FALMOUTH — Brian P. Cohenour, 57, a resident of Falmouth, passed away unexpectedly Monday, June 18, at his home. He was born May 17, 1961, in Beloit, Wis., the son of Louis Cohenour and Geraldine (Noel-Wardwell) Cohenour. He was a graduate of Beloit Memorial High School. Following graduation he proudly served in the U.S. Air Force. […]
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Procter & Gamble invests another $4.6 million in Tambrands
AUBURN — Procter & Gamble just keeps investing. Tambrands, the factory behind the company’s popular Pearl tampons, is wrapping up two construction projects that bring P&G’s total local investment to more than $10 million in the past 2½ years. Rick Malinowski, the plant’s supply network operations manager, said a building expansion earlier this year triggered […]
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$6.2 million expansion at Auburn Tambrands underway
AUBURN — Tambrands is in the midst of a $6.2 million expansion driven by the company’s popular Pearl tampons. “It’ll give us space for up to two more production lines,” said Rick Malinowski, Tambrands’ supply network operations leader. Ground broke on the new 33,212-square-foot addition to its Hotel Road plant last fall and is expected […]
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Theresa J. Evrard
1936 – 2015 AUBURN — Theresa J. Evrard, 79, formerly of 31 Cote St., Lewiston, and a resident of Clover Manor in Auburn for the past year, died Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice in Auburn, surrounded by her loving family. Born in Lewiston on April 13, 1936, […]
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Lorraine Gauthier-Dube
1937 – 2015 AUBURN — Lorraine Gauthier-Dube, 78, of Lewiston passed away in Auburn on Friday, Oct. 16. She was born in Lewiston on Aug. 22, 1937, to parents Clifford and Diana Soucy. She enjoyed dancing, knitting, ceramics and painting. Lorraine retired from Tambrands after 26 years. Last August, Lorraine married her longtime companion, Don, […]
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Panel: Tambrands likely guilty of age discrimination
AUGUSTA — An East Dixfield man likely suffered age discrimination when an Auburn company required him to share his high school graduation date as part of his application for employment, the Maine Human Rights Commission decided this week. Allen Ackley was 59 year old in 2013 when he applied for a job as a plant […]
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State investigator: Auburn company shouldn’t have asked age of applicant from East Dixfield
An investigator for a state agency found that an Auburn manufacturing company discriminated against an East Dixfield man by requiring him to reveal his age on an employment form. In January 2013, Allen Ackley applied for a job as a plant technician at Tambrands Inc., which manufactures and sells consumer hygiene products internationally. The company […]
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Maine business leaders: State needs to amp up efforts, attract 65,000 workers by 2020
AUBURN — Repeatedly calling it ambitious but essential, business leaders unveiled a report Tuesday morning showing how they hope to lure 65,000 more workers into Maine jobs by 2020. If nothing is done, the state is on track to lose 20,000 workers by the end of the decade, said Dana Connors, president of the Maine […]