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Maine manufacturers succeed by working together

GORHAM — Maine manufacturers have faced many challenges over the past two years, from the pandemic to workforce shortages to supply chain issues. To combat those challenges, Maine MEP (Manufacturing Extension Partnership) encourages its clients to join forces and seek new collaborative opportunities. When Maine MEP brought together innovative small businesses Flowfold in Gorham and […]

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Applications are open for NVME online entrepreneurship training

New Ventures Maine (NVME) has an open call for Venturing Forth: Business Planning for Entrepreneurs, a tuition-free, comprehensive, online course starting Aug. 23. For new entrepreneurs or existing business owners, Venturing Forth helps participants create a written business plan from start to finish with feedback from facilitators and fellow entrepreneurs. The 14-week course covers topics […]

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Goodwill’s new neurorehabilitation clinical director focuses on how technology and counseling support brain injury

SCARBOROUGH — Mackenna Murtagh, Psy.D, has joined Goodwill NeuroRehab as clinical director starting July 1. Murtagh was Goodwill’s neuropsychology post-doctoral resident, and is excited to lead Goodwill’s two brain injury clinics in Scarborough and Lewiston where staff help people get back to life after a brain injury such as a stroke or car accident. Murtagh […]

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Scarborough Police invites public to discuss homeless issue

SCARBOROUGH — Homelessness in Scarborough will be the discussion at the Scarborough Police Department’s next community conversation. The public is invited to the discussion “Putting the Pieces together” at the Public Safety Building at 275 U.S. Route 1 on Wednesday, July 13 at 5 p.m. Community Policing Sgt. Steve Thibodeau and Social Services Navigator Lauren […]

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“Christmas in July” Set for Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth, and South Portland to help new Mainers, veterans, homeless

SCARBOROUGH — The middle of the summer is hardly the time you’d expect to find Christmas trees in the churches of St. John Paul II Parish, but this year, in an effort to help new arrivals to Maine, the homeless, and veterans, they stand adorned with tags of generosity in the narthex of each. “The […]

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Compassus names Maine hospice program of the year

SCARBOROUGH — The Compassus hospice program serving Scarborough has earned the organization’s distinguished title of Hospice Program of the Year. The Maine program outperformed its peers throughout the country in six Pillars of Success categories including regulatory compliance, culture, quality care, service excellence, expanding access to service and fiscal responsibility. Compassus established its Pillars of […]

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Joseph Klenk – A life of service, community involvement, family and friendships

Joe Klenk, received a Lifetime Achievement Award through Maine Health Care Association’s Remember Me program at the Augusta Civic Center June 1. Klenk, a resident of Enclave of Scarborough, and several others across the state of Maine were given this prestigious honor to recognize them for their service to their country and their communities. Joe […]