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Cookie Jar of Maine owner Laura Pomerleau, right, talks with Cindy Bourgoine, store manager Feb. 25 at A.E. Robinson Convenience Store in Corinna. Pomeleau delivered an order of 146 cookies, shown on the countertop. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Baking cookies from a kitchen in Harmony turns into full-time business
Laura Pomerleau started selling her cooking from a trail-side stand outside her home; now she also delivers them to various convenience stores in central Maine.
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Laura Pomerleau, owner of Cookie Jar of Maine, measures sugar before mixing cookie dough Feb. 26 at her home in Harmony. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Laura Pomerleau, owner of Cookie Jar of Maine, adds baking soda while mixing cookie dough Feb. 26 at her home in Harmony. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Laura Pomerleau, owner of Cookie Jar of Maine, gathers ingredients before mixing cookie dough Feb. 26 at her home in Harmony. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Laura Pomerleau dries her hands after hand washing a mixing bowl she used to make cookie dough Feb. 26 at her home in Harmony for the Cookie Jar of Maine. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Chocolate chips, marshmallows, Hershey bars and graham crackers before being wrapped in chocolate chip cookie dough Feb. 26 to make Chocolate Chip Stuffed S’mores cookies at the Cookie Jar of Maine in Harmony. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Laura Pomerleau places unbaked stuffed cookies next to packaged cookies on the counter of her home kitchen Feb. 26 at her home in Harmony, where she developed the recipes for her oversized stuffed cookies she sells through her business, the Cookie Jar of Maine. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Laura Pomerleau carries cookie orders to her SUV before making deliveries to Corinna, Dexter and Brownville Feb. 25. Pomerleau operates the Cookie Jar of Maine at her home, pictured in the background, in Harmony. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Laura Pomerleau, owner of Cookie Jar of Maine, deliveries cookies Feb. 25 to the A.E. Robinson Convenience Store in Corinna. Pomerleau operates the business from her home in Harmony. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Laura Pomerleau looks over outgoing cookie orders before making deliveries Feb. 25 to Corinna, Dexter and Brownville. Pomerleau, who has built the Cookie Jar of Maine from a trailside stand, works out of her home in Harmony. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Cookie Jar of Maine owner Laura Pomerleau, right, talks with Cindy Bourgoine, store manager Feb. 25 at A.E. Robinson Convenience Store in Corinna. Pomeleau delivered an order of 146 cookies, shown on the countertop. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Rich is a career photojournalist and writer who got his start in newspapers in 1987 at the Fort Morgan Times in Colorado. His appreciation for photography and stories began as a kid while watching slide...
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