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Skowhegan Savings recognizes employees at recognition, awards dinner
Skowhegan Savings recently held its annual all employee meeting and recognition dinner. Over 150 employees from 12 branch locations where in attendance to honor their colleagues receiving awards for employee of the year, integrity service, employees of the quarter and years of service for 2022. David Cyr, president and CEO of Skowhegan Savings, credited employees […]
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Posted inBusiness, Kennebec Journal, Maine, News
From Elvis to Pearl Jam, Augusta Civic Center has hosted many memorable performers in its 50 years
Officials hope to attract enough Elvis impersonators to the building, which hosted Elvis in his only Maine appearance in 1977, to set a world record.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Power outage cancels, diverts flights at Kennedy airport
Terminal 1 remained closed Friday ‘due to electrical issues.’
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Thousands of flights canceled as German airport staff strike
The stoppages affect almost 300,000 passengers and forced airlines to cancel more than 2,300 flights.
Posted inBusiness
Wall Street closes another bumpy week with mixed finish
The hope is that high interest rates can drive down inflation, but they also hurt investment prices and risk causing a severe recession.
Posted inBusiness
Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5 million for hiring minors
The 13 sites where violations were found are in Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee and Texas.
Posted inBusiness, Feature Obituary, Maine, News, Uncategorized
Ken Cianchette, Cianbro co-founder who had ‘an impact on tens of thousands,’ dies at 98
Cianchette, whose memorial service is scheduled for Saturday, was one of four brothers who formed the company that has constructed many of Maine’s major buildings and bridges.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Salmon farm could be headed for landlocked Millinocket
A business group has signed a lease for 45 acres at the site of a former paper mill, hoping to construct a high-tech fish farm that relies on recirculated water.
Posted inBusiness
Cautious but steady consumers buoying hopes for U.S. economy
Nearly three years after the pandemic caused a brief but brutal recession and then a powerful rebound, the economy appears to have entered a phase in which growth might not be so forceful as to fuel high inflation.