AUBURN — A winding, 87-foot, wooden bar top is installed. There is room for a dozen 275-gallon tanks. And one-quarter of an actual food truck is mounted on a wall. Side By Each Brewing Co. and The Poutine Factory are nearly ready to open. The new businesses, announced last summer, are in the former, 10,480-square-foot […]
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Cory King: A Few of My Favorite Things from 2018
I hope you are enjoying this December ‘Making a List’ series, where each Wednesday in December I have created unique lists about what is happening now, what has happened in 2018 and what is coming in 2019. If you missed our first two installments, please check out the past Wednesday Times Record editions, or contact […]
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Developers resume push in Falmouth for mixed-use project with 21 buildings
Developers of the proposed Falmouth Center, a massive multipurpose development along Route 1 in Falmouth, have returned with an updated proposal after running up against neighborhood opposition last summer. The Falmouth Town Council is scheduled to meet Thursday morning to continue discussing the proposal, which asks for revised zoning of the parcel where the complex […]
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As Wreaths Across America has grown, so has scrutiny about its practices
A Maine nonprofit that places wreaths on veterans’ graves has seen explosive growth in donations over the past decade, its revenues growing from $227,000 in 2011 to $14.6 million last year. As Wreaths Across America has grown, the company from which it buys all of its wreaths has reaped similar rewards. But the nonprofit and […]
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Brunswick-based CEI provided businesses with $89 million in 2018
Brunswick-based community development financial institution Coastal Enterprises Inc. issued $16.4 million in loans to 86 rural businesses in 2018, the organization reported Tuesday. In all, CEI and its various subsidiaries provided over $89 million in financing to 103 businesses in mostly rural regions across Maine and the U.S., including loans, microloans, equity and tax credit-incentivized […]
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Freeport dog owner turns his Lab’s Instagram following into a full-time job
How does a spunky Laborador retriever become a force in the emerging and slightly mysterious field of influencer marketing? By burrowing full speed into leaf piles, trying to squeeze herself into children’s furniture, biting trees and bathing in mud whenever possible. At least that’s how Stella is doing it. She gets some help from owner […]
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Workforce recruitment group launches new strategy to lure people to Maine
Almost three years ago, Live and Work in Maine started a campaign to convince tourists that the state was a place to move to for a career. Now, the group believes it has a winning strategy to launch an aggressive campaign designed to bring people into the state, fill empty professional jobs and help balance […]
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As Maine’s population ‘super ages,’ the state’s economy faces frailty
By Edward D. Murphy Portland Press Herald This is one superlative that Maine would probably like to avoid. In less than eight years, nearly one in four Mainers will be 65 or older, a situation with some serious economic consequences. Fitch Ratings, one of the country’s leading bond rating agencies, said that by 2026, Maine […]
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Maine’s udder love affair with cheese
Ten years ago, Jessica Farrar visited a farm outside of Augusta to buy a guinea pig for her son and unexpectedly fell in love with the farm’s lone water buffalo. Deep, I-have-to-have-one, love. “There was a connection,” said Farrar. “A lot of times, cows are aloof to people, they really don’t care if you’re there […]
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Flannel is back, and retailers like L.L. Bean are feeling the love
Flannel is hot. That’s a reassuring thought as Maine slips inexorably into winter. But flannel is hot in a way that transcends the warmth of the soft, cozy cotton, wool or sometimes synthetic fabric. “It’s really a fashion statement,” said Christina Binkley, the Wall Street Journal’s fashion and style columnist and author. And that fashion […]