Private employers that employ the most workers: Androscoggin County: 1. Central Maine Healthcare; between 2,000 and 2,500 employees 2. T.D. Bank, 1,501 to 2,000 3. St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, 1,000 to 1,500 4. Walmart/Sam’s Club, 1,000 to 1,500 5. L.L. Bean, 501 to 1,000 6. Bates College, 501 to 1,000 7. John F. Murphy […]
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No trash, recyclables pickup in Jay on Labor Day
JAY — There will be no pickup of trash or recyclables on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1. People need to either hold on to their trash and recyclables for the next week’s pickup or take them to the town’s transfer station, Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere said.
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Police: Labor Day travel weekend safest in three years, with one fatality
AUGUSTA — One of the summer’s busiest travel weekends proved to be the safest in three years, according to state police. Only one person was killed on Maine highways during Labor Day weekend, marking the safest travel holiday weekend since 2010, according to Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland. The 2013 figures compare to […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Campers undaunted by wet Labor Day
Peals of thunder, torrential downpours and flash flooding may have dampened Maine this Labor Day weekend, but not the spirits of those determined to enjoy summer’s last hurrah. According to Tom Hawley of the National Weather Service in Gray, radar indicated that up to 6 inches of rain fell across parts of New Hampshire and […]
Posted inOur View
Today’s holiday honoring workers is well-earned
If you are a working man — or a working woman — today we pay tribute to you. As a nation, we depend on workers to pave our streets, grow and ship our food, stitch our clothes, build our electronics, repair our cars, clean our schools, transport the goods we consume, build our homes, care […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
With Labor Day parade, Newtown reflects ‘how we’re healing’
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Ten thousand decisions go into creating a big, boisterous parade. No one knows that better than Robin Buchanan, who for years has juggled the lineup at the Labor Day parade that has jubilantly closed out every Newtown summer for five decades. But never before had this happened: Calls and emails from […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Labor Day parade to honor veterans
BUCKFIELD — The Community Day Committee is calling for all veterans to join in the Labor Day Parade on Monday. The theme this year is “Honoring Our Veterans.” The parade starts at 10 a.m. Sept. 2 at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School and end at the Municipal Center. Lineup starts at 9 a.m. Veterans may march […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
River Views: Labor Day brings back memories of fair week
“Always Labor Day Weekend” was the Maine State Fair slogan when I was growing up. Those days may be gone, but to anyone who experienced its annual six days of excitement, along with a fair share of education, there were many lasting memories. I researched several years in which the fairgrounds next to the railroad […]