Bangor Savings Bank

A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements at businesses, nonprofits, health care operations and professional services firms in Maine.

Participants will include the CEOs of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce, as well as the president of MEREDA and the CEO of Bangor Savings Bank.

The donations will help fund improvements to the hospital’s main campus in Bar Harbor, including an expanded emergency department, main entrance and ambulance bay.

The robberies occurred within four days of each other, at Kennebec Savings on Baxter Boulevard and Bangor Savings on Brighton Avenue. Police are still investigating and will not comment on whether the two cases are related.

Bangor Savings and Kennebec Savings banks recently added to their ranks with new hires.

Newcastle-based Singing Pastures plans to use its $25,000 prize money to fund a new website ahead of a rebrand and expansion.

The bank has steadily grown its presence in the Granite State over the past seven years.

A number of Maine-based banks have been expanding into New Hampshire in recent years. The goal is to broaden markets and serve existing New Hampshire customers, while remaining close to the Maine base.

The people who live at Cedar Falls Mobile Home Park were worried that if a developer came in, their community would go away. The cooperative model allowed them to secure financing to buy the land themselves.

Guest columnist Bob Montgomery-Rice, president and CEO of Maine's largest bank, offers some suggestions about how to prepare for shifts in the economy this year.