Lowe’s is closing stores in Ellsworth and Biddeford as part of a wider decision to shut down 20 stores nationwide, according from a release from the home improvement chain. The Auburn location will remain open. In the statement, the Mooresville, N.C.-based company said that 10 of the “underperforming” stores closed at the end of the […]
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TD Bank to transfer jobs to from New England to N.J.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — TD Bank is transferring several dozen jobs from northern New England to New Jersey. A TD Bank spokeswoman told the Bennington Banner (http://bit.ly/pnFY7D ) that just under 40 jobs in Brattleboro, Vt., Concord, N.H. and Portland, Maine are being relocated to Cherry Hill, N.J., as the bank downsizes its TD Wealth […]
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Barber Foods plant in Maine to lay off 71 workers
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A food-processing company known for its frozen stuffed chicken products says it’s cutting 71 jobs at its Portland processing plant because product lines are being moved to another plant owned by its parent company. Barber Foods was acquired by AdvancePierre Foods, of Cincinnati, last spring. A few weeks later, the company […]
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Panelists at Bates College in Lewiston say immigrants key to healthy economy
LEWISTON — Don’t think of immigration as a political issue, panelists at a Bates College round-table discussion said Thursday. Think of it as business. “National security is absolutely important,” said Jeremy Robbins, adviser to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and manager of the Partnership for a New American Economy. “Our borders are absolutely important. But […]
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Fewer attending job sessions on N.H. federal prison
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — While residents in New Hampshire’s North Country await funding for the still-empty federal prison in Berlin, some are beginning to wonder if the prison and its much-needed jobs will ever become reality. Work on the 1,280-bed prison was completed last year and a warden has been hired. Officials had hoped to […]
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P&G hiring people with disabilities at Tambrands’ Auburn plant
AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Proctor & Gamble says its diversification efforts include hiring people with disabilities at its manufacturing plant in Auburn, Maine. The company has partnered with the Maine Bureau of Rehabilitation Services as it opens a customized packaging facility at the plant. It says initial hiring challenges at the new FlexiCenter include 30 […]
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EMMC job cuts will save money
BANGOR — The Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor is cutting jobs as a way to save money. Hospital President Deborah Carey Johnson wouldn’t say how many jobs are being cut. But the nurses union says 14 nursing jobs are being targeted. Some of the areas affected by the job cuts at the 400-bed hospital […]
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Jobs! After two years of downward trends, state and local numbers are starting to pick up
LEWISTON — Michelle Short had been looking for a job for two years. She had a full work history, including a decade in Lewiston-Auburn shoe mills and time in construction. It didn’t help. Thinking training and a career change might land her a job, she went to school and trained to become a certified nursing […]
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LePage not keen on renewable power subsidies
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address Saturday to tout his proposal to change the state’s renewable energy mandate, a plan critics say will increase dependence on fossil fuels. LePage’s original bill aimed to give electric consumers a choice to buy a “green power standard” offer as part of […]
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LePage: Jobs jobs needed to keep our gradates in Maine
AUGUSTA (AP) — With thousands of students graduating this month from Maine’s colleges and universities, Gov. Paul LePage says the state must create more jobs so more of those graduates stick around after receiving their degrees. In his weekly radio address Saturday, the governor said young men and women who go to college in Maine […]