Doug Grant prepares Irish cream cakes for St. Patrick’s Day at his family business, Grant’s Bakery, in Lewiston on Friday. “It will be a good day,” he said. Business related to smaller holidays has fallen off a bit, he said. “But Easter is coming up and that is huge for us, and Thanksgiving and Christmas […]
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Grant's Bakery owner to address L-A Rotary
LEWISTON — Donald Grant of Grant’s Bakery will be the featured speaker at the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Club meeting at noon Thursday, March 16, at the Ramada Inn. Grant has been working at the bakery since age 9, when it was two floors below his bedroom. Grant, has his hands in most parts of the business. […]
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Profits and politics
Lip gloss. Hoodies. Hot dogs. It isn’t just TV stations and the post office benefiting from this election season’s heated campaigns in Maine. Fired up by the last presidential debate, Amanda Nelson, owner of a small Maine soap company behind quirky scents like Unicorn Farts and Bloody Lumberjack, created 40 tubes of Nasty Woman lip […]
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Grant’s Bakery founder remembered for business, community service
AUBURN — Irving Grant, founder of Grant’s Bakery and man about town, passed away on Saturday, leaving a legacy of business and community involvement. Grant was surrounded by loving family, including his sons, grandchildren and third wife, Opal Duchette. Grant may be most well known for co-founding Grant’s Bakery, now on Sabattus Street, a Lewiston […]
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Six Questions for the CEO: Don Grant, baking good business
Don Grant’s parents founded Grant’s Bakery in 1956 and he started there at the ripe age of 9. Now president and treasurer, he still works the pie line, decorates cakes, keeps the books and could tell you how many rolls were made on May 18, 2000, (360), how many angel cakes on May 18, 2005, […]
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Reporters notebook: Heavy snow busting snow removal budgets
LEWISTON — Ahhh, winter may be coming to an end, but the red ink from snow removal is showing up like mud in March. Lewiston School Superintendent Bill Webster tweeted a photo of snow being removed from the roof of the Lewiston Regional Technical Center last month. The pile nearly reached the roof. Webster tweeted […]