WESTBROOK From recent shoutouts in Bon Appetit to four-page spreads in Martha Stewart’s Living, Black Dinah Chocolatiers has had no shortage of good press. But in the eight years the company’s husband and wife team has been hand-dipping gourmet truffles, there has been a lack of space and access to new customers. No more. This […]

BRUNSWICK Pemco Holdings LLC, an investor and developer of energy efficiency projects, in partnership with the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, announced in late March the completion of the Brunswick Landing LED Street Lighting Improvement Project at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. The project, which pioneered the use of dimming controls on public street lighting […]

ORONO It should come as no surprise that traveling long distances can be as physically taxing on animals as it is on people. That’s why lobster dealers, who often ship live lobsters on planes across oceans and continents, sometimes give their lobsters a physical checkup before putting them on planes. At the University of Maine, […]

MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: “It’s hard to shake hands and be hostile.” — Sandra Day O’Connor, explaining why the Supreme Court justices have the ritual of shaking hands before going into court, according to the Wickedly Fun Dictionary of Business. The most common place for a business handshake is during the time allocated […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings surged in February to a 14-year high, yet employers filled fewer of those jobs than in the previous month. On a brighter note, the Labor Department also said Tuesday that layoffs fell sharply. Taken together, the figures suggest that signs of a stumbling economy have prompted U.S. businesses to […]