LEWISTON – Community Credit Union has presented $500 to SeniorsPlus, the Aging and Disability Resource Center for Western Maine. SeniorsPlus provides services to older adults, adults with disabilities and their families in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. The agency operates Meals on Wheels, which provided more than 150,000 meals in 2017. Community Credit Union has branches […]
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Newry selectmen learn more about food waste program
NEWRY — Newry selectmen heard Tuesday from Dean Richmond of Mason Township about his food waste program. Richmond attended a selectmen’s meeting last year, when he first presented the board with information on his composting efforts. Richmond, who lives and works at Pleasant River Farms, started composting as an easy, affordable way to dispose of agricultural […]
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Maine Oxy golf tourney nets biggest donation to date
AUBURN — Maine Oxy recently raised a record-breaking $20,000 at its annual charity golf tournament Sept. 15 to benefit The Travis Mills Foundation. The foundation is a nonprofit organization formed to benefit and assist wounded and injured veterans and their families. In June 2017, the foundation opened its national retreat center in Rome, where veterans and […]
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Maine wins concessions from Mass., N.H. in bait protections
The American Lobster Board took a first step toward adopting regional bait safety rules, voting Monday to develop a resolution to prohibit the use of exotic baits that could introduce disease, parasites or invasive species to East Coast waters. The board unanimously agreed on the need to shield native species, including the $1.4 billion Maine […]
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Leading GI specialist joins Central Maine Healthcare
LEWISTON — Dr. Sean McGarr, a gastroenterologist who is considered a leading provider in Maine and has been honored for his advanced endoscopic therapy, has joined Central Maine Healthcare as a medical director. McGarr recently practiced at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta. He will join CMH next month as medical director for gastroenterology and endoscopy. […]
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Webber, Pross and Hay to present at MSMA Conference
AUBURN — Skelton Taintor & Abbott attorneys Rebecca S. Webber, James F. Pross and Jordan Payne Hay will present at the 45th Annual Maine School Management Association Conference. It will be held Thursday and Friday at the Augusta Civic Center and feature speakers, product and service vendors, and more than 50 clinics on educational topics. […]
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Drumroll, please: Newport company continues to thrive
NEWPORT — Tucked into a residential neighborhood near Sebasticook Lake rests what some might consider the world’s greatest matchmaker. On High Street, it is not people who are coupled, but drumsticks.The Newport site, now under the ownership of the Avedis Zildjian Co. (known for its cymbals), churns out about 5 million pairs of sticks each year, […]
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Maine Turnpike Authority awards $39.5 million contract for new York tollbooth
The Maine Turnpike Authority plans to begin construction of a new tollbooth plaza in York next month. Reed and Reed, a construction firm from Woolwich, was awarded a $39.5 million contract for the three-year project Thursday. The company will build a new tollbooth plaza about a mile and a half north of the present tolls […]
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Canal bridge work continues
Chad Rogers straddles what is left of the foundation of the old bridge across the canal on Beech Street in Lewiston at the entrance of Simard-Payne Memorial Park on Thursday as he unhooks sheet piles. He was part of a team from Reed & Reed Inc. lifting the giant sheet piles that are driven 20 […]
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Cantz named new chief executive of Goodwill NNE
A Portland-based organization that advocates for the disabled has named a new chief executive. Goodwill Northern New England’s board of directors named Richard J. Cantz as president and CEO of the not-for-profit organization that serves Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. He replaces Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who will continue to serve Goodwill as a special adviser. […]