The governor is urging tourists to stay away and residents to limit travel, and leaders are reimposing caps on sizes of social gatherings.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Prime Automotive reportedly looking to sell all dealerships in Maine
Automotive News reports that the company wants to sell all 31 of its dealerships by the end of the year, including the seven it owns in Maine.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
Powell signals Fed may start removing pandemic-related support to economy
The central bank has been buying $120 billion a month in mortgage and Treasury bonds to try to hold down longer-term loan rates to spur borrowing and spending.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
CVS limits purchases of rapid COVID-19 tests, citing demand
The renewed demand for testing has arisen just as the delta variant threatens many people’s plans to return to work and school this fall.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Nation / World, Religion & Values
Conservative shift on U.S. Supreme Court could affect legal challenge to Maine’s vaccine mandate
The lawsuit is challenging the state’s vaccine mandate for health care workers over its lack of a religious exemption, and it could become a test case on whether such mandates must include religious exemptions.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine
Philanthropist Donald Sussman donates $2 million to Blue Hill hospital
The money will help fund a new hospital, which will have a full-service emergency department, laboratory, imaging, rehabilitation services and primary and select specialty care as well as individual patient rooms.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Business, Oxford Hills
Why Norway is one of Maine’s ‘best small-town downtowns’ according to Down East magazine
The town was included in a July articles.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
David Flanagan, CMP executive chairman and Maine business icon, is battling cancer
Flanagan will take on the less demanding role of senior advisor when incoming President and CEO Joseph A. Purington takes over at the end of September.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
Delta Air Lines imposes fee on unvaccinated employees
The surcharge, which begins in November, equates to a $2,400 cut in annual pay.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
CMP appoints New England energy exec as its next president, CEO
Joseph A. Purington, president of operations for Eversource Energy in New Hampshire, said he will use his past CMP experience to restore public trust.