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Small business has suffered greatly during the COVID pandemic. Illness of employees and ordered closings have caused great stress and endangered the livelihoods of many.

EPCOR receives grant to build reclaimed water pipeline PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Water Resources has awarded EPCOR USA a $250,000 grant to help build a new reclaimed water pipeline for the benefit of San Tan (formerly Johnson Utilities) customers, agricultural water users, and the San Tan Valley region. This supports water management goals in the Phoenix Active Management Area by reducing demand for groundwater pumping. Under the terms of the Lower Colorado Basin Drought Continge...

S.E.A. grants available for watershed studies by local students Sat, 02/06/2021 - 4:30pm John Dietter’s Camden-Rockport Middle School 7th grade science class. (Photo courtesy Stewardship Education Alliance) CAMDEN — Students thrive on discovery. And it’s through some of those discoveries that local elementary, middle and high school students are today preparing for a future filled with possibilities and opportunities. With support of the Stewardship Education Alliance (S.E.A.)...

FAIRMONT — Summit Financial Networks recently expanded by adding a new financial advisor. Financial advisor Rachel Rae Dyer has joined the team with an eye toward the future to generationally care for customers by providing longevity, a consistent level of service and expertise, and improvement regarding technology choices and communication. “We are excited about the future and the continued growth of the company,” said J. Phillip Burton, senior advisor, at Summit Financial Netwo...

A bit odd (and thoughtless amid social distancing), the series has more cooked-up situations than the “Real Housewives” franchise.

When will North Carolina’s economy return to normal, or at least to a “new normal”? Unfortunately, that destination is many months away, if not years. Still, we’ll know we’re making progress when we can see the most damaging events of 2020 only in our rearview mirrors. For example, entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers won’t return to “normal” economic activity until the worst excesses of our radicalized politics are a bad memory instead of an immediate...

SUSAN JOHNS Sun, 02/07/2021 - 8:00am The panel working on Wiscasset’s next decade of goals regrouped Thursday night, Feb. 4. The comprehensive plan committee got a new chair and some new help, and members renewed their plans for a town-wide survey. It might get more responses than it would have in last year’s political season, member Jason Putnam said. “People were really fatigued with that sort of thing. And now that we’re into a new year ... people might be more willing to...

Private school vouchers to thousands of families at issue.

I want to take time out to commend David House Jewelry, your local mom-and-pop jeweler.

Jessie Benson gave up a career in medicine to open a baking business. Now she runs Buffalo Mountain Bakery from a kitchen with a view.