CashStar adds 6 restaurant chains to client list

The Portland-based company offers online services for purchasing digital gift cards.

Maine firms chosen to build Oxford casino

The developer chooses Stillwater-based Sargent Corp. to be site contractor and Pittsfield-based Cianbro to be the construction manager.

Samoset renovations near completion

The $2 million project adds a seaside spa and Italian restaurant and upgrades 28 rooms.

The Bottom Line: Running hard

At New Balance it takes 70 minutes to make a shoe, and 7,700 pairs of shoes are made daily. Are you tired yet?

‘Manufacturing is in my blood’

NORRIDGEWOCK – Raye Wentworth manages one of the last athletic shoe manufacturing plants in the country. She’s in charge of the New Balance Norridgewock factory, where workers can turn out 7,700 pairs of shoes daily. And though she hasn’t always worked in production, she said a 2004 job change set her on a path that […]

Explanation sought for military shoe purchases

Maine’s senators want to know why soldiers’ athletic shoes don’t have to be U.S.-made.

Feature Obituary: Raymond Seger, 90, ‘kind, generous’ paperworker, gardener

PORTLAND – The daughters of longtime Portland resident Raymond Seger feel fortunate their father met Lucien Mathieu. In the last few months, Seger and Mathieu became fast friends. They were roommates at Portland’s Barron Center, an assisted-living facility. He had a friend when he needed one the most, said Seger’s daughter Shirley Seger. Seger died […]

Sebago Brewing to move soon

PORTLAND – Starting Sunday, Sebago Brewing Co. will not pour any beers in Portland for about a week. The Gorham-based craft brewery and restaurant operator will close its Middle Street pub on Sunday as it moves to a new space. Sebago Brewing will reopen Friday on the bottom floor of a new six-story building on […]

CashStar: Economic bright spot

PORTLAND – David Douglas Stone’s eyes light up when he discusses the growth of his Portland-based tech company CashStar Inc.

“We are catching this technology wave,” said the 54-year-old CEO while standing in a conference room at CashStar’s Portland headquarters. “There is only one direction (we) can go.”

Since founded in late 2008, CashStar, which operates digital gift card programs for major retailers, has grown to 50 staffers and landed national retail clients. In the next two years, Stone plans to triple CashStar’s workforce to meet the surging growth of the digital gift card industry.

Navy awards $30 million to Bath Iron Works

The money will allow the shipyard to proceed with work on DDG-1001 Zumwalt-class destroyer.