November 23, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

JUDITH LEWIS of Dover-Foxcroft has been named manager of the Bangor Savings Bank branch in Greenville. Lewis began her banking career in 1983 in Connecticut as an administrative assis- tant for operations at Liberty Bank for Savings. She comes to Bangor Savings from Fleet Bank of Maine, where she had worked for the past seven years, most recently as an assistant manager-branch supervisor at the bank’s Dover-Foxcroft office.

The Maine Public Broadcasting Co. has announced that JUDY HORAN has been named general manager of WLBZ-TV (Channel 2). Horan has been news director at the station since April 1993. She succeeds Jeff Marks, who left the station Dec. 31, 1994. Horan, who has 15 years of experience in broadcasting, will now focus on overseeing the everyday activities of WLBZ.

Ducktrap River Fish Farm in Winter Harbor has announced that STEPHEN YOUNG has been hired as the national sales manager for the company. Before being hired by Ducktrap, Young had been the Northeast regional manager with Crestar Foods, an affiliate of H.J. Heinz. Ducktrap produces smoked seafood products which are marketed under the Ducktrap and Kendall Brook brand names.

JANET MILLS has joined the law firm of Wright & Mills in Skowhegan. Mills recently retired as the longest-serving elected woman district attorney in the nation. She had spent nearly 15 years as district attorney for Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties. Mills graduated from the University of Maine School of Law in 1976. After graduation, and until 1980, Mills served as an assistant attorney general. She is a co-founder of the Maine Women’s Lobby, and also serves on the Western Maine Sustainable Communities Project and on the Margaret Chase Smith Library advisory board.

BARBARA NOYES PULLING of Cape Elizabeth has been hired by Maine Public Broadcasting Co. as senior producer-scriptwriter for Maine Public Television’s science education project called “Quest: Investigating a World We Call Maine.” Noyes Pulling has more than 18 years of experience in television and radio around the country. As a television producer in Maryland, she created a critically acclaimed weekly news magazine. In Idaho, she produced the only daily television news program in the country exclusively devoted to a state legislature, a program that earned Noyes Pulling several awards.

KEITH W. VANGEISON of Cape Elizabeth has been named executive vice president at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine. He was most recently senior vice president of provider affairs at Blue Cross, which he joined in 1991. Prior to coming to Blue Cross, Vangeison managed the Illinois state employees’ health plan and other employee benefits. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Southern Illinois University.

KAREN L. GROTTON has joined Imprint, the Bangor advertising and design firm, as a project manager and administrative assistant. Grotton is a graduate of the University of Maine, where she earned undergraduate degrees in secondary education, psychology and speech communication. Grotton has been the project coordinator for the Norumbega Hall Project and is a volunteer advocate for Rape Response Services.

JILL TOMPKINS SHIBLES has joined the law firm of Archer, Perry & Jordan in Brewer. Shibles is the former director of the Penobscot Nation Judicial System. She continues to preside as the chief judge for the Passamaquoddy Tribal Court and for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court.


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