The company adopts a new minimum wage of $9, compared with the state’s minimum of $7.50 an hour.
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Posted inMaine, News
Portland’s acting city manager leaving post
Sheila Hill-Christian is leaving the top job at City Hall to take a position as assistant city manager in Cincinnati.
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Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
South Portland council gives initial OK to rezoning needed by armory project
SOUTH PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday unanimously approved a first reading of a proposal to rezone the World War II-era former Maine Army National Guard Armory property. Rezoning the land from Residential A to a new Conditional Armory Zone is required for the planned $2.5 million conversion of the armory into a multi-functional gas […]
Posted inBusiness
‘Shark Tank’ show to look for applicants in Portland
Applicants will have one minute to pitch their business to a member of the show’s casting team.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Brunswick business sees future in land-farmed ocean fish
BRUNSWICK — An Industrial Parkway aquaculture company believes consumers could soon be buying tasty, sustainable ocean fish – grown on Maine soil. Acadia Harvest has received a $657,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for its efforts to raise fish in a “zero-waste” indoor system. The funding is the second phase of a Small Business Innovation […]
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Two Portland burglary suspects found hiding in basement
Tyler I. Dias, 21, and Kevin S. McCarron, 22, both of Portland, were arrested Tuesday after police received a 911 call from the mother of a 16-year-old girl who was home alone, heard the men enter and hid in a closet.
Posted inThe Maine Forecast
April snow on the way, but so is milder weather
A cold morning with a brisk breeze reminds us that it’s still early April. There were even more sub-zero readings in northern Maine earlier today. Temperatures right now are still only in the upper 30s. A series of fronts will act as the focal point for small areas of low pressure and associated precipitation through […]
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Murder trial, Day 3: Officer found tense scene, smelled alcohol on gunman after bee farm shooting
Michael Edes testifies that he was seconds away from ‘aggressive’ action to get control while a wounded man lay in the driveway, still breathing.
Posted inLife & Culture
Reflections on ‘American Pie,’ after Don McLean sells manuscript for $1.2 million
The songwriter has said “there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of ‘American Pie.’ ”
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