TOPSHAM — Steven Raymond has recently returned to Maine to be closer to his family, and has joined up with Jill Wallace in the management of 56 Elm Street Assisted Living in Topsham. Raymond has long experience in senior care. He was director of Eldercare, Inc. in Los Angeles for 12 years and was director […]

PHIPPSBURG — Sebasco Harbor Resort recently announced that after a nationwide search, Isaac Aldrich has been named the property’s executive chef. Aldrich, a native of Durham and a graduate of Brunswick High School, returns to his home state after eight years in Denver, Colo., where he was executive sous chef at Epicurean Catering LLC, which […]

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MESSAGE: The chamber is a place to find multiple opportunities for businesses to network together and many times generate hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars’ worth of business. One such opportunity is tonight, Wednesday, May 28, and it’s called Chamber After Hours. This open house-style event occurs from 5 to 7 p.m. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers were slightly more confident in the economy in May than in April, partly because of strengthening optimism about future hiring and income gains. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its confidence index rose to 83 from a revised 81.7 in April. That’s the second-highest reading since January 2008, just after […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose in March, but the gains are decelerating as fewer Americans can afford to buy. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20- city home price index rose 12.4 percent in March compared with 12 months earlier. While healthy, that rate of growth has slowed from both February and January. Home prices […]