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| Plourde |
Plourde joins Currier & Trask
PRESQUE ISLE — Currier & Trask, P.A. has announced that Jon P. Plourde, Esq. has joined the firm as an associate attorney.
Attorney Plourde attended law school at the University of Maine School of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 2011. He is a member of the bar in Maine.
A native of Fort Kent, Plourde graduated from Fort Kent High School in 2000. He attended the University of Maine at Farmington and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history in 2005. Plourde attended Syracuse University and received a master’s degree in history in 2008.
Attorney Plourde will practice in the areas of criminal law, family law and civil litigation.
Hired at NMCC
PRESQUE ISLE — With a new academic year under way, Northern Maine Community College has welcomed four faculty members to campus. The new instructors fill positions in the arts and sciences, nursing and allied health, and trade and technical occupations departments.
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| Pytlak |
Frank Pytlak of Presque Isle is the new instructor for NMCC’s residential construction program. He replaces long-time faculty member Guy Jackson, who retired after 30 years of service to the college.
Pytlak graduated from the University of Maine at Presque Isle in 1985, earning his bachelor of arts degree in behavioral science. Since 1976, he has owned his own residential construction company, F. Pytlak Construction, Inc. Pytlak taught in the residential construction program at NMCC during the spring semester in 2004, and has been a substitute teacher in the Presque Isle and Caribou public school systems since 2009. He is a member of the NMCC residential construction program advisory committee, a board member of the Presque Isle Wesleyan Church, and has been a foster parent for many years.
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| Cronkhite |
Shelli Cronkhite of Westfield, a familiar face on the NMCC campus, has joined the arts and sciences department as a social sciences instructor. She replaces John Price, who retired this past summer after 32 years at the college.
Prior to making her transition to teaching full time, Cronkhite served as a counselor/student development specialist in the NMCC counseling office for nearly six years. In addition, she has been an adjunct instructor since 2009, teaching speech, technical communications, applied human relations and general psychology. Cronkhite graduated with a bachelor of arts in behavioral science from the University of Maine at Presque Isle in 2002, and obtained her master of science in school counseling from Husson University in 2010.
Sandy Pelletier of Fort Kent has also transitioned to a new role on the NMCC campus in the nursing and allied health department. Pelletier had served for two years as a nursing instructor at NMCC’s off-campus center in Madawaska. She has now assumed a full-time position as a nursing instructor on the Presque Isle campus.
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| Pelletier |
Since 1999, Pelletier has held positions as an RN in various departments at Northern Maine Medical Center including intensive care/medical surgical, child/adolescent psychiatric, cardiac rehabilitation and as a community educator. She also has served as an adjunct nursing instructor for the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Pelletier graduated from UMFK in 1994 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. She obtained her bachelor of science degree in nursing in 1998 from Husson University.
