1934 – 2015 AUBURN — Anton Topole, 80, of Buckfield passed away on Sunday, Aug. 16, with his family by his side. He was born Dec. 1, 1934, in Celje, Yugoslavia, to Izadora (Cuk) and Anton Topole. He spent two years in international refugee camps before coming to America at the age of 16. Anton […]
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Safety officials call Greene contractor ‘serial violator,’ seek court help
GREENE — Federal officials say a Greene-based roofing contractor is a “serial violator” of safety laws and needs to be put in jail if he continues to ignore them and the more than $400,000 in fines levied against him since 2000. Owner Stephen Lessard said Wednesday that he has been unfairly targeted by his competitors […]
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Jobs forecast shows fall in manufacturing, growth in health care work in Maine
PORTLAND — In the Maine of 10 years from now, jobs making things, moving things and selling things are expected to decline as jobs in health care, education and hospitality industries increase. That doesn’t necessarily mean work making things will dry up, as the bulk of job openings will be to replace people retiring, but […]
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Maine workplace fatalities decline 27 percent in 2012
PORTLAND — The number of people who died in 2012 because of work-related accidents in Maine declined 27 percent compared with 2011, when that number hit the highest one-year total since 2003. A Maine Department of Labor report released Monday found that 19 people died because of accidents at work in 2012, compared with 26 […]
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Livermore Falls fined for workplace violations; corrective action underway
LIVERMORE FALLS — The state’s Bureau of Labor Standards has fined the town $4,200 for dozens of workplace condition violations in departments and at the Public Works Garage, Transfer Station, library, Fire Station, Police Station, Town Office and Treatment Plant. The town has until Nov. 14 to correct the deficiencies, and then the penalty could […]
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Maine gets $758,947 to improve unemployment programs
Maine is getting $758,947 in federal funds to improve the quality of the state’s unemployment insurance program. The funding from the U.S. Labor Department is part of more than $87 million awarded to 46 states. The grants were announced on Monday. U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez says the grants will allow state agencies to upgrade […]
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Sheriffs aim to keep inmates from collecting unemployment
AUBURN — Serving jail time for a drunken-driving arrest or sitting in a cell awaiting trial for drug-dealing, robbery or murder ought to prevent you from receiving unemployment benefits. That was what Androscoggin County Sheriff Guy Desjardins figured when he saw a newspaper story about a Georgetown man, Joshua Harwood, who was sentenced to two […]
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State committee votes to continue discussion of Dept. of Labor probe
AUGUSTA — A special federal audit has found no evidence of bias or undue political influence in the outcomes of unemployment compensation appeals hearings at the Maine Department of Labor, a state official has reported to the Legislature. In her report to the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee on Thursday, Maine Labor Commissioner Jeanne Paquette highlighted […]
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Department of Labor warns of scam Maine Job Bank posting
LEWISTON — The Maine Department of Labor has issued a warning that a Maine Job Bank posting from someone pretending to be from Central Maine Medical Center was actually a scam seeking applicants’ financial information. The scammer used CMMC’s federal employer identification number to advertise for an administrative assistant and a bookkeeper, the Department of […]
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Our View: Do not create an unfair barrier to public access
On Tuesday, a working group of the municipal officials presented the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee with a handful of recommendations, including vastly increasing the cost for public access to documents under Maine’s Freedom of Access Act. A very similar proposal came before the state’s Right to Know Advisory Committee and then the Judiciary Committee last year […]