BRUNSWICK Sometimes in business, product drives location while other times, as syntactical guru Yogi Berra allegedly said, it’s the other way around in reverse. During the past several years, the small, shiny drive-through building at 154 1/2 Pleasant St. — sandwiched on the southbound side between a national fast-food chain and a doggie daycare — […]

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: I recently attended a function in Brunswick where the keynote speaker stated, “Texas uses fourth-grade reading scores to project the number of prison cells they’re going to need 10 years later. And not just Texas, but Mississippi and several other states as well.” I wondered to myself, “Can — or does — Maine […]

RATES, PRICES and other economic data for the Mid-coast on Oct 1. New this week: commodities, Aug. building permits, bank rates Commodities This Last Last week week year Heating oil #21 . $3.48 $3.49 — Propane2 . 2.71 2.90 — Gas, unlead3 . 3.60 3.65 3.93 Kerosene1 . 3.87 3.90 — Firewood, dry4 235 235 […]

BATH — Are you uncertain about your career path? Women, Work, and Community is offering a free class, “Creating Your Future: Career Planning for the New Economy,” on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, Oct. 8-31, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the University College Bath/Brunswick. This workshop is open to both men and women. During […]

For the longest time, Chevrolet treated its big Impala sedan as a workhorse suitable for big fleet users. But for 2014, Chevrolet people are changing this car’s vocation. It’s about time that the roomy Impala sedan regained its status as a desirable sedan with lots of class! Consequently, the whole car has been redesigned to […]

Japanese automaker Nissan recently introduced a new generation of Versa sedans but did not include the usual hatchback version. This was because Nissan had a plan: to introduce a hatchback version that would be completely different from the sedan. And Nissan did just that—its new hatchback also has its own name, the Note. Not surprisingly, […]

Lincoln has always been Ford’s luxury brand, but over time its cars and trucks gradually became mostly spin-offs of Ford products. Realizing it was losing some of its prestige, Ford officials decided to revive the brand with some all-new, uniquely designed vehicles. The first one to be produced by the revamped Lincoln Motor Car division […]

While Acura, Honda’s luxury car division, is well known for its sporty cars, it is still pretty normal to see a bigger sedan from the Japanese manufacturer. Acura’s earlier version of this car, the RL, became a sort of test bench model for some very advanced technology. The newer RLX is no exception. It not […]

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: Starting your own business — it is still one of the American dreams open to all of us. But how do you start a business? And what is its chance for success? Can a business coach help you? I decided to ask these questions, and more, to Bob Bremm, business coach and founder […]

SCARBOROUGH — Laboratory instrumentation manufacturer Fluid Imaging Technologies recently celebrated the opening of its new corporate headquarters in Scarborough. The new facility features a state-of-the-art new product development research and engineering laboratory and a dedicated sample testing laboratory with all manufacturing, assembly, software development and sales, marketing and customer support under one roof in 17,000 […]