Diane Sturgeon named SBA district director for Maine
The U.S. Small Business Administration has named
Diane Sturgeon district director of its Maine District Office. Sturgeon has worked for the SBA for nine years in the Maine office and most recently served as deputy district director. She joined the SBA in 2012 as a lender relations specialist and has more than 10 years of banking experience, having worked in a variety of roles for both community and national lenders. A graduate of the University of Maine with a degree in secondary education, Sturgeon has also completed the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders Fundamentals Diploma Program. Sturgeon succeeds Amy Bassett, who held the position from January 2017 until December 2020.
Unity College president discusses innovation, leadership in chamber talk
Melik Peter Khoury discusses his experiences, especially during COVID-19 pandemic, with audience at gathering in Waterville.
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WATERVILLE Over the past 18 months, Melik Peter Khoury, the president and CEO of Unity College, has faced challenging decisions.
Not only has the coronavirus pandemic upended the world, but the college itself has faced a transformation.
“How can you be innovative if you’re doing things people have already done?” Khoury asked the audience rhetorically Thursday during an appearance at a leadership luncheon cohosted by the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and KV Connect at Amici’s Cucina, an Italian restaurant in downtown Waterville.
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Weddings and wedding tourism contributed more than $927 million to the state s economy and supported more than 13,000 jobs in 2017, according to a report by the University of Southern Maine, and was on track to bring in more than $1 billion in 2020.
Business owners say that as destination weddings become more popular, the industry could grow even more.
Then the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe, putting the world and those businesses in lockdown indefinitely. Out of my 29 weddings last year I had eight, said Misty Coolidge, owner of Coolidge Family Farms in New Gloucester. I cried a lot.
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NEW GLOUCESTER OTELCO has hired two new employees for its local offices.
Ann Beckwith joins OTELCO as an accounts payable-lead/senior accountant in the company’s New Gloucester office. Beckwith previously worked at FirstLight Fiber for 10 years after attending Southern Maine Community College and the University of Southern Maine.
Christopher Pingree-Felts joins the Gray offices as an outside plant technician. He spent 10 years working for Spectrum and Time Warner Cable and is a resident of Naples.
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