Bill Kitchen, who died Sept. 9, was remembered as a 'convenor' who was 'action-oriented.' A bank president said of Kitchen: 'His career was business but his passion was people, everyone included.'
There’s a lot of conversation about enticing youth to remain in Maine as they enter the workforce. A young Washington County couple are creating their own reasons to stay.
In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the consensus is that Maine banks are well-capitalized and diversified, with sufficient buffers to prevent the panicked run that unraveled SVB. But the outlook gets murky if the current turmoil escalates into a wider crisis and sparks a recession.