The fourth-generation family farm persisted throughout the challenges COVID-19 presented.
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Posted inBusiness, Kennebec Journal, Maine
Central Maine companies seek workers through drive-thru job fairs
The drive-thru option gives organizations struggling to fill vacancies during the COVID-19 pandemic a different way to recruit people, who can apply from the safe distance of their vehicles.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Postal Service looks to raise price of 1st-class stamp to 58 cents
The Washington Post reports that the price hikes also are being accompanied by hundreds of layoffs of ‘management-level employees.’
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Stocks cling to modest gains and end the week higher
Gains in technology and health care companies outweighed a slide in communications stocks and retailers.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
CEO pay rose to $12.7 million in 2020 even as pandemic ravaged economy
That’s 5% more than the median pay for that same group of chief executives in 2019 and an acceleration from the 4.1% climb in last year’s survey.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
U.S. says agencies largely fended off latest Russian hack
Microsoft says it believes that most of the emails in the cyberespionage onslaught were blocked by automated systems that marked them as spam.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Nine-unit apartment building project approved on China Road in Winslow
The town planning board earlier this month approved the project at the site of the former Great Northern Fudge Co.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, New England, News, Politics, Uncategorized
After receiving complaint, state says CMP-backed corridor complying with permit for tree-cutting
Opponents of the high-voltage transmission line through western Maine have alleged that contractors cut a wider swath through the forest than its environmental permit allows.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Waterville returning to its roots as credit union, student plant elm trees
New Dimensions Federal Credit Union planted an elm tree in 2020 and is encouraging others to do the same.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Alewives, once eyed for endangered list, make a comeback in Maine
Two species of river herring, alewives and blueback herring, are growing in number thanks to restoration projects after the removal of the Edwards Dam.