Some central Maine bars and eateries are canceling “wing nights” or takeout, while feeling the heat from customers complaining as menu prices increase.
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Tyson raising workers’ pay to keep up as demand for chicken takes flight
The company cites government stimulus payments, enhanced unemployment benefits, health concerns and lack of child care as factors for high absenteeism and worker turnover.
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Posted inMaine
Waterville council takes first vote to loosen chicken requirements
The City Council on Tuesday voted 5-2 to decrease the required minimum lot size for keeping chickens from 10,000 to 8,000 square feet and are scheduled to take a final vote Dec. 15.
Posted inMaine
Waterville business owner says late-night crowd urinates, defecates in street
Business owner John Fortier pleaded with the Waterville City Council to do its “due diligence” and address the problems, which include drug dealing and people jumping on his business roof.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Nation / World, News
Chicks shipped by mail are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars
Several Maine poultry farms have received shipments of hundreds of chicks that died while being delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, either because the shipments were delayed or mishandled.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Fowl business: Lewiston chicken owners confused about ordinance
A little-known 30,000-square-foot requirement has residents in the city wasting money on coops, and having to lay off their birds.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston’s ‘Chicken Cheat Sheet’
The keeping of up to six female chickens is permitted in the rural-agricultural, low density residential, suburban residential, medium density residential and the neighborhood conservation “A” districts on lots of no less than 30,000 square feet developed with single family detached dwellings including mobile homes on individual lots. Check the zoning of your property at […]
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Animal Tales: Durham family picks chickens for tick fix
DURHAM — Sarah Siegel had been dealing with Lyme disease for a while. But when she found the disease’s telltale bull’s-eye rash on her then-3-year-old daughter, she decided the ticks had to go. “It was terrifying. I just felt so helpless and hopeless. It just felt so out of control,” Siegel said. “You do so […]
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The Silicon Valley elite's latest status symbol: Chickens
SAN FRANCISCO — Johan Land has a life that stands out even among Silicon Valley’s tech elite: He’s the lead product manager at Waymo (formerly known as Google’s self-driving car project), a job that keeps him glued to computer screens and fixated on the future. Excelling at his work, Land said, requires an obsessive focus […]