IN SHORT

New hires

RE/MAX Shoreline, a real estate agency in Portland, hired Crystal Tropeano. Tropeano was previously a real estate broker in Massachusetts.

Mary Beth (Boland) Haut has been named president and chief executive officer of Acadia Trust NA, the wealth management subsidiary of Camden National Corp. She will be based at Acadia Trust’s Portland offices, located at 5 Milk St., and will lead all of its investment and trust services throughout Maine and New England. She was previously at Citizens Private Bank, the private banking division of Citizens Bank, where she served as senior vice president and market executive for Massachusetts.

The Island Institute in Rockland hired Marydale Abernathy as vice president of media and communications. Abernathy was most recently principal of Highermind Mediaworks.

The Institute for Humane Education in Surry hired Barbara Fiore as director of its Solutionary Congress Program, a school-based initiative through which students learn about and solve real-world challenges. Fiore was previously an instructor and program director at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Camden.

P&C Insurance in Westbrook hired Phillip Smith as commercial insurance executive and Chrissy Rioux as account manager for commercial lines. Smith was previously an insurance agent with Northern Insurance Group of Portland while Rioux was with C.N. Brown.

The Kids First Center, a nonprofit agency in Portland that helps children and parents cope with the effects of separation and divorce, hired Nicolle Carbone as executive director. Carbone was previously a manager at the Maine Judicial Branch.

The city of Portland hired Jason Shedlock as special assistant to the mayor. Shedlock most recently served as the deputy director of emergency management and board of health for the Sagadahoc County Emergency Management Agency in Bath.

C&L Aviation Group in Bangor hired Pat Lemieux as director of marketing. Lemieux has more than a decade of experience building brand awareness and audience development for both media companies and nonprofits.

PDT Architects in Portland hired Matthew Pitzer as project manager for commercial and historic preservation projects. Pitzer was with the Knickerbocker Group in Portland.

Franklin Health Women’s Care and Franklin Memorial Hospital hired Jacques Belair as a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist. Belair was previously with OB Hospitalist Group at two California locations, in Mountain View and Salinas.

The Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park hired Nicholas Fisichelli as forest ecology program director. Fisichelli was previously with the National Park Service Climate Change Response Program.

Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp. in Bangor, hired Abram Treadwell as account executive for personal lines and Sean Doyle as account executive for commercial lines. Treadwell and Doyle will be based in the firm’s Lewiston office.

Androscoggin Bank in Lewiston hired Ruth Martin as an assistant vice president and the manager of the bank’s Portland and Gray branches. Martin was previously an assistant vice president and financial services manager at People’s United Bank.

Diversified Communications, an international media company in Portland, hired Heather Laverrier as a project manager and Nathan Coffren as a data analyst.

University College, a unit of the University of Maine at Augusta in Presque Isle, hired Heather Nunez-Olmstead as instructional design specialist. Nunez-Olmstead was with the Carleton Project of Presque Isle, a non-traditional educational program.

Promotions

Bar Harbor Savings and Loan Association promoted Ardette Spear to internal IT specialist. Spear has been with the bank since 1988.

CHANS Home Health Care in Brunswick promoted Debra Bennett to executive director. Bennett was previously senior director of operations.

Gould Academy in Bethel promoted Kurt Simard to director of on-snow programs. Simard has served as the school’s alpine program director and head alpine coach since 2007.

Stantec, an engineering and architecture firm in Scarborough, promoted Tim Merritt to senior associate and Gregg Cohen and Jim Stewart to associates. Merritt leads the firm’s surface transportation team; Cohen specializes in National Environmental Policy Act compliance; and Stewart has nearly 30 years of environmental engineering experience, mainly focused on downstream petroleum industries.

Shamrock Sports & Entertainment in Portland promoted Brian Corcoran to CEO, Carl Hansson to president and COO and Brian Wold to account director. Corcoran had been president since the firm’s launch in January 2010, Hansson was chief strategic officer and Wold was an account manager.

TD Bank promoted Nicholas McCrillis to vice president, relationship manager in commercial banking in Portland. McCrillis was previously a credit analyst in commercial credit management.

