* Hiring? Consider the retiree.
* A golf ball cannon? It’s a thing and it’s coming to the Chip Morrison Scholarship Scramble
* Uplift LA launches regular newcomer nights
The Buzz
The Buzz: Hello again, Auburn Taco Bell
* Grant’s Bakery is closing for a refresh.
* A Lewiston subdivision is looking to grow to 45 house lots on 60 acres.
The Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport will likely try again to find a hotel developer
Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport Manager Rick Lanman back in March opened a short window for requests for proposals from developers interested in building a small, boutique hotel on 12 acres beside one of the airport’s runways, where Maurice Roundy’s former house now stands. “We did get some questions and some developer interest, but we did not […]
The Buzz: New life for a former Lewiston social club on Lisbon Street?
* 311 Lisbon St. has a new owner
* The ‘Super Star’ Constellation that sat outside the Auburn airport for decades has a new home in the TWA Hotel in NYC, which opened last month
* The Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport will likely try again to find a hotel developer here
The Buzz: Smokey’s Greater Shows coming to Auburn Thursday
* The carnival is opening a week late — and it wasn’t the weather holding it up
* Chamber hires consultant in search for new president
* New grads for Lewiston Construction Skill Training Program
The Buzz: Chamber breakfast serves up wellness takeaways
“Walking meetings?” Why not?
28 people from 14 countries become U.S. citizens at the Auburn Public Library.
Beckie’s last breakfast.
Lewiston-Auburn back to one business-to-business trade show
The Twin Cities are back to a single business-to-business trade show and it’s happening this year on June 20, at the Norway Savings Bank Arena in Auburn. The Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council had run the Maine B2B for 22 years before becoming part of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce last year. The chamber […]
The Buzz: Denny’s reopens, a medical mystery and meet Warp + Weft
* Denny’s 1, burst water pipe 0
* Auburn’s Brand Collective rebrands
* The Twin Cities are back to one business-to-business trade show
* A $1.5M medical building approved for Sabattus Street, but who’s opening there?
The Buzz: More than $8M in new commercial development greenlit in Lewiston in May
Projects include the Walmart Distribution Center, Bates Mill No. 1, Bates College, the future home of Portland Pie Co. and more.
Maine’s most-Googled ice cream flavor? It’s vanilla for the win
WorkWiseSoftware last month released a 50-state breakdown of the most searched-for ice cream flavors by state. I know. You’re thinking, who searches online for ice cream flavors? But also, OK, tell me the goods on Maine! Turns out we’re vanilla. So are New Hampshire, North Dakota, Montana and Kansas. Wild child Vermont? Chocolate chip cookie […]