To stay competitive and keep customers happy, more Maine breweries are offering full menus of food made in-house.
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Central Maine business briefs: Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital names new president
People & Places: Waterville’s Surette Real Estate earns CENTURY 21 2021 Quality Service Pinnacle Award.
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Johnson & Johnson, 3 distributors finalize $26 billion landmark opioid settlement
The epidemic is linked to the deaths of more than 500,000 Americans over the past two decades.
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Defense department to use world’s largest 3D-printed boat, made at UMaine
The logistics vessel was created by a 3D printer at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
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Stocks rise as fear falls despite Ukraine invasion
A drop in oil prices helps to lift the U.S. indexes.
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Maine seafood industry expects indirect hit from Russian invasion
Direct U.S. seafood imports were already banned from Russian markets, but the invasion of Ukraine could make the industry’s ongoing economic problems worse.
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Over 80% of COVID rental aid went to low-income tenants
The Treasury Department says the largest percentage of recipients were Black, followed by female-led households.
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Maine gets another $28 million for rural broadband expansion
The federal grant will fund a public-private partnership to extend high-speed internet service to thousands of people in unserved parts of the state.
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Key inflation gauge hit 6.1% in January, highest since 1982
Robust consumer spending has combined with widespread product and worker shortages to create the highest inflation in four decades.
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Signs at Portland jetport upset some who depend on fishing for livelihoods
PETA has sponsored billboard-sized signs that urge people to stop eating fish, which some see as an affront to Maine’s fishing heritage and a renowned restaurant scene that continues to struggle through the pandemic.