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Rome wants to leave the group running an Oakland business park. But can they? Rome would be the first of the 24 towns in the Kennebec Regional Development Authority to withdraw, but an attorney familiar with the legislation does not think it's possible. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel Many people in Rome want to get out of a two-decade-old agreement that helped establish a regional business park in Oakland, but others connected to the organization running the park say the town can’t leave. The town of Rome is making a push to be the first of the 24 member municipalities to withdraw fro...

Washington state names its first Native American poet laureate A member of the Lummi Nation, Bellingham writer Rena Priest will bring attention to local poetry, climate change and the loss of vital natural resources. by On the first day of National Poetry Month, Bellingham-based Rena Priest is named the new Washington State Poet Laureate. She'll be a statewide ambassador for poetry during a two-year term. (Hillary Cagey) After years of entering poetry contests and submitting to literary journals, Rena Priest had developed a habit: She would slip a copy of a New Yorker cartoon into the ...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Oakland-based accounting firm One River CPAs has acquired an Augusta firm, Gibson LeClair LLC,  and is looking to continue growth. One River Director Jamie Boulette wouldn’t disclose terms of the deal Tuesday, but told Mainebiz the firm has retained all 11 members of Gibson LeClair, including principals Jeanne Gibson and Steve LeClair. Both now serve as directors, and One River now has a staff of 31. One River had 2019 revenues of $2.9 million, ranking the firm No. 11 in the state, according to the 2021 Mainebiz Book of Lists. Boulette projects the annual revenues of the combined firm to b...