U.S. Cellular promoted Jonathan Isacco to store manager in Bangor and Timothy Belden to store manager in Presque Isle. Isacco was most recently store manager in Presque Isle while Belden was sales manager in Presque Isle.

Maine State Credit Union in Augusta promoted Shane Abbott to teller supervisor at its Capitol Street branch. Abbott was previously in the credit union’s indirect lending department.

Hartt Transportation Systems Inc. in Bangor promoted Jeff Castonguay to president. Castonguay was previously general manager.

Appointments

The Maine Innkeepers Association in Augusta elected Jean Ginn Marvin of the Nonantum Resort as chair of its board of directors. Jeanne Carpentier of Emerald Hospitality will serve as past chair; Jamey Kitchen, Hampton Inn & Suites in Thomaston, first vice chair; Scott Cowger, Maple Hill Farm B&B Inn in Hallowell, second vice chair; Bob Smith, Sebasco Harbor Resort in Sebasco Estates, treasurer; Chip Gray, Harraseeket Inn in Freeport and Matthew Levin, Lord Camden Inn in Camden, at-large members; and Ron Churchill, Bear Spring Camps in Rome, senior advisor. In addition, Cowger and Kitchen will serve as legislative chairs and Phil Kronenthal from the Migis Hotel Group was added to the executive committee.

SIS Bank in Sanford said that Todd Baker was appointed to its board of directors. Baker is the founder and president of Baker Properties in Portsmouth, N.H.

Clark Insurance in Portland elected David Hamilton to its board of directors. Hamilton joined the agency in 2008. The firm also announced that Gregg Ritter was elected a fiduciary of Clark Insurance’s employee stock ownership plan trust. Ritter is an agency vice president.

Coastal Enterprises Inc., a lender and investor specializing in rural economic development based in Brunswick, announced that Joshua Davis and Regina Phillips were named to its board of directors. Davis is the co-founder and CEO of Gelato Fiasco, while Phillips is the refugee services program coordinator for the city of Portland.

Linda Riddell, population health scientist and principal at Health Economy LLC, a health data firm in Cape Elizabeth, joined the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal, Population Health Management. The journal is published six times annually by the Thomas Jefferson University School of Public Health of Philadelphia.

Gov. Paul R. LePage reappointed Martha Harris to the state Board of Education for a second five-year term. Harris, who has served on the board since 2010 including one year as vice chair and as chair of the board since July 2015, is a lawyer in Bangor. John Bird and Wilson Hess also joined the board for five-year terms and Elise McKendry, as student representative, for a two-year term. Bird spent 29 years as an educator and administrator while Hess is a former president of the University of Maine at Fort Kent.

Achievements

Oxford Networks, a telecommunications company in Lewiston, won a Client Reference of the Year Award from IBM for a testimonial on how the company uses IBM’s Power8 processor-based technology to attract and retain cloud customers.

Connie Jones was the recipient of the 2016 Ikaria Award for contributions toward improving the lives of older adults at the 2016 Fill the Plate Breakfast held recently in Lewiston. Jones is a gerontologist at SeniorsPlus, an agency on aging located in Lewiston.

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that Margo Walsh was selected to receive the Small Business Person of the Year award for Maine. Walsh is owner of MaineWorks LLC, a temporary employment agency in Portland that places workers on construction, bridge and road building sites. Additional Maine winners of the annual awards included: William Wedge, president, Will’s Shop ‘n Save in Dover-Foxcroft, Veteran Owned Small Business of the Year for Maine and New England; Michelle Ann Hanson, Frederick’s Southside in Caribou, Woman Owned Small Business of the Year Award for Maine; Ellen Thayer, owner, Love Rocks Me in South Portland, Home-Based Business of the Year Award for Maine and New England; Masahiko Miyake, chef and owner, Miyake in Portland, Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year Award for Maine and New England; Getchell Brothers Inc. in Bangor, Jeffrey Butland Family Owned Business Award for Maine and New England; James Gallagher, owner, Whoopie Pie Café in Bangor, Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Maine; Jennifer Crosby, owner, Endless Possibilities Child Care in Sangerville, Micro-Enterprise of the Year Award for Maine; Jayne Crosby Giles, president, MaineStream Finance, Financial Services Champion award for Maine and New England; and Thomas Myers, president, Anatomy Trains in Walpole, Small Business Exporter of the Year Award for Maine.

