As federal unemployment benefits — the added assistance established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — ended Sept. 5, local businesses, especially those in the hospitality industry, are reflecting on the impact those benefits had on the workforce.
“The lack of involvement from the nursing home is a huge problem,” said Bette Kral of Deer Isle. “It seems like their end result is, ‘It doesn’t matter.’ They’ve decided it’s closing. My mother was there. My mother died there in December, so this is close to home for me. They’re not allowing people to speak. They aren’t speaking. I know I’m not alone in that thinking.”
“Your success is really a success for the city of Ellsworth.”
Rebecca Palmer has been hired as the new executive director of Downeast Community Partners, the agency’s board of directors announced Sept. 17.
“People are just really excited to have something local,” she said. She described her customer demographic as women ages 25 to 55. She stocks her shop with items that are “trendy, modern, simple.”
ELLSWORTH — The Union River Center for Innovation, a facility focused on the growth and development of startup and small businesses in Maine, will graduate the first startup company from its business incubator program this month. The Genotyping Center of America will graduate during a celebration at the center on Sept. 16. The center was …
ELLSWORTH — The Jackson Lab gave its annual report to city councilors on Aug. 16, but unlike past years the figures, data and anecdotes were under a pandemic shadow. Still, the news that Chief Operating Officer Katy Longley and Michael McKernan, director of governance and community relations for Maine, related was positive for the city. …
With one denied abatement waiting for a State Board of Property Tax Review decision, Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust has filed a second request to pay lower property tax on the Ellsworth Walmart for fiscal year 2021.
The Municipal Review Committee (MRC) announced Aug. 13 that an exclusive agreement with Delta Thermo Energy (DTE) to purchase a solid waste plant in Hampden has ended, after DTE missed several deadlines to provide financial documents. DTE was chosen from seven potential buyers of the plant on Jan. 19.
“It’s been full-tilt boogie since the doors opened in May.”
For his High Tide Holistics line of CBD products, Runnells sources organic hemp and uses a CO2 extracting process to isolate the CBD.
“We understand that our greatest resource is our people. And we work every day to make sure that they are taken care of here at JAX,” Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Catherine “Katy” Longley said. “This includes staying ahead of the market with respect to compensation, generous health, retirement and benefit packages.”
