Maine Machine Products Co. needs precision machinists. Badly. When a customer contracts with the company to manufacture parts for anything from microwaves and airplanes to drilling systems and defense technology, machinists are the ones who make them. Without skilled workers, the business couldn’t stay afloat. “They’re craftsmen,” said human resources manager Erika Douglass. “Someone just […]
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Stand up and win
I have lived in Lewiston-Auburn for seven years and it still amazes me how the rest of the state puts the area down. Why do we let them? The Bangor and Portland newspapers came out favoring Question 2 and against the Lewiston entertainment complex. They even said, “… a casino in Lewiston is one too […]
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Carbonite hires 150 in Lewiston, two months ahead of schedule
LEWISTON — The jobs are here. Early. Six months after Carbonite announced it was moving jobs from India to a new tech call center in Lewiston, the company has hired 150 people, full time. In May, it forecast hiring that many by the end of 2012. Carbonite, headquartered in Boston, specializes in online data backup […]
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Carbonite hires 150 in Lewiston
LEWISTON — After announcing in May that it was moving to town, bringing jobs here from India, Carbonite has hit its hiring goal two months early. Company officials announced Friday that they have hired 150 people, full-time, to work in the new tech call center at the business park on Mollison Way. Carbonite, headquartered in […]
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Town art walk KINGFIELD — Kingfield is hosting another art walk on Friday, Nov. 4. Each venue will fly a large red flag. Locations include the Mountain Village Farm, Scentsations, Stadler Gallery of Contemporary Art, Reinholt Gallery’s Western Maine Artist Collective, the Herbert Hotel, CSM, Ski Museum of Maine, Orcutt Schoolhouse Nature Photography Gallery and […]
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Maine state workers’ union files complaint
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s largest state workers’ union has filed a complaint with the Maine Labor Relations Board accusing the state negotiators of violating the law as the two sides tried to reach an agreement on new contract. The complaint filed Monday by the Maine State Employees Association says the state abandoned negotiations at […]
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Maine paper workers return to work at mills
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage on Monday greeted dozens of paper workers who have returned to work in a northern Maine mill that’s reopened under a sale brokered by the state. About 250 workers have resumed making paper at Great Northern Paper Co.’s East Millinocket mill during the past few weeks. The […]
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Kestrel Aircraft may build plant in Berlin, N.H., not Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — Facing difficulties in obtaining financing, Kestrel Aircraft CEO Alan Klapmeier said Wednesday that his company is looking at Berlin, N.H., as a possible site to build the composites for its turboprop airplanes. That would leave assembly and maintenance and repair operations at Brunswick Landing, the former naval station. Although Klapmeier said he was […]