The Cianbro Corp. has hired veteran television reporter and anchorman Alan Grover to be its public relations and corporate communications manager. Grover has spent the past 20 years in journalism, working first at WWMJ-FM radio before moving on to WVII-TV in Bangor in 1989. For the last 13 years, he has been an investigative reporter and anchorman for WABI-TV in Bangor. At Cianbro, Grover will serve as a liaison between the company and the news media along the East Coast. He also will chronicle Cianbro’s plans and accomplishments for the corporation’s 2,500 employees. Grover grew up in Monroe, attended local schools, and graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in broadcast journalism. “I feel it will be an easy task telling Cianbro’s story,” he said. “The company already has a terrific reputation throughout the region.”

Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway has appointed Donald Gardner Jr. vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer at the railway’s headquarters in Hermon. He succeeds Fred W. Yocum Jr., who has retired after 40 years in the rail industry. Gardner joins MMA from Maine Drilling & Blasting Inc. in Gardiner, where he had served as chief financial officer since 2005.

From 2001 to 2005, he was vice president of operations and chief financial officer at Kazmaier Associates and S/R Industries Inc. of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Concord, Mass. He was principal at Gardner Associates in Needham, Mass., from 1991 until 1993, when he became chief operating officer at Genalco Inc. in Needham. Gardner has an MBA from the Boston College School of Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of New Hampshire. Montreal, Maine & Atlantic began operations Jan. 9, 2003, operating 754 route miles of line in Maine, New Brunswick, Quebec and Vermont.