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What is the future likely to bring?  A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside.  So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what’s happening here or, for that matter, imagine you’re an historian 100 years from now — assuming there are any historians 100 years from now, which is not obvious — and you’re looking back at what’s happening today.  You’d see something quite remarkable.

The Coast Guard is overwhelmed managing maritime migration in the Caribbean. It needs the Navy’s help. Maritime migration levels are reaching increasingly high levels and pushing the Coast Guard interdiction resources far beyond sustainable levels.

Briefs on local businesspeople

Michael S. Abrams its chief financial officer. In alignment with the company’s succession plan, Abrams joins Arch’s financial team in the role previously held by Richard Davis. Davis will remain with the company during a transition period, which will end on June 30, after which he will support the company in a consulting role through Dec. 31. Abrams has more than 25 years of experience as a chief financial officer to numerous public and private companies; principal investor; investment ba...

Tara A. Kilgallen of Framingham has joined ERA Key as a Realtor in the Framingham office. Kilgallen has 20 years of experience as a yoga instructor in Massachusetts and California, and is currently as instructor at Common Ground Yoga in Framingham. She previously served as co-director of Yoga at Lumina Mind Body Studios - Longfellow Health Clubs in Wayland and She was also a yoga instructor at Bosse Sports in  Sudbury. Before that, she was the director of yoga and retail manager at Tushi...

Paul Brassil of Medfield has joined the company as senior vice president/chief information officer and will oversee PCU’s information technology and digital innovation efforts. Brassil has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology leadership field with entities such as Commonwealth Medicine (a division of UMass Medical School), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, EMC Corp. and Siemens IT Solutions and Services Inc. He holds an MS in computer information systems from Ben...

Paul Brassil of Medfield has joined the company as senior vice president/chief information officer and will oversee PCU’s information technology and digital innovation efforts. Brassil has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology leadership field with entities such as Commonwealth Medicine (a division of UMass Medical School), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, EMC Corp. and Siemens IT Solutions and Services Inc. He holds an MS in computer information systems from Ben...

Newton recently appointed three newly elected members to its Board of Directors: Annie Greene, Eric Boecher and Gloria Greene, a Newton native, joins the Board of Directors after 10 years of involvement at the Ys residential camp, Camp Frank A. Day. She attended Frank A. Day as a camper and then spent four years as a counselor. In 2018, she spoke about her camp experience at the Ys "A Night Under the Stars" fundraising gala. She is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and is currently wo...