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V O L . X X I V N O. X I I J U N E 1 1 , 2 0 1 8 10 B U S I N E S S M A I N E B U S I N E S S M A I N E B U S I N E S S N E W S F RO M A RO U N D T H E S TAT E Paper President and CEO Ned Dwyer said the $175 million transac- tion is expected to close by the end of the second quarter, pending approval from Catalyst's shareholders. N O T E W O R T H Y C E N T R A L & W E S T E R N U.S. Cellular donated $15,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Waterville to provide K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics educa- tional opportunities to youth. Kennebec Valley Family Dentistry relocated to 6 East Chestnut St., suite 420 in the Ballard Center in Augusta. MaineSpark's Maine Adult Promise Program announced the award of two $10,000 grants to encourage collab- orative work with two area partner- ships, one in the Lewiston-Auburn area and one in the Kennebec Valley region, focused on providing community-wide support for adults looking to go back to school, start down a new path or fi nish something they've already started. The Maine Health Access Foundation in Augusta awarded a total of $600,000 to eight organizations around the state that exemplify community-driven efforts to improve health for communi- ties that face disproportionate barriers to health and wellbeing. Recipients included: Amistad Inc., In Her Presence, Maine Access Immigrant Network, Maine Transgender Network Inc., Mano en Mano/Hand in Hand, New Mainers Public Health Initiative, Portland Outright and Wabanaki Health and Wellness. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry in Augusta introduced the Dairy Improvement Fund, a revolving loan program to help Maine dairy farms and enterprises fund capital improvements to maintain and enhance the viability of their farms. BIW awarded $87M for U.S. Navy work Bath Iron Works has been awarded an $87 million contract by the U.S. Navy to continue integrated plan- ning yard services for Arleigh Burke-class and Oliver Hazard Perry-class ships, according to a joint announcement by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine. e contract covers integrated planning and support for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Oliver Hazard Perry-class of frig- ates built at BIW, for tasks including design, planning and modernization. Collins is a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and King is a member of the Armed Services Committee. Zoning change to be considered for solar farm Energy development company Next Phase Energy Services LLC has submitted a petition to the Land Use Planning Commission to change the zoning of a Hancock County property in order to estab- lish a 100-megawatt solar farm. e Bangor Daily News reported the requested rezoning, from a gen- eral classifi cation to commercial, for more than 700 acres of blue- berry fi elds in Maine's Unorganized Territory on land owned by forestry company Elliott Jordan & Son Inc. Dave Fowler, head of Next Phase Energy Services, told the BDN the proposed solar farm, called ree Rivers Solar, is a partnership between his fi rm and Elliott Jordan & Son. Pending zoning approval and permitting, they would bring in a partner to provide capital invest- ment for developing the site, which would be in 2020, Fowler said. Boatyard's former CFO sentenced for embezzlement Former Brooklin Boat Yard CFO Steven Nygren was sentenced to seven years and seven months in federal prison for stealing $815,000 from the business. e Bangor Daily News reported that Nygren, 51, of Salem, Mass., was also sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor to fi ve years with supervised release and ordered to pay more than $815,000 restitution. Nygren spent about half the money on a lease-to-own agreement at the Brooklin General Store, in which he is no longer involved. "If Brooklin Boat Yard went down, the community would just about die," U.S. District Judge John Woodcock said at the sentenc- ing. Boatyard owner Steve White told the judge Nygren stole from a $500,000 line of credit the business had with Camden National Bank. 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