The company looks to break ground Oct. 1 on the $10 million facility in Saco, with plans to hire as many as 50 more employees to help handle as much as 100,000 pounds of lobster a day.
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A roundup of fall food festivals in southern Maine
Your guide to where you can eat seafood, drink beer and even get your lederhosen on for a stein-holding contest.
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In new culinary memoir, Dawn Drzal offers great storytelling, memorable foods, life lessons
‘The Bread and the Knife’ recounts Drzal’s life, in alphabetical order, through the lens of food.
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Sale to Canadian company will give Portland-based Ready Seafood ‘a much bigger tool box’
The deal with Premium Brands of Vancouver arose out of Ready Seafood’s search for a partner to build a new facility in Saco.
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Denied by Department of Transportation, PETA takes another crack at roadside lobster memorial
The animal rights group wants to know where it can install a tombstone for lobsters that died in a truck crash on Route 1 in Brunswick.
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PETA wants to put up a roadside tombstone in memory of lobsters that died in truck crash
The proposed marker along Route 1 in Brunswick is the latest publicity effort by animal-rights activists targeting Maine’s signature shellfish.
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Chance meeting at Harpswell tidepool set Meredith White on a career path
Now she’s running research and development for Mook Sea Farm.
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Rather than steaming it, a Portland restaurant returns ‘cotton candy’ lobster to the sea
Scales’ executive chef says, ‘It was just too interesting to cook it.’
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PETA has an uncommon message for people arriving at Portland airport: Don’t eat lobster
Ads that went up just as the Maine Lobster Festival was getting underway will remain in the airport through August, the organization said.
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Bigelow Lab’s ‘time machine’ aims to find out how shellfish will fare in the future
Scientists at the East Boothbay facility are studying the adaptability of key Gulf of Maine species.