We’re driving through the Kennebec River towns north of Merrymeeting Bay, looking for fishing camps. Catching a bucket of smelt is our goal. But the frozen surfaces are thinner than usual this year, where there’s ice at all...[t]hin, silvery-pink fish often not much longer than an outstretched hand, rainbow smelt are known to live primarily in saltwater bays, but spawn in fresh water--famously, under the ice of the Kennebec River.John C.L. Morgan
Market Fresh's owner, Stephen Goodrich, said the- John C.L. Morgan
company's 20 employees were notified last week that Saturday will be their last
day of work. Goodrich said his sales staff has been referring customers to a
competitor, Native Maine Produce and Specialty Foods in Westbrook.
The event celebrated a major expansion for Legacy- John C.L. Morgan
Publishing, which already has one 10,000-square-foot office on Speirs Street.
Now the company, a call center that produces multimedia personal development
products for families, has leased another 10,000-square-foot building on
Larrabee Road.
What do you have to make to be able to afford to- John C.L. Morgan
live in Maine? If you look at the basic expenses, the whole kit and caboodle,
including food, rent, utilities, phone, health care, transportation, child care,
clothing, personal care, household goods, taxes, etc., what’s the end cost? A
new report out from the Maine Department of Labor tells us that.
Jason Snyder's plan for a new sports and concert arena ran into a skeptical- John C.L. Morgan
audience Wednesday: the Cumberland County Civic Center's trustees, who manage
the arena in downtown Portland. Snyder outlined his vision for an arena, with
6,800 seats for hockey and 8,000 for concerts, on property he owns along the
Portland-Westbrook city line, adjacent to Interstate 95. He said it would cost
about $85 million, with 5 to 20 percent privately funded and the rest coming
from taxpayers.His plan calls for $30million--all public money--to turn the
Civic Center into a convention center.
A developer has proposed building an 8,000-seat sports and entertainment arena- John C.L. Morgan
on one of two sites he owns near the Maine Turnpike in Portland and Westbrook.
Jason Snyder wants to build the arena in conjunction with his proposed
Stroudwater Place, a $300 million, 1.6 million-square-foot retail and commercial
development in Westbrook. He has also proposed to convert the Cumberland County
Civic Center in Portland into a convention center, and asked the Portland
Pirates to be the flagship tenant of the new arena.
There are 10 lobster boat races this season, in Boothbay Harbor, Rockland,
Jonesport-Beals Island, Searsport, Stonington, Friendship, Harpswell, Winter
Harbor, Pemaquid and Portland. Last week, the racing association announced it
had signed an agreement with a Portland marketing company, Aura360, to produce a
television series based on the races. The company had two video crews on hand in
Rockland to record footage that it intends to turn into a pilot that it can
pitch to television networks, said Aura360 spokeswoman Lauren St. Clair. The
idea is to create a series similar to the hit cable TV show "Deadliest Catch,"
which focuses on fishermen aboard Alaska's crab-fishing boats, she said.
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Baldacci invited Mayor Colleen Hilton and several- John C.L. Morgan
other state and city officials to the State House on Friday to discuss the
situation. His office said the meeting came after the governor discussed the
expansion plan with the head of Idexx. The governor doesn't recall whether he or
the Idexx executive suggested the meeting, said David Farmer, Baldacci's
spokesman. Jonathan W. Ayers, president and chief executive officer of Idexx,
did not return a call seeking comment Tuesday, but another Idexx official said
the company didn't request the meeting.
Vaughn Chase was milking his cows Monday afternoon, listening to Rush LimbaughYou can read Limbaugh's full remarks here.
on the radio, when he heard his name resonate through the barn. The cows may
have been the only witnesses to the shocked look on the Aroostook County
farmer’s face when he heard the Voice of the Right accuse him of scheming to
pervert capitalism. There is more to the story than the conservative commentator
would have listeners believe.
The milk is produced by 10 Maine family organic dairy farms in Washington,- John C.L. Morgan
Aroostook, Penobscot and Kennebec counties. It's trucked to Smiling Hill Dairy
in Westbrook for processing, then distributed by Oakhurst Dairy of Portland and
Crown O'Maone Organic Co-op in Gardiner.
With all the hoopla surrounding the opening of the[snip]
new, $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium, most media have overlooked one irony: as fans
stream through the massive gates, they walk right by Deer Isle granite, quarried
by die-hard Red Sox fans.
The granite actually came from New England Stone's- John C.L. Morgan
Crotch Island quarry, the last major island quarrying operation in Maine. At a
time when other island quarries are silent, Crotch Island (located off the
southern tip of Deer Isle) produces between 55,000 and 75,000 cubic feet of
granite per year, according to foreman Danny Hypes. "Deer Isle granite is
everywhere," he said.
"It's not good for business, it's not good for the- John C.L. Morgan
state," says Andy Charles, owner of the Westbrook-based Haven's Candies.
Charles was at an event organized by the Maine Merchants Association.
Under current law, if Charles' 25 workers wanted to form a union, he could
demand that they vote by secret-ballot. But, under the Employee Free
Choice Act, workers could unionize as long as a majority of them filled out
cards in favor of the move--hence the use of the phrase "card check" by the
bill's critics.
