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Peter Kowalski: Adjust Maine’s tax structure without penalizing nonprofits

The word “nonprofit” generally is used to describe an organization that works to serve a public purpose, rather than to provide financial benefit to any particular individual, corporation or entity. Nonprofits are granted an exemption from taxes when they have charitable, religious, educational or other purposes organized around a cause, mission or community need and […]

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Local nonprofit group kicks off fundraiser for new fitness center

AUBURN — A nonprofit group that houses, feeds, educates and supports people with physical and intellectual disabilities hopes to start providing that population with a place to go for fitness needs. John F. Murphy Homes on Tuesday launched a $25 million fundraising effort to design and build a state-of-the-art, 60,000-square-foot well-being and fitness center on […]