AUBURN — Great Falls Marketing has joined the Support Services Group family of contact centers. Great Falls Marketing was founded in 1999 and has been owned and operated by Scott MacCheyne and Mike Frautten since 2011. It has 400 employees in Auburn, Augusta, Westbrook and Saco. Support Services Group, headquartered in Waco, Texas, is a […]
Kathryn Skelton
Kathryn Skelton is a business reporter at the Sun Journal covering local industries large and small. She writes features and deep-dive analysis, keeps up with local happenings, closings and rumors in a regular business Buzz column, and at least once a month, writes about Bigfoot, ghosts or something equally intriguing in the "Weird, Wicked Weird" series. She's a proud Maine native, grew up in the Gardiner area and also proudly graduated from the University of Maine's journalism program. She's been a reporter at the paper for 20 years. When not working, she enjoys traveling, reading, corgi-walking and adventuring with her husband and two boys.
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Androscoggin Historical Society hires Renee Giusti
AUBURN — Renee Giusti has been hired as the administrative assistant of the Androscoggin Historical Society. She has experience in sales and customer support at companies in New York and as office manager of Four Star Lighting and Electric in Lowell, Massachusetts. Locally, she has been a preregistration specialist at St. Mary’s/St. Joseph’s Medical Center […]
advertisement
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Tom Fales named Veterans Affairs Congressional Fellow
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced that Tom Fales, a Lewiston native, has been selected as a Department of Veterans Affairs Congressional Fellow in her Washington, D.C., office. Fales previously served as an intern in Collins’ Lewiston office and as an intern for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee when Collins was […]
Posted inBusiness, Giving Back
Mechanics Savings donates to High Street Food Pantry, Trinity Jubilee Center
AUBURN — Biddeford Savings and Mechanics Savings recently donated $22,500 to local food pantries in their market areas to help fight the issue of food insecurity. Maine ranks 12th in the nation for food insecurity. In the first week after the merger between Biddeford Savings and Mechanics Savings, both divisions wanted to address the issue […]
Posted inBusiness, Giving Back
Emerson Chevrolet-Buick donates to St. Mary’s Nutrition Center
AUBURN — Emerson Chevrolet-Buick co-sponsored the 7th annual Commit to Get Fit initiative in November at the St. Mary’s Nutrition Center, donating $1,500. Commit to Get Fit promotes a healthy lifestyle. The proceeds from the event also benefit the Marguerite d’Youville Fund for the Needy, which helps people in need in a variety of ways.
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
CMCC offers database fundamentals course
AUBURN — The Center for Workforce & Professional Development at Central Maine Community College will offer a MTA Database Fundamentals certification course from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fridays from Feb. 21 until March 20. The course begins with core database concepts, how to create database objects and manipulate data, understand data storage and explore […]
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Carbonite call center moving within Lewiston, no other changes planned, say new owners
The Canadian-based tech company OpenText bought Carbonite Inc. on Dec. 24 for $1.45 billion.
Posted inBusiness
Working: Tim Cook, five decades-plus of towing
Cook was pinned into the Order of Towman in an Atlantic City ceremony last month.
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Amy Dieterich becomes partner at Skelton Taintor & Abbott
AUBURN — Attorney Amy Dieterich, whose practice areas include employment law, labor law, family law, commercial litigation and municipal and government law, became a shareholder (partner) at Skelton Taintor & Abbott on Jan. 1. Dieterich joined the firm in 2014. She received her bachelor’s degree in economics, cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College and her […]
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Chamber Buzz: 40 Under 40 is back
* Geiger speakers make the case for working from home
* A new chamber board president is named
* $3,500 seats at the “regional leader” table are going fast