U.S. applications for unemployment benefits rose by 21,000 to 248,000 for the week ending August 5, from 227,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
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Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Video: Auburn railroad work is part of a larger project to improve infrastructure in the area
Motorists were hung up at several downtown railroad crossings Wednesday while CSX Transportation did maintenance work and dropped sections of tracks to be installed later.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News, Politics
Biden pitches his efforts on clean energy, infrastructure as key to reviving manufacturing jobs
The claim that the administration has bolstered U.S. manufacturing is backed by a rise in construction spending on new factories, but factory hiring has begun to slow in recent months.
Posted inBusiness, The Bethel Citizen
Bethel’s Modern Barn once prosperous canned corn factory
BETHEL — A kernel of Bethel’s history was sown in today’s Modern Barn at 19 Summer St. In the building that is now home to the upscale restaurant, there was once a thriving corn canning factory that kept Bethel’s farmers busy and prosperous from 1880 until 1926. When Fritz Tyler moved his canning building from […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Business, Oxford Hills
Proposed housing co-op continues legacy of the good neighbor
The Whitman Street home of Ashley Everett, who lived there for 90 years, will be the future site of Norway Equitable Housing Cooperative.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Business, Oxford Hills
CEBE targets affordable housing with the Norway Equitable Housing Cooperative project
A tenant-owned cooperative housing complex will replace dilapidated buildings on Whitman Street in Norway.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Business, Oxford Hills
The house that Cash (and friends) built
With the help and support of many friends, Jacob Cash of Norway is realizing the dream of milling and building his timber frame home.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, The Buzz
Gippers Sports Grill sold to familiar faces
Also in The Buzz: Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport auction has raised over $41,000
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
Former executive who helped create Fox News picks a new target: Fox
Preston Padden, a longtime confidante to Rupert Murdoch, is supporting an effort to deny the renewal of a Fox license, arguing that ‘Fox has undermined our democracy.’
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, The Buzz
Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport auction edges closer to goal of $75,000
Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport auction has raised over $41,000