Banknorth Group Names Executive

NEW ENGLAND

Banknorth Group, Burlington, Vt., said Luther F. Hackett will retire as chairman after the May 12 annual meeting.

Mr. Hackett, who is president of Hackett, Valine & MacDonald, an insurance firm, will remain a director of $2.9 billion-asset Banknorth.

He has been chairman since it was established in 1989. Before that he had been chairman since 1983 of Howard Bancorp and its Howard Bank, now a Banknorth subsidiary.

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