Business
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Owner Michaela McVetty has decided to focus on her other location, in Bath.
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The former owners of the decades-old ice cream stand said that they could not come to an agreement with the new property owner about how to keep the business in operation as it was.
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More than half will do their shopping on their phones.
It runs in the business section on Thursdays.
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Over the past three decades, the traditional supermarket industry shrank as a handful of big-name grocers acquired their smaller local and regional rivals.
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The blockbuster online multiplayer game is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services.
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Interest in buying gold often comes at times of uncertainty – with potential concerns around inflation and the strength of the U.S. dollar, for example.
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Jeff McCabe, a former Democratic majority leader in the Maine House, succeeds Carolann Ouellette, who has returned to a previous role as Maine's director of tourism.
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Also, the second annual Maine Needham Festival is on Saturday; the East Bayside food and drink scene gets some love from Boston Magazine, and more local food news.
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Weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic sell in Europe for a fraction of what they cost in the United States – a pattern that is typical for brand-name prescriptions.
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The solar industry built expansive farms in Texas by leasing farmland and allowing sheep to graze on the same land. Clean energy now powers the grid.
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The complaint says Visa penalizes merchants and banks who don't use its payment processing technology to process debit transactions, even though alternatives exist.
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A report published Tuesday includes targets that each county should hit to meet a statewide goal of adding 84,000 homes by 2030. But it falls short of issuing any mandates.
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A strike would shut down 36 ports that handle roughly half the nations' cargo from ships.
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The company said the offer includes pay raises over 4 years, up from 25% in the first proposal. The union originally demanded 40% over 3 years.
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Towns want and need more housing but say they lack the developers and the money to make it happen.
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Kyle Rancourt’s connection to the Dempsey Challenge has only grown over nearly a decade that he has been participating in the challenge.
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It's the second lawsuit filed this year in Maine against insurance carriers that limit coverage of popular drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound.
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Those who owned the ice cream stand at 23 Island Ave. said the property’s new owner has other plans for the location.
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Some 45,000 dockworkers at every major eastern and Gulf coast port are threatening to strike Oct. 1.
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American companies haven’t adopted 4-day weeks as broadly as, say, Australia or Europe, but that could change.
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With holiday shopping season around the corner, experts recommend caution when your favorite store offers you a credit card.
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Shipping needs to cut emissions rapidly, and there are no solutions widely available today to fully decarbonize deep-sea shipping. But there's a lot of interest in ammonia as an alternative fuel.
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Consumer surveys show that most Americans remain unhappy with the economy, still bruised by an inflation rate that hit a 4-decade high 2 years ago as the economy rebounded from the pandemic recession.
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The new funding could fill some gaps, but bandwidth for actually using the money at the local level may remain a challenge.
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In this case, the Fed’s action was widely anticipated, so rates moved lower well before the cut was even announced.
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Authorities blamed the blast on a leak of methane gas.
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The brewery and taproom, which opened in August on the north shore of Cobbosseecontee Lake, take their inspiration from the local history of drinking and dancing.
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Despite pervasive 'supply skepticism,' the evidence suggests the answer is yes: As the number of homes grows in an area, prices tend to fall and lower-cost units get freed up. But advocates say it takes time – and there are many hurdles.
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NENPA judges said 'we applaud the newspapers’ persistent efforts to learn and report what happened, what failings may have occurred, and what, if anything, can be done to prevent another tragedy.'
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The game maker bought some land in 2017 as part of a stunt aimed at blocking a southern border wall.
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Potential supply shortages are plaguing the world's largest coffee producer as well as the second-biggest – Vietnam.
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The owner of the shuttered nuclear power plant says it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers.
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FedEx drags markets down as stocks drift around their all-time highs and close on a quieter note.
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The effort is part of the Biden administration's continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in the sector.
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The layoffs are part of a broader restructuring of the systemwide IT department, Chief Information Officer Robert Placido told workers Friday afternoon in an email obtained by the Press Herald.
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The aircraft manufacturer has started rolling furloughs of nonunion employees to conserve cash.
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Hussam Al Rawi and his wife, Kathryn Piper, opened Five Pillars Butchery, a halal meat processing business in 2017, after moving to Maine the previous year. The couple were awarded nearly $3 million in federal grants earlier this year to add a slaughterhouse to the butchery at 119 Bangor Road.
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Mortgage rates dropped in anticipation of the Federal Reserve's first rate cut in more than 4 years, meaning buyers who were priced out may start house hunting again.
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The gains followed rallies for markets across Europe and Asia after the Federal Reserve delivered the first cut to interest rates in more than four years late on Wednesday.
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Customers will soon have the option to pay directly from their bank accounts with instant transfers for online purchases.
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Tim Walz is worth about $1 million – less than about 6 out of 10 adults in his demographic. JD Vance, who grew up in poverty, is now a multimillionaire.
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The state Department of Labor hopes a new rule that went into effect Thursday will end a pattern of small fines and few collections of penalties.
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Separate teen accounts for those under 18 are part of an effort to make the platform safer for children amid growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives.
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The judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over technology that matches buyers and sellers of online advertising must choose whether to believe what Google executives wrote or what they’ve said on the witness stand.
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The national median sales price rose 3.1% from a year earlier to $416,700. That's the highest median price for August on records going back to 1999.
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Twin Rivers Paper Co. Inc. was the only mill eligible for the tax credit meant to help modernize equipment and save jobs.
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Councilor Donald Cushing, who proposed a last-minute resolution to withdraw support for the connector, called the debate over adding items to an agenda midmeeting "parliamentary hoo-ha."
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The Artisan's Marketplace will be between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday at 9 Market Square
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The nonendorsement comes 2 days after union leaders and members met privately with Vice President Kamala Harris so she could lay out her case for an endorsement.
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The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube's most popular channel failed to provide minimum wages, overtime pay, uninterrupted meal breaks and rest time for competitors.
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The effects could ripple out well beyond those who lost jobs at the sprawling plant in Jarratt, a once-bustling railroad town about 60 miles south of Richmond.
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The central bank is acting because, after 11 rate hikes since March 2022, it feels confident that inflation is finally mild enough that it can begin to ease the cost of borrowing.