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Camden Rotary Club explores the potential of Universal Broadband internet access for the Midcoast Joan Phaup Debra Hall. (Photo courtesy Camden Rotary Club) CAMDEN — What are the prospects for expanding broadband access in Mid-Coast Maine? And what would be the advantages of doing so? The Camden Rotary Club hosted a recent meeting on this topic, one of many the club is examining to learn about local economic challenges and foster potential solutions. The guest speaker, Mid-Coast Broadband Coalition Chair Debra Hall, described the successful installation in 2014 of a 1.5-mile municipal f...

Tue, 02/23/2021 - 8:15am Debra Hall What are the prospects for expanding broadband access in Mid-Coast Maine? And what would be the advantages of doing so? The Camden Rotary Club hosted a recent meeting on this topic, one of many the club is examining to learn about local economic challenges and foster potential solutions. The guest speaker, Mid-Coast Broadband Coalition Chair Debra Hall, described the successful installation in 2014 of a 1.5-mile municipal fiber-optic broadband network in Rockport. She then talked about the more recent establishment of the coalition, which aims to ...

Briefs Students honor workers for service during pandemic Students of St. John’s Catholic School recently took to the streets to spread some joy and to thank the many area businesses for their effort and energy in continuing to provide service to the community during the pandemic. The children created paper hearts, with inspiring messages of gratitude, which they then taped on storefronts and doors in the downtown area. Their actions, that were part of Maine Catholic Schools Week, were inspired partly by Portland’s own St. Valentine’s Bandit, who annually and anonymously, tapes hearts u...

Central Maine business briefs: United Way of Kennebec Valley welcomes newcomer People & Places: Maine Arts Commission appoints new interim executive director. Share AUGUSTA — After four decades of service to United Way of Kennebec Valley, Director of Finance Wendy Beaudoin has announced her plans to retire from the organization in March. UWKV has hired Kelly Wasson as the organization’s incoming director of finance, effective Feb. 1. Wendy Beaudoin Contributed photo Beaudoin joined United Way in 1981 as a administrative assistant, and her position has evolved with the nonprofit’s nee...

A family physician who recently headed a group of four hospitals in Virginia has been tapped as the next CEO of MaineHealth. The state’s largest health care system said in a news release Thursday that Dr. Andrew T. Mueller will succeed Bill Caron, who has been a leader of MaineHealth since its founding in 1988. In October 2019 he announced that he would retire at the end of 2020, but postponed the transition because of demands created by the pandemic. Mueller is expected to start at MaineHealth in late spring, according to the release. On Tuesday, he resigned from his role as president and...