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Donations range from 100 meals per week over the next two months to supermarket gift cards. The mission is to help care for essential workers in difficult circumstances.
Consumers these days are well familiar with supply-chain shortages. To find out how Maine businesses are adapting to them, Mainebiz reached out to a dozen businesses, ranging from a boatyard to a chocolate maker to a retail car-servicing chain.
Read Article Maine’s highest court ruled Tuesday that Portland’s voter-approved hazard wage mandate is constitutional, but the provision that boosts pay during emergencies such as the pandemic does not take effect until next year. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling upholds a lower court decision, which was appealed by the Portland Community Regional Chamber of Commerce and several local businesses. It could have an immediate impact on the wages of workers who have been receiving hazard pay since the ordinance was adopted by voters last year in the midst of the pandemic. The prov...
Districts include Lewiston Public Schools, SAD 58 and RSU 12.
The bicentennial parade that will celebrate 200 years of Maine statehood will finally take place in August after a long delay caused by the pandemic.