The new state authority wants to create business space and housing in empty properties that private and municipal developers won’t take on.
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Maine’s long-term care facilities struggle amid labor shortage
The shortage affects nursing home and assisted-living jobs of all kinds, from nurses and personal care assistants, to food service workers and maintenance staff.
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Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News
New Hampshire man killed in weekend vehicle crash
Benjamin Harvey, a 23-year-old from Rollinsford, New Hampshire, was pronounced dead at the scene in Indian Purchase Township, police said.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
GWI to expand fiber-optic broadband networks in 5 Maine communities
The planned fiber-optic expansion will be accessible to 12,000 homes and businesses, including some in South Portland.
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Portland startup to lease part of former East Millinocket mill
The company will convert low-grade wood into a product used by farmers.
Posted inLocal & State, Religion and Values
The preacher and the plague
The Rev. Todd Bell continues to flout public health measures aimed at keeping the pandemic in check. His backstory helps explain why.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Op-eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Mainers can face COVID-19 head-on, or they can hide behind God
The Sanford preacher at the center of Maine’s worst pandemic outbreak promises the ‘pestilence’ will be smote from on high.
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East Millinocket buys former paper mill site
Town plans to redevelop the site of the former Great Northern Paper Company mill for industrial users.
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Aid coming to Maine to help communities hit by mill closures
A federal-state partnership is providing more than $2 million to assist the forest products industry in Maine.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State
Maine man sentenced to 45 years in cold-case killing, but maintains he’s innocent
Philip Scott Fournier was found guilty by a judge this year of killing 16-year-old Joyce McLain in East Millinocket in 1980.