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Patriot Benefit Solutions in North Andover, Mass., will operate under the Cross Insurance name, overseen by Dave Messersmith, president of Cross Insurance's coastal region.

Cross oversees a company with 1,000 employees in more than 50 offices, serving 100,000 customers. The family business has grown through 175-plus acquisitions to become the largest independent insurance provider in New England.

The 2022 edition of the annual event is taking place all day Thursday at the Cross Insurance Arena and online.

Plans in place since nearly the start of the pandemic call for venues in both cities to serve as makeshift COVID-19 field hospitals. That hasn't been necessary, but officials are preparing, just in case.

The founder of Bangor-based Cross Insurance, who launched the company in 1954 from his kitchen table, died peacefully on Sunday.

Absent a professional hockey team since May 2016, Portland's Cross Insurance Arena will become home to the Alaska Aces for the 2018-2019 season, the ECHL said today. They'll start playing in Portland under a new name.

Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Bangor-based Cross Financial Corp. and one of the largest independent insurance providers in New England, has acquired its 16th Massachusetts insurance agency.

Two groups have expressed interest in bringing an ECHL professional hockey team to Portland, trustees of Cross Insurance Arena announced Wednesday.

The America East Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, which is coming to Maine in 2017 and 2018 for the first time in 20 years, is expected to have an economic impact of $2 million each year in games and related festivities, its sponsors said.