WATERVILLE — Day’s Jewelers, a New England-based jewelry retailer, has been named among the Best Places to Work in Maine for its eighth year, marking a significant milestone for the newly founded employee-owned business. Best Places to Work in Maine is an award that recognizes 100 excellent businesses each year that go above and beyond […]
2023
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Inland Hospital welcomes Dr. Brian Abbott to Northern Light Orthopedics
Inland Hospital has welcomed Dr. Brian Abbott, DO, to Northern Light Orthopedics in Waterville, located in the Medical Arts Building attached to Northern Light Inland Hospital. Abbott provides nonsurgical orthopedic/sports medicine care, including evaluation and treatment of sprains and strains, nonsurgical fracture management, osteopathic manipulation, diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound, and more, according to a […]
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Summit Natural Gas of Maine commits $60K to 5 area nonprofits
AUGUSTA — Summit Natural Gas of Maine, a subsidiary of Summit Utilities Inc., announced it is giving $60,000 in grant donations to five area nonprofits. Each nonprofit will receive the $4,000 grant in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Summit’s new multi-year community giving grant program aims to allow chosen qualifying nonprofit organizations to launch programs or […]
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Johnson Hall in Gardiner to close out Waterfront Summer Concert Series
Johnson Hall in Gardiner plans to close out its 2023 Free Waterfront Summer Concert Series with The Give Your Voice All-Stars at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25, at Gardiner’s waterfront. Bring your lawn chairs or a blanket. There will be food vendors and children’s activities with balloon animals, and free giveaways. Also, there will be […]
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McLaughlin Gardens in South Paris to host fundraiser Aug. 26
Singer-songwriter Lyle Divinsky to perform blues roots and R&B.
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UMaine professor’s computer model tells the story of Earth’s changing climate
Recent news coverage of the planet’s record-breaking heat wave relied on the online climate visualization tool developed Sean Birkel, who is also the state climatologist.
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Commentary: Have fun with strangers. Democracy and our mental health may depend on it
Over the past couple of years, I lost my fear of the Other. It happened while I was picking up new hobbies, such as skating and dancing, while befriending a larger and more diverse array of people. In some cases, I bonded with people whose politics are very different from mine. The disconnection I’d felt […]
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View from Away: Five takeaways from the first year of America’s biggest climate law
One year ago, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, the nation’s most significant action yet to combat climate change. The law dedicated $369 billion to boost renewable energy production and manufacturing, help homeowners install rooftop solar panels, switch to efficient electric appliances, drive up sales of electric vehicles and get the U.S. closer […]
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Aug. 19, 1981: Shaw’s 10,000 sq. foot store expansion in Augusta worries local retail competition, Maine Human Rights Commission rules in favor of new father, and this hardworking vegetable dealer in Dover-Foxcroft returned sum of money to elderly woman
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