard are assistant vice president/branch relationship managers in Topsham/South China and Southwest Harbor respectively.

Girl Scouts of Maine recently announced it will present Julia Munsey with the 2013 Juliette Award. The award was established to honor a woman who embodies the essence of Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Munsey is the marketing and public relations specialist for Oxford Networks.

Rudman Winchell, a law firm in Bangor, recently announced that Paul Chaiken, David King, Frank McGuire, Edmond Bearor, George Eaton and Timothy Pease were named to Best Lawyers in America 2014. The firm also received Top Tier rankings in employment law, labor law, litigation-land use and zoning and personal injury litigation-defendants.

Five Maine hospitals recently received American Heart Association awards for achievements in heart, stroke and resuscitation care. Eastern Maine Medical Center achieved the Stroke Gold, Plus, Target Stroke award levels and Get With the Guidelines–Stroke award; Maine Medical Center, Stroke Gold award and Get With the Guidelines–Stroke award; Central Maine Medical Center, Stroke Silver Plus award and Get With the Guidelines–Stroke award; York Hospital, Stroke Gold, Heart Failure Gold Plus awards and Get With the Guidelines–Heart Failure award; and Mercy Hospital, Heart Failure Gold award and Get With the Guidelines–Heart Failure award.

MittelAsen LLC, a law firm in Portland, recently announced that Robert Mittel, Michael Asen, Peter Cary and Diane Dusini were named to Best Lawyers in America 2014. In addition, Mittel was selected as Lawyer of the Year in the area of litigation–intellectual property and Dusini was selected as Lawyer of the Year in the area of family law.

Eaton Peabody, a law firm in Bangor, recently announced that 11 of the firm’s attorneys in 18 practice categories were recently selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2014.

The Patient Safety Academy recently announced that Linda Brady and Douglas Salvador of Maine Medical Center in Portland and Kathy Day of Maine Quality Counts in Bangor were the recipients of the inaugural Rising Tide Award, which recognizes individuals or organizations who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and commitment to best practices in patient safety.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, which finances interprofessional education, practice and research initiatives, recently awarded The Center for Excellence in Interprofessional Education at the University of New England a $35,000 President’s Grant. The grant is an investment in bridging campus-based interprofessional education with practice environments in the community.

The National Science Foundation recently awarded John Stubbs, a University of New England associate professor of chemistry, a $150,000 grant to continue his research on DNA modeling. Stubbs’ research project, entitled “RUI: Molecular Simulation of DNA Interactions in Oligonucleotide Microarrays,” has extensive biomedical, forensic and environmental applications.

Lipman & Katz P.A., recently announced that Sumner Lipman and Roger Katz were named to Best Lawyers in America 2014.

The David Banks Team with RE/MAX By The Bay in Portland was recently rated No. 16 of the Top 100 RE/MAX Teams in the nation.

Camp Sunshine, a retreat in Casco for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families, recently received a four-star rating and the highest overall score among Maine charities for fiscal management, oversight and transparency from Charity Navigator, a national charity evaluator.

Preti Flaherty, a law firm in Portland, recently announced that 38 of its attorneys were selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2014. In addition, Charles Dingman and David Van Slyke were selected as Lawyers of the Year in administrative/regulatory law and litigation-environmental, respectively.

The University of New England recently announced that Eleanor Baker, managing principal, Baker Newman Noyes; Anne Lynch, executive director of The Center for Grieving Children; Lois Galgay Reckitt, executive director, Family Crisis Services; and Barbara Vereault, Penobscot Community Health Center will be honored as outstanding Maine women of achievement at the university’s 52nd annual Deborah Morton Convocation and Awards Ceremony in September.

People’s United Community Foundation, the philanthropic arm of People’s United Bank in Portland, recently announced that it awarded a total of $34,500 to five Maine nonprofits. Fair Tide Inc., in Kittery; Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine; Coastal Enterprises in Wiscasset; and Goodwill Industries of Northern New England and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland were the recipients.

Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution recently announced that it made a gift of $13,000 in the past quarter to local food assistance programs across southern Maine.

Kennebunk Savings recently made a $10,000 contribution and became a season sponsor of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art as it celebrates its 60th anniversary. This year the museum will present a special Andy Warhol exhibit and a series of events highlighting its collection of local and nationally celebrated art.

Day One, an agency preventing and treating adolescent substance abuse in South Portland, recently announced it was awarded a one-year grant from United Way of York County totaling $20,700. The funds will support the Natural Helpers of Maine program in Bonny Eagle High School and the James C. Harrod Residential Treatment Center in Hollis.