The Planning and Development Board met for its first in-person meeting in City Hall since the beginning of the pandemic. Absent ââChair Robert Lewis and members Garrick Blalock and Elisabete Godden, the remaining board members discussed a lengthy July 27 agenda sprinkled with proposals for commercial and residential projects.Â
201 East Tompkins Street in Fall Creek
Serviente is relocating his artisanal glass studio at 201 East Tompkins Street in Fall Creek, and local coaches Jana Leyden and Andy Lonsky want to use the commercial space as a community fitness center.Â
The planned fitness center requires a special permit because it will have a commercial use while located in a lower-density residential neighborhood (R-2b).Â
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Cyberattacks are the number-one threat to the global economy, according to Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve.
Alacrinet Consulting Services Inc., an information technology consulting firm that specializes in cybersecurity consulting, is seeking to diminish digital insecurity globally and reduce the risk of cyberattacks.
“There’s thousands of these attacks happening every day, whether it’s in a local school district or a state government or an enterprise; even if you don’t hear about them, they’re happening,” said Brian Bouchard (pictured), chief executive officer and co-founder president of Alacrinet. “Adding to the risk that the cyberattackers pose is the complexity of the cybersecurity tools themselves. There isn’t a single solution provider or a single technology, that can ensure a company’s security.”
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MaineHealth in Portland hired
Andrew Mueller as CEO. Mueller is former president and CEO of Centra Health, a Lynchburg, Va., health care system consisting of four local hospital organizations, is expected to start his new position in late spring.
OTELCO, a wireline telecommunications company in New Gloucester, hired
Brian Bouchard as an OSP engineer and
Debbie Brill as an OSP licensing manager in New Gloucester and
Ethan Richards as a technical support technician in Bangor.
Camden National Wealth Management hired
Mark Andrews as senior trust officer and relationship manager. Andrews, who has 30 years of experience in wealth advisory services, was previously vice president and trust team lead at Huntington National Bank in Michigan.
COVID-19 vaccine: Can businesses and employers mandate it?
Brian Bouchard, Esq.
Now that we have two approved vaccines, many businesses are asking whether they can require customers and employees to vaccinate. Can a company offering harbor cruises out of Portsmouth, for example, require all patrons to show proof of vaccination or otherwise be denied service? Can companies across the New Hampshire Seacoast require their workforces to vaccinate before returning to an in-office setting? Putting aside vaccine scarcity for a moment, the question of whether businesses can mandate vaccination is muddled and contains many traps for the unwary.
Let’s start with how the vaccine received approval. So far there are only two companies with approved vaccines: Pfizer and Moderna. Each company received what’s called an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration. Fair warning, this article contains a good deal of abbreviations. An EUA is not the same as