SOUTH PORTLAND — The Southern Maine Community College Foundation has named five new members to its board of directors. The new members are: • Jane Eberle, director of business partnerships for the South Portland School Department and president of the South Portland/Cape Elizabeth Community Chamber of Commerce. • Michael Vaillancourt, attorney and partner with Ainsworth, […]

AUGUSTA — Dennis Shores has been elected to the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership board of directors. Shores is owner and chief financial officer of Xuron Corp. of Saco. a manufacturer of ergonomic, electronics-grade hand tools.

TOPSHAM — Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, with a location in Topsham, has announced that the annual Boys & Girls Club fundraiser runs now through Oct. 31. This event benefits Boys & Girls chapters throughout the region. All 106 Ninety Nine Restaurants will be participating. “One of our restaurant’s top priorities is our passion to […]

BATH — Perry, Fitts, Boulette and Fitton CPAs, located in Bath and Oakland, recently hired Nicklaus DeBlois to help further develop firm growth in the central Maine and Midcoast regions. DeBlois earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering technology from the University of Maine. After college, he worked as a sales engineer, covering the Maine […]

TOPSHAM Wright-Pierce recently announced the 2016 recipients of the company’s student scholarship program. This year’s recipients, family members of Wright-Pierce engineers and support staff, are: Matthew Atherton, Jocelyn Davee, Megan Hallowell, Alexander Olson, Erin Olson, Abigail Pearce, Hannah Peters, Emma Soucek, Lucy Soucek, Julia Wainwright, Madeline Wiegman and Alex Williamson. Those with Maine ties include: […]

Lots of discussion has arisen recently about minimum wage and in Maine there is a referendum question on the ballot which proposes a minimum wage increase to $12 by 2020, from $7.50 now. Also, if Question 4 passes, the law will also include inflation increases after 2020, and an elimination of the tip credit, which […]

BRUNSWICK 1. First of all, please give us a little history about Keith Field, Goldsmith. The Field family has owned and operated jewelry stores in Brunswick since the late 1800s. Each generation has served Brunswick through different aspects of the industry. T. Albert Field was trained at Tiffany and owned jewelry stores in Brunswick and […]

WISCASSET — Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce’s next Business After Hours will be Thursday, Oct. 6, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., hosted by Peregrine Turbine Technologies, LLC, located at 29 South Point Drive in Wiscasset. Peregrine Turbine Technologies is a Maine limited liability company focused on the development and deployment of a new generation of gas turbine […]

U.S. home prices rose again in July, pulled up by strong gains in Portland, Seattle and Denver. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20- city home price index, released Tuesday, rose 5 percent in July from a year earlier after increasing 5.1 percent in June. The latest report is further evidence that prices are being […]

“That’s what I think, but that needs to stay between us.” “Oh, I wish people really knew the whole story.” “Well, you won’t win any customers saying that.” — Anonymous business owners Politics. The partner of religion when it comes to conversational faux pas. “Don’t bring up politics and religion in mixed company.” We’ve all […]