Fontaine Family – The Real Estate Leader in Auburn recently held its annual awards. Clayton Larochelle captured the “sales leader” citation with 75 closed units and nearly $14 million in sales; “peak producer” accolades went to Bill Bergeron with 57 closed units and $10.5 million in sales; and “outstanding achiever” awards went to Pat Long-Cressey, with 35 closed units and nearly $6 million in sales, and Cindy Morin, with 31 closed units and $3.5 million in sales. Other multi-million dollar producers were Beth Favreau, Charmaine Raby, Harriet Cummings and Dawn Marston. Million-dollar producers were Diane Brule and Megan Fortin.

Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution recently awarded Mary Jane Sawyer the 2015 A. William Kany Jr. Community Service Award. Sawyer is customer relations officer in the Saco branch.

Bryan Dench released the first in a series of six books titled “How to Work with Your Lawyer: The Law in Six Minutes Series (Volume 1).” Dench is chairman of the board of directors of Skelton Taintor & Abbott, a law firm in Auburn.

The Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport received the 2016 Award for Tourism Leadership & Growth at the Maine Governor’s Conference on Tourism for its Fire + Ice event held in mid-December.

Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland won the Make a Difference and the Make it Right Awards of Excellence at HiltonWorldwide’s global brand awards.

CRN, a brand of The Channel Co., named Systems Engineering in Portland to its 2016 Tech Elite 250 list. This annual list honors North American IT solution providers that have earned the highest number of advanced technical certifications from leading technology vendors.

Derek Pierce, principal of Casco Bay High School in Portland, was named Maine’s National Association of Secondary School Principals’ “Principal of the Year” for 2016 according to the Maine Principals’ Association.

Kevin Doran was selected as a 2016 Outstanding Educator Honoree by Project Learning Tree. Doran is a natural science educator with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry in Augusta.

Coutts Bros., an electrical construction/maintenance contractor in Randolph, won a 2015 National Safety Merit Award from the Associated Builders and Contractors.

The Maine Warden Service named Tom McKenney, a game warden in the Norridgewock district, its 2015 Maine Game Warden of the Year at its annual awards banquet. Other winners included Jeremy Judd K9 Tundra, Mechanic Falls, K9 Search and Rescue of the Year Award; Kris MacCabe K9 Morgan, Wilton, K9 Conservation Case of the Year Award; Auburn Fire Chief Frank Roma, Lieutenant Chris Morretto and Erik Poland received Maine Warden Association Merit Awards; Richard Longley, Anson, Legendary Game Warden Award; Lieutenant Dan Scott, Hampden, Division C – Bangor, Supervisor of the Year; and David Delorme, Colonel’s Award. In addition, Exemplary Service Awards were presented to Aaron Cross, Morrill; Alan Gillis, Orrington; Bruce Loring, Enfield; Ethan Buuck, Mt. Vernon; Kris MacCabe, Wilton; Tony Gray, Oxford; Dave Chabot, Greene; Maine State Trooper Jason Wing; Tim Coombs, Stoneham; Dave Ross, China; Eric Rudolph, Ellsworth; Dave Georgia, Greenfield TWP; Phil Richter, Lamoine; Kyle Hladik and Bob Johansen, Millinocket; Troy Dauphinee, Shirley; Chad Robertson, Madison; Andrew Smart, Ashland; and Charles Brown, Dyer Brook.

Karen Jones, a sales associate with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Portland, was recognized for her 2015 sales production with the Coldwell Banker International President’s Circle award.

WeddingWire, an online wedding marketplace, named Grey Havens Inn in Georgetown as a winner of its Couples’ Choice Awards 2016 for Ceremony and Reception Venue in Maine.