The two busiest days of the month are coming next week – when Social Security and disability payments are available. Community Credit Union and others are gearing up with no lobbies and no business as usual.
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, Lewiston-Auburn, The Buzz
Lewiston edible insect supplier gains more access to restaurants
* Two companies see growth
* One moves in
* And you’ll never guess Maine’s favorite jelly bean flavor
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Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston manufacturer creates WeHaveFaceMasks.com to sell cotton masks at cost
Allen Manufacturing has a dozen stitchers sewing thousands of masks and shipping all over the country.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Great Falls Marketing looking to hire 100 remote workers ASAP
The new hires will join the Auburn company’s existing 340 employees.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
WOXO says farewell to listeners; Gleason Radio Group to go silent after 45 years
The five stations will go off the air at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Hannaford donates to Good Shepherd Food Bank
AUBURN — Hannaford Supermarkets is donating $100,000 to Good Shepherd Food Bank to support the food bank as it experiences increasing and unprecedented demand during the widening of the COVID-19 global pandemic. It’s part of a $250,000 donation to food banks in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and New York. Additionally, Hannaford is kicking off […]
Posted inBusiness, Giving Back
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation donates to Good Shepherd Food Bank
AUBURN — Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation donated $150,000 to Good Shepherd Food Bank for community-based food access. It was part of a regionwide donation of more than $3 million for COVID-19 relief efforts by supporting community and nonprofit organizations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. As part of its initial $3 million distribution […]
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
$1.2M expansion proposed for Auburn cannabis business park
The project would include 14 new buildings, most of them greenhouses.
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Susan Faunce elected to national board
LEWISTON — Berman & Simmons attorney Susan Faunce has been elected as a revitalization governor from Maine for the American Association for Justice Board of Governors. This position is reserved for only one lawyer in each state, and Faunce will serve a two-year term. She succeeds revitalization governor and Berman & Simmons colleague Michael Bigos. […]
Posted inBusiness
Area restaurants offering takeout
The state ordered all restaurants and bars to close, but they can offer takeout.