Investments include $20 million for a new small business grant program, $39 million to help lower monthly health insurance premiums and $80 million to replenish the state’s unemployment trust fund.
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Facade grants help four Lisbon business owners renovate their buildings
The funds can be used to renovate the exteriors of the buildings, replace windows, doors and other exterior renovations.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine
Open? Closed? Local staffing shortages keep changing up the hours
It can take work to keep track of when your local coffee shop or library is open, but be kind when you walk in the door.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Here’s what you need to know about Question 1
CMP’s $1 billion project has been painted both as a clean-energy link and as a scar across the Maine landscape, and some ads have made it seem to be about something other than a power transmission line.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
One crucial mile creates wide gap for power line project
The New England Clean Energy Connect project’s future could hinge on whether it can cross over a short section of public land.
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Geiger hires Janice Gray and Tuan Huynh for executive team
LEWISTON — Geiger has hired Janice Gray and Tuan Huynh for its executive team as chief human resource officer and chief information officer, respectively. Gray has extensive experience as a strategic people leader focused on talent acquisition, talent management and team development. Before joining Geiger, Gray served in a dual role as director of human […]
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OTELCO hires six employees
NEW GLOUCESTER — OTELCO has announced new hires in its Maine offices. Diana Snow joins as a director of service delivery. Snow graduated from the University of Maine with an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration. She has worked in the telecommunications industry for almost 22 years in various […]
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, Uncategorized
Resilient shoppers push U.S. retail sales up 0.7% in September
This despite sticker shock in grocery aisles, car lots and restaurants as snarled global supply chains slow the flow of goods.
Posted inBusiness, Uncategorized
China crackdown on Apple store hits holy book apps, Audible
Programs for reading and listening to the holy books of Islam and Christianity have disappeared from the Apple store in mainland China.
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Britain opens doors to foreign butchers in effort to relieve pig crisis
The shortage of slaughterhouse workers has created what Britain’s pig lobby calls its biggest crisis in over two decades.