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NEW GLOUCESTER — OTELCO has hired several new employees for its New Gloucester office. Bryan Pahigian joins as a marketing coordinator. He has a bachelor’s degree in sports management from the University of Southern Maine and 10 years of experience working with the Portland Sea Dogs in the ticket office department. Pahigian lives in Cumberland […]
MaineHealth is investing $61 million in raises for 18,000 employees, the health care network announced Wednesday. Other major health care networks have done the same.
Ron Little has faced criticism because of comments he made during a 2019 presentation to investors in which he said there are ‘no indigenous rights in the state of Maine.’
The Lovely Idea Company has remained on its feet despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For some restaurants, lobster is no longer on the menu.
Opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. have claimed more than 500,000 lives since 1999, and Maine’s drug overdose deaths increased by 33% in 2020.
Facing criticism from Republicans that she would drain the state’s ‘rainy day fund’ and bankrupt state government, Gov. Janet Mills has grown the state’s budget stabilization fund to nearly $500 million.
While the president proposes paying for his proposals with a tax hike on corporations and wealthy Americans who earn more than $400,000 a year, the bipartisan group has been trying to figure out a compromise way to pay for its package.
A $200 million pandemic relief program is opening soon for U.S. logging and log-hauling businesses that have been seriously affected.
