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UMaine System to request another round of proposals for Hutchinson Center sale
A new request for proposals on the Belfast property will be released by the end of next week and will remain open until November.
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Parents will have to set aside some earnings for child influencers under new California laws
Parents and guardians who profit from social media posts featuring their children will soon be required to set aside some earnings for the young performers.
Posted inBusiness
OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots, convert to fully for-profit company
While OpenAI already has a for-profit division, where most of its staff works, it is controlled by a nonprofit board of directors whose mission is to help humanity.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine agriculture commissioner named vice president of national association
Amanda Beal has been elected to serve on the board of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Nation & World
Diners skipping restaurants, making more meals at home as inflation trend inverts
Inflation has been easing broadly for more than a year now, and it’s been cooling faster for grocery items since the middle of the year.
Posted inBusiness
Waterville professor teams up with SecureMaine for Oct. 3 conference
The full-day conference, in its second year, will feature presentations and panel sessions covering the latest priorities in information and infrastructure security.
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Shalit named to Waterville’s HealthReach governing board of directors
Shalit is director of education at Redington-Fairview General Hospital in Skowhegan.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel, News
Former Island Dairy Treat in Skowhegan to continue as ice cream stand, new property owner says
The former owners of the decades-old ice cream stand said that they could not come to an agreement with the new property owner about how to keep the business in operation as it was.
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Video game actors’ union calls for strike against League of Legends
The blockbuster online multiplayer game is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services.