ELLSWORTH — The Jackson Laboratory has increased its minimum wage to $15.75 an hour and will hire 300 new employees over the next year, according to a press release from Senior Public Relations Manager Sarah Laskowski on Tuesday. The move comes as the Bar Harbor-based organization, which made $400 million before expenses in 2017, continues …
ELLSWORTH — The Jackson Laboratory’s new chief operating officer and executive vice president, Catherine “Katy” Longley, has a message for the region: the lab is hiring and the jobs are good. “We still are in a rapid growth mode,” said Longley in an interview at the lab’s Bar Harbor campus. “We have good quality jobs, …
ELLSWORTH — With Fiberight’s Coastal Resources of Maine facility preparing to accept deliveries of waste next month, the Municipal Review Committee (MRC) has announced that longtime Executive Director Greg Lounder is stepping down next month to explore new career opportunities. “Twenty-five years of dedicated service will be difficult to replace,” said MRC Board President Chip …
TRENTON — Following an extensive nationwide search, the SPCA of Hancock County has hired a veteran animal welfare professional as its new executive director. Nichola Redmond, the current executive director of the Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society in Gloucester, Va., will begin her new position at the SPCA later this month. Redmond will oversee the operation of …
For 32 of the 35 years Mainely Vinyl has done business in Downeast Maine, Ed Bowden was on the road meeting customers and helping them with home improvement projects, siding, windows, doors, insulation, gutters, garage doors and decks. Bowden has retired. After an extensive search, Mainely Vinyl has hired Todd Wagstaff. Wagstaff grew up in …
ELLSWORTH — The media companies owned by Maine entrepreneur Reade Brower on announced on Jan. 10 the launch of Masthead Maine, a network that enables media buying across its news and lifestyle products. Advertising in all products of MaineToday Media, Sun Media Group, Alliance Media Group, Courier Publications, The Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander …
ELLSWORTH — Reade Brower of Rockland, the new owner of The Ellsworth American and the Mount Desert Islander, visited both newspapers Tuesday, introduced himself to staff and talked shop over lunch. Brower was accompanied by Lisa DeSisto, CEO of Maine Today Media, which publishes the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal and Morning …
BAR HARBOR — For some, the word “organoid” — a small collection of cells that behave like organs — might connote some far out idea, and until recently that would have been true. But scientists are now using this new tool to learn more about human development, disease and regenerative medicine. Organoids are miniature 3-D …
By Becky Pritchard, bpritchard@mdislander.com BAR HARBOR — Educators and business partners from across eastern Maine met Monday to brainstorm new ways to interest students and their families in the idea of college or other post-secondary education. The initiative, called the Future of Eastern Maine Council, met at Machias Savings Bank to plan an initiative to …
By Jack Sasner MOUNT DESERT—After 75 years in business, the Mount Desert Yacht Yard (MDYY) has announced major cutbacks to the operation. Most of the current boat storage and service customers received a letter in early July announcing they wouldn’t be able to store their boats there in the future. That includes nearly all of …
