With the potential for hundreds of refugees arriving in the next year, a coalition of five immigrant-led groups in Lewiston has started meeting to plan how to make the arrivals go more smoothly and how to make Lewiston feel like home.
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Americans will hit the road with highest gas price since 2014
The national average price at the pump hit $3.045 per gallon this month.
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Central Maine business briefs: UMA vice president receives award
People & Places: Benton company names new director of programs.
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Barney Wright keeps focus on family, eco-friendly farming during pandemic struggles
The fourth-generation family farm persisted throughout the challenges COVID-19 presented.
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Central Maine companies seek workers through drive-thru job fairs
The drive-thru option gives organizations struggling to fill vacancies during the COVID-19 pandemic a different way to recruit people, who can apply from the safe distance of their vehicles.
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Postal Service looks to raise price of 1st-class stamp to 58 cents
The Washington Post reports that the price hikes also are being accompanied by hundreds of layoffs of ‘management-level employees.’
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Stocks cling to modest gains and end the week higher
Gains in technology and health care companies outweighed a slide in communications stocks and retailers.
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CEO pay rose to $12.7 million in 2020 even as pandemic ravaged economy
That’s 5% more than the median pay for that same group of chief executives in 2019 and an acceleration from the 4.1% climb in last year’s survey.
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U.S. says agencies largely fended off latest Russian hack
Microsoft says it believes that most of the emails in the cyberespionage onslaught were blocked by automated systems that marked them as spam.
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Nine-unit apartment building project approved on China Road in Winslow
The town planning board earlier this month approved the project at the site of the former Great Northern Fudge Co.