BRUNSWICK — Facing difficulties in obtaining financing, Kestrel Aircraft CEO Alan Klapmeier said Wednesday that his company is looking at Berlin, N.H., as a possible site to build the composites for its turboprop airplanes. That would leave assembly and maintenance and repair operations at Brunswick Landing, the former naval station. Although Klapmeier said he was […]
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Lowe’s to close stores in Ellsworth, Biddeford
Lowe’s is closing stores in Ellsworth and Biddeford as part of a wider decision to shut down 20 stores nationwide, according from a release from the home improvement chain. The Auburn location will remain open. In the statement, the Mooresville, N.C.-based company said that 10 of the “underperforming” stores closed at the end of the […]
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TD Bank to transfer jobs to from New England to N.J.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — TD Bank is transferring several dozen jobs from northern New England to New Jersey. A TD Bank spokeswoman told the Bennington Banner (http://bit.ly/pnFY7D ) that just under 40 jobs in Brattleboro, Vt., Concord, N.H. and Portland, Maine are being relocated to Cherry Hill, N.J., as the bank downsizes its TD Wealth […]
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Barber Foods plant in Maine to lay off 71 workers
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A food-processing company known for its frozen stuffed chicken products says it’s cutting 71 jobs at its Portland processing plant because product lines are being moved to another plant owned by its parent company. Barber Foods was acquired by AdvancePierre Foods, of Cincinnati, last spring. A few weeks later, the company […]
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Panelists at Bates College in Lewiston say immigrants key to healthy economy
LEWISTON — Don’t think of immigration as a political issue, panelists at a Bates College round-table discussion said Thursday. Think of it as business. “National security is absolutely important,” said Jeremy Robbins, adviser to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and manager of the Partnership for a New American Economy. “Our borders are absolutely important. But […]
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Fewer attending job sessions on N.H. federal prison
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — While residents in New Hampshire’s North Country await funding for the still-empty federal prison in Berlin, some are beginning to wonder if the prison and its much-needed jobs will ever become reality. Work on the 1,280-bed prison was completed last year and a warden has been hired. Officials had hoped to […]
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P&G hiring people with disabilities at Tambrands’ Auburn plant
AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Proctor & Gamble says its diversification efforts include hiring people with disabilities at its manufacturing plant in Auburn, Maine. The company has partnered with the Maine Bureau of Rehabilitation Services as it opens a customized packaging facility at the plant. It says initial hiring challenges at the new FlexiCenter include 30 […]
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EMMC job cuts will save money
BANGOR — The Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor is cutting jobs as a way to save money. Hospital President Deborah Carey Johnson wouldn’t say how many jobs are being cut. But the nurses union says 14 nursing jobs are being targeted. Some of the areas affected by the job cuts at the 400-bed hospital […]
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Jobs! After two years of downward trends, state and local numbers are starting to pick up
LEWISTON — Michelle Short had been looking for a job for two years. She had a full work history, including a decade in Lewiston-Auburn shoe mills and time in construction. It didn’t help. Thinking training and a career change might land her a job, she went to school and trained to become a certified nursing […]