BATH — Tax Wise Financial Services, LLC recently announced that it will sponsor a free document shredding event at its office at 3 Old Brunswick Road in Bath on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 9 a.m. to noon. All shredding will be done on site by document destruction company “Without a Trace.” This is the perfect […]

AUGUSTA — Commissioner of Labor Jeanne Paquette recently announced that Morris Yachts and Reed & Reed’s Turner-Greene Bridge worksites have earned the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program Award (SHARP). This certification recognizes businesses that voluntarily undertake a rigorous safety achievement program. “Employers earn SHARP recognition by operating their facility under exemplary safety and health […]

For Chris Lively, starting a craft brewery is not only a natural next step to a lifetime surrounded by beer, it’s the continuation of a family heritage in the brewing industry that goes back for generations. Lively, 39, is the proprietor of Ebenezer’s Pub in Lovell, which he and his wife opened in 2004, and […]

U.S. employers in June advertised the most jobs in five years but hired fewer workers, a mixed sign for the recovering job market. The Labor Department said Tuesday that job openings rose 29,000 in June from May to 3.94 million. That’s the most since May 2008. Total hiring, however, declined 289,000 to 4.2 million. That’s […]

PORTLAND — The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) recently announced that the Amtrak Downeaster has partnered with the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program and Wounded Heroes Program of Maine to provide discounted fares to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and families traveling to Boston for medical treatment at Home […]

BATH — First Federal Savings & Loan Association recently announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors, Alexander “Alex” Logan and Lawrence “Max” Dawson. Logan has been employed as operations manager of House of Logan for the past 25 years. The House of Logan has shops in Bath, Boothbay Harbor and […]

BRUNSWICK — Rumford native and University of Maine at Farmington alum, Rachael Labrecque, recently launched her educational technology company called Teachley. Labrecque started Teachley with two colleagues, Kara Carpenter and Dana Pagar, while working toward their Ph.D.s in cognitive psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. All former teachers, they decided to form Teachley to help […]

LEWISTON — The Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program recognized six third-year family medicine residents at recent graduation exercises. Nancy Egan, M.D., of Brunswick Dermatology, also received an award. Honored at the commencement program were family physicians Adam Duquette, D.O.; Emily Fontaine, M.D.; Michael Johns, M.D.; Christopher Kitchens, D.O.; Shayna Lemke, D.O., and […]