Michael Abbatiello of Falmouth has been hired as chief operating officer at Counseling Services Inc., a local community mental health agency. Abbatiello will be responsible for overseeing CSI’s financial operations, as well as the agency’s administrative services and information services.

Abbatiello has many years’ experience as a health care executive, and has worked in both finance and operations. He most recently was senior vice president of operations at Sweetser. Prior to that role he was Sweetser’s senior director of finance and chief financial officer. Abbatiello ran his own health care consulting firm assisting hospitals, health systems and physician groups, and served as director of finance at two hospitals in New York.

Abbatiello is a licensed CPA who earned an undergraduate degree in accounting at Long Island University and a master’s degree in public policy and organizational management from the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School of Public Policy. He has taught finance and public policy courses at USM and has done research at the Muskie School.

Amy Safford has been hired by Community Partners Inc. as manager of development and community relations.  She previously was executive director for Literacy Volunteers of Greater Sanford. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program and Boston University’s College of Communication.  She resides in Kennebunk and is married with two children.

Melissa Boilard, Jeff Roberts and Alie DiCarlo have been promoted to assistant vice presidents at Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution.

Boilard has been assistant branch manager at the bank’s Saco branch since 2007. She joined the bank in 1997 as a teller in Scarborough. Since 2001, she has been at the Saco branch as a customer service representative, teller supervisor, branch supervisor and currently is assistant branch manager. She resides in Biddeford with her husband, Craig, and two daughters.

Roberts, of Biddeford, is the bank’s network and telecom manager at the bank’s operations center in Saco. He began his career at the bank in 2006 as a senior network support specialist. A graduate of Thomas College, he was information technology infrastructure manager at Computerworld in Framingham, Mass., and a senior IT specialist for CYRO in Sanford.

DiCarlo, of Kennebunk, has been at the bank since 2005 and has been training and development manager since 2008. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of New England and has created programs in the areas of customer service, supervisory and coaching skills, motivation and communication, sales and industry-specific training.

Karyn Scharf Morin has been promoted to vice president, branch administrator, at Kennebunk Savings. Morin has been with the bank since 2001 and previously was retail market manager for its York offices.  In her new role, she will be responsible for day-to-day management of the bank’s 15 branches and customer care center. Prior to joining Kennebunk Savings, Morin held branch management positions at Fleet Bank and Sovereign Bank and worked in the southern Maine and New Hampshire markets.

Morin holds a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and economics from Wheaton College and was a Lordan scholar at the New England School of Banking at Williams College. She lives in South Berwick.

Saco Island Deli in Saco has been named Yankee Magazine’s winner for favorite deli and clam chowder in the magazine’s first Best of New England – Readers Choice list.

 “We love to prepare food the way it should be done and we are very humbled that our customers recognized us for that,” said chef Mark Claussen of Saco Island Deli in a prepared statement.

Counseling Services Inc., a community mental health agency serving southern Maine residents for nearly 50 years, has received full accreditation from the Council on Accreditation, an international social service and behavioral health care accrediting agency.

CSI annually serves more than 7,000 children and adults in York and Cumberland counties at its four clinical locations in Biddeford, Springvale, Westbrook and Kittery.

The COA accreditation process involves a detailed review and analysis of an organization’s administrative operations and its service delivery practices. All are measured against national standards of best practice. The accrediting agency recognized CSI for providing high-quality services in the areas of case management, crisis response and information, group living, outpatient mental health, psychiatric rehabilitation, residential treatment, substance abuse and supported community living.

Adam Hobson has joined Worthing & Going PA, located in Saco and Scarborough. He provides small business owners and individuals accounting and tax advisory services.

He is a graduate of the University of Maine in Orono with both a Master of Business Administration as well as a Bachelor of Science in business administration and finance. He is a military veteran who served two tours of duty in the Persian Gulf, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is on the board of directors of a local nonprofit organization.

Business events

The Biddeford-Saco Chamber of Commerce & Industry, the Biddeford-Saco Area Economic Development Corporation, Heart of Biddeford and Saco Spirit are leading a campaign called “Live Local, Be Local, Buy Local – Biddeford-Saco” to promote economic, social and environmental benefits of buying local. 

The buy local campaign will hold an introduction to the program March 1  from 5 to 6:45 p.m. at the Saco Transportation Center, 138 Main Street, Saco.  This event is free to all business owners and merchants in Biddeford and Saco.  The Buy Local Steering Committee will make a brief presentation of the benefits of the program as well as details of how the program will be launched.  Members of the buy local steering committee will be on hand to answer questions.

 Hors d’ouevres will be served and there will be a cash bar and door prizes.  The buy local campaign aims to launch in spring and will include television, radio, and print advertising as well as informational and social events.

University of New England’s Career Services office is accepting registrations from area employers interested in exhibiting at the Biddeford Campus Career Fair. This year’s fair, which is open to the public, will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 1 in the Campus Center gym. 

Last year’s fair brought more than 350 job seekers to campus and more than 30 employers from as far away as Massachusetts. The fee to exhibit is $100 and includes lunch.

For registration paperwork, contact Jeff Nevers in UNE Career Services at 602-2503 or jnevers@une.edu.