LEWISTON Kenneth Albert, Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice president and CEO, recently announced the addition of three new clinical staff positions. Jim Schneid, MD, was hired as a per diem staff physician in Hospice. Schneid is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame; SUNY Upstate Medical Center; and was a resident in family practice […]

Maine isn’t regarded as a hot spot for fast-growing companies, but there is one category of commerce that has been doing exceptionally well in the state: women-owned businesses. From 2007 to 2018, Maine ranked first among the 50 states and the District of Columbia for both revenue and job growth among women-owned businesses, according to […]

BATH Bath Savings Institution was recently named one of Maine’s Best Places to Work for the fifth year in a row. Best Places to Work in ME is a program that was created in 2006 to foster business growth and excellence throughout the state. The recognition, given by the Society for Human Resource Management, highlights […]

Occasionally in this column, I like to highlight several different observations about activities happening in the business community locally, or even statewide. Rather than tying them into a narrative, I offer 10 observations in bulleted list format — at approximately 100 words per blurb. Here are 10 observations for fall:  It’s Still Tourist Season. […]

As a drug enforcement agent, Scott Durst spent three decades trying to put illegal drug dealers in jail, both in Maine and abroad. Now the retired police officer is making a second career for himself as a private security consultant for Maine’s legal cannabis growers, transporting cash between five state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries and the […]

PORTLAND Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, recently announced a total of nearly $530,000 in federal grants for several small businesses in Maine. The funds comes from two USDA Rural Development programs Pingree has strongly advocated for in Congress — the Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP) and Value Added Producer Grants (VAPG). “These REAP grants will […]

Using crowbars and jackhammers, thieves broke into Dawson and Kelly Julia’s medical cannabis grow in Unity two years ago, forcing their way past a locked steel door and boarded-up window to steal 60 marijuana plants valued at more than $50,000 from this husbandand wife caregiver business. In under an hour, East Coast CBD’s entire marijuana […]

Never get between a university and its trademarks. That’s the lesson dozens of people learn every year when they unwittingly provoke the wrath of big universities and the lawyers they hire to protect their mascots, slogans and logos. Records gathered by The Associated Press show that some major universities send their lawyers after even slight […]

BRUNSWICK T he local restaurant scene is set to expand with two new steakhouses, both being opened by owners of other businesses in town. Scott Moody, owner of Moody’s Seafood, will open Black Pearl Raw Oyster Bar Steakhouse at 32 Bath Road. And at 11 Pleasant St., Becky Marcos and Wayne Bartlett, owners of Lighthouse […]

When trying to convince someone of any particular thing, every appeal can be broken down into two core tenets: the head or the heart. You persuade by either appealing to the logic of the argument and why it’s sound reasoning or makes good fiscal sense in the big picture — the head argument — or […]