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V O L . X X V I I I N O. X V I I I A U G U S T 2 2 , 2 0 2 2 4 A division of New England Business Media LLC C E O / GROUP PUBLISHER Peter Stanton P R E S I D E N T Tom Curtin C F O / C O O Mary Rogers DIGITAL DIRECTOR Jan Holder PUBLISHER Peter Stanton ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Andrea Tetzlaff EDITOR Peter Van Allen DIGITAL EDITOR William Hall SENIOR WRITERS Renee Cordes, Laurie Schreiber CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Mark Jeanneret, Bridget Reed Morawski Carrie Yardley RESEARCH DIRECTOR Timothy Doyle RESEARCH ASSISTANT Heide Martin ART DIRECTOR Matt Selva HOSPITALITY EMERITUS Zoey SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGERS Ken Hanson, Betsy VanderPloeg ACCOUNT MANAGER Kerry Rasor MARKETING/OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Alison Nason OPERATIONS COORDINATOR Allison Spies DIRECTOR OF AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Valerie Clark C O N T E N T S Digital realities Husson gets real with simulation technology to train students for careers 10 14 Energy boom or bust? As Aroostook County waits for new law's impact, officials are seeing dollar signs 18 Greater Bangor / Northern Maine Roundup Downtown revival, border bridge revamp and other happenings in Bangor and northern Maine G R E AT E R B A N G O R / N O R T H E R N M A I N E F O C U S R E G I O N A L T H U M B N A I L O N PA G E 9 » SP ONSORED BY 7:30–10:30AM / THE WESTIN PORTLAND HARBORVIEW AU G . 25 PA N EL IS T S MOD ER ATOR REGISTER AT MAINEBIZ.BIZ/SMALLBIZ22 Navigating the labor shortage in Maine: How to recruit and retain great employees Dan Belyea Chief Workforce Development Officer of the Maine Community College System Tae Chong Founder, Tae Chong Consulting / Director of Multicultural Markets and Strategies, Maine State Chamber Mark Adams President and CEO of Sebago Technics Becky McKinnell Founder and CEO of iBec Creative Lisa Sockabasin Co-CEO of Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness P H O T O S / C O U R T E S Y O F H I G H T I D E C A P I TA L R E N D E R I N G / C O U R T E S Y O F T H E M A I N E D O T 2 Hammond St. in Bangor. A rendering of a new bridge linking Madawasaka to Edmundston, New Brunswick. 33 State St. in Bangor. P H O T O / F R E D F I E L D Marie Hansen, business dean at Husson University, and School of Technology and Innovation Assistant Professor Michael Knupp 10 18