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

The Brunswick space includes training space for traditional skills like welding and metal work, but also robotics, hydraulics and pneumatics.

Maine community colleges will offer free training in areas from health care to hospitality, funded by an $8.3 million grant.

This year's graduates will be the last to benefit from a free tuition program after state lawmakers declined to continue funding in the budget signed by Maine's governor on Monday.

Saint Joseph’s College of Maine has been awarded $1.5 million to help address the state's shortage of secondary school teachers in STEM-related subjects.

The Maine Food Producer Showcase & Golden Fork Awards will be held at Brick South on Thompson's Point on Thursday, Oct. 24.

The training, funded by the Harold Alfond Foundation, will consist of programs that generally can be completed in days or weeks and are offered to students free of charge or at a discount.

The nonprofit has outgrown some quirky and chopped-up spaces over 30 years. In one, staffers were “stuffed into a hallway-like space.” The new lease has a better layout.

Southern Maine Community College in South Portland received $1 million in congressionally directed spending to start a new mobile learning lab van for STEM training and $4.1 million to establish a health care simulation lab. 

Kristen Miller, the vice president of academic affairs at White Mountains Community College in New Hampshire, will take over as president in February.