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PublishedJanuary 16, 2020
Booming real estate market challenges businesses, home buyers
Southern Maine's real estate market keeps up a multi-year rise, sidelining buyers seeking modestly priced homes and businesses desperate for industrial space.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
Maine towns, businesses face potential 40% increase on wastewater fees
Maine environmental officials say the fee hike is needed to make up for a funding shortfall that is affecting enforcement of water quality laws.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
Groups to double Maine scholarship funding for trades, manufacturing
Nearly $100,000 will be provided for scholarships to Maine high schools and employers in skilled trades and the manufacturing sector.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
Covetrus to sell off animal health business, merge another with Spanish firm
Selling a division for $125 million will help the Portland-based company pay down debt, while the merger with Distrivet of Spain will expand its Iberian operations.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
The Wrap: A new podcast, a new wine festival and 3 new restaurants
Also, a new owner for a popular Bar Harbor lobster pound and restaurant.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2020
The Wrap: Solo Italiano and The Farm Stand forge a food partnership
Famous Dave's has closed, and Two Fat Cats is moving.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2019
New year brings raise for minimum-wage workers, in final phase of voter-approved plan
Maine's minimum wage has risen from $7.50 to $12 an hour since voters approved the increases in 2016. Supporters say it has helped low-income workers, but critics say it has hurt small businesses.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2019
Italian restaurant moving into former Anjon’s location in Scarborough
Cobblestone Grille, a small Italian restaurant in Old Orchard Beach, will re-open in a new spot – on Route 1 – and with a new name.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2019
Petition circulating to change blue laws in Norridgewock
Kerri Everett, a member of the revitalization group, said that the town voted to keep the Prohibition-era laws decades ago. Only through referendum can the town's adherence to the law be changed.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2019
Business as usual the day after Christmas at Elm Plaza in Waterville
On the day after Christmas, when more than half of all shoppers start to return or exchange items over the course of the next month, Elm Plaza shop employees say that business is normal.
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