January 23, 2012 Edition

In Short

🔒Building permits and commercial transactions

Building permits Augusta (November 2011) $9,988,500, 51 Commerce Drive, Central Maine Commerce Center Inc., building construction, contractor: N/A $200,000, 228 Water St., Richard Parkhurst, interior renovations, contractor: N/A Ellsworth (December […]

In Short

🔒In short

New HiresHebron Academy, a private boarding school in Hebron, recently hired Liza Tarr as a communications coordinator.Putney...

Higher education

🔒Workers’ comp

Workplace injuries in Maine have decreased by more than 40% over the last two decades as job...

Arts & Culture

🔒Creativity not enough to succeed, expert says

Success in a creativity economy hinges not on the uniqueness of an idea or product but whether...

Government & Politics

🔒The U.S. Postal Service weighs consolidating its services

A proposal to consolidate postal operations in Hampden with a facility in Scarborough has raised the hackles...

News

🔒Time and time again

January brings with it a certain amount of change. Wall calendars get switched, financial statements roll over...

Energy & Utilities

🔒Maine’s newest paper maker, Cate Street Capital, says it’s committed ‘for the long term’

Cate Street Capital, the new owner of paper mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket, never intended to...

Higher education

🔒Businesses grapple with evolving social media rules

In 2010, a female ambulance worker in Connecticut fumed about her boss on Facebook, calling him names...

Agriculture

🔒Tourism, energy focus of ag show

The state wants to help make Maine farms more energy efficient and accessible to visitors, two themes...

Government & Politics

🔒The call for help

Revenues back in black Balance sheet reflects slight gains Sales tax signals possible rebound After the first six...

Higher education

🔒Theater troupe helps supervisors resolve dicey workplace issues

A typical script written by Marti Stevens Interactive Improvisational Theater for its corporate clients goes something like...

Higher education

🔒Executive compensation

When deciding how to compensate its executives, a business must examine not only the array of incentive...

Higher education

🔒Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s mobile training targets jobless

A new job training program preparing Maine's unemployed to work in the state's industrial sector is embracing...

Manufacturing

🔒Developing markets and expertise puts Maine companies in the forefront

When you say the word "textile" in Maine, it conjures up images of the old Bates Mill,...

Professional services

🔒Leadership

We talk of leadership and imagine scenes of huge roaring crowds. Rippling banners and uplifted trumpets. Adulation....

News

🔒Five criteria for selecting backup and recovery services for small businesses

If your technology assets are as valuable as you think they are, you owe it to yourself...

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