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NEW HIRES Stephanie LeBlanc has joined Maine Behavioral Healthcare, a part of the MaineHealth system, as senior director of behavioral health systems and integrated services. For the past nine years, she served as executive director of Oxford County Mental Health Services, where she devoted much of her time to working with schools and law enforcement […]
Paul Birkel has been with Wright-Pierce for over three decades. During his time as executive vice president, he was also the wastewater practice group leader.
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Paul Birkel, executive vice president at Wright-Pierce, an environmental engineering firm, said the company returned its first-round Paycheck Protection Program loan after not needing it, and didn t apply for a second one. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer
Thousands of Maine small businesses have been approved for hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh Paycheck Protection Program loans under a revamped version of the program that some credit with preserving millions of U.S. jobs and preventing economic catastrophe last year.
But the scale of lending is far smaller this time around, partly because of stricter application requirements, other funding options and the recovery of some industries from last year’s economic shock, reducing their need for more government help.