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V O L . X X I N O. X X I I I O C T O B E R 5 , 2 0 1 5 38 Newsworthy people and performances I N S H O R T To submit new hires, promotions, appointments, or achievements to Mainebiz, send your press release to editorial@mainebiz.biz. Items are run at the discretion of the editorial staff, and in the order in which they were received. [ N E W H I R E S ] Skelton Taintor & Abbott, a law fi rm in Auburn, hired Ted Small as a shareholder. Small's practice will include complex commercial and business litigation and arbitration; construction law; real estate litigation; and municipal and government law. Waynfl ete, a private school in Portland, hired Sarah Plimpton as director of devel- opment. Plimpton was previously a vice president at CCS, a fundraising consulting fi rm. Maine Savings, a credit union in Hampden, hired Marcel Blais as its chief retail offi cer. Blais was most recently senior vice president and chief operations offi cer of the Community Banking Division at Northeast Bank. Care & Comfort, a provider of home health services and mental health care in Waterville, hired Michael Stair as chief operating offi cer. Previously, Stair was with Seniors Plus/Elder Independence of Maine. Spurwink, a nonprofi t in Portland that provides behavioral health and educational services for children, adolescents, adults and families, hired Kristen Farnham as vice president of development and Karen Backman as director of professional development. Penobscot Community Health Care in Bangor hired Lisa Bergmark as a physician assistant at its Brewer School Based Health Centers located at the Brewer High School and the Brewer Community School. Kennebec Savings Bank hired Russ Donahue as marketing director and communications offi cer and Julie Armstrong as an assistant vice president and branch manager in Farmingdale. Sterling Rope Co. Inc. in Biddeford hired Catherine Shaps as planner and inven- tory control manager, Steven Rodriguez as a customer service representative, Chuck Weber as a process engineer and Sara Fleetwood as a product development engineer in the research and develop- ment department. Shaps was previously a purchaser and inventory special- ist at Plow & Hearth, Rodriguez was an associate with Eastern Mountain Sports, Weber was with PMI and New England Ropes while Fleetwood is a recent graduate of Virginia Tech. The State of Maine Department of Corrections hired Randall Liberty as war- den of the Maine State Prison. Liberty was previously sheriff of Kennebec County overseeing the operations of the Kennebec County Correctional Facility. e city of Portland hired Art Howe as housing safety administrator oversee- ing the city's new Housing Safety Offi ce. Howe was president of Howe Safety Services. University College, an administrative unit of the University of Maine at Augusta, hired Mark Tardif as direc- tor of communica- tion, marketing and production services. Tardif was previously associate director of media relations at Unity College. The Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander weekly newspapers Julie Armstrong Karen Backman Mark Tardif Marcel Blais Sarah Plimpton Kristen Farnham Russ Donahue Michael Stair Ted Small u COMMERCIALu INDUSTRIALu INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE u u SALES u LEASING u "Results are our measure of success" 6 State Street P.O. Box 2444 Bangor, ME 04402-2444 Tel 207-945-6222 Fax 207-945-5824 www.epsteincommercial.com results@epsteincommercial.com FOR LEASE PORTLANDSTAGE where great theater lives Buy Tickets: 207.774.0465 www.portlandstage.org | 25A Forest Ave, Portland, Maine

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