Panel: High-tech talent needed in Maine

The state’s economy hinges on producing workers with high-tech skills, say leading business people.

Cape E. exec to head Time Warner in region

Paul Schonewolf joined the company in 1994.

Bangor Savings opens another branch in Portland

The North Deering office is the third of four new Portland-area branches in a $4 million expansion.

Fishing industry may gaina friend in Obama administration

PORTLAND — President Obama’s choice for a new chief of staff may bode well for New England’s groundfishing industry, which some say lost jobs and revenue after a new management plan was implemented last spring.

William Daley, named Thursday by Obama, has a history of working with the fishing industry and with lawmakers.

In the late 1990s, when he was secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, parent agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Daley eased commercial scallop-fishing restrictions, said Brian Rothschild, professor of fisheries and oceanography at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

Third generation of Bennetts keeps the business flowing

‘We absolutely get at each other’s throats,’ says President William Bennett of working with his siblings. But they always work things out.

The Bottom Line: Maine in a bottle

Oakhurst Dairy homogenizes its marketing message: It’s local milk

Simpson lawyer answers critics

F. Lee Bailey: “So many people said, ‘You are the reason he got off.’ It is very frustrating, a terribly raw deal. … It is the most sustained assault on my credibility that I have ever experienced. Why — if I knew he was guilty — why go around taking this abuse?”

Troops get Saco send-off

Eighteen Army Reserve soldiers will deploy Wednesday for Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri for the next year.

Fairchild laying off 120 workers in South Portland

The cuts will affect workers at all levels at the company’s plant in South Portland, which now has 500 employees.

Fairchild to cut 120 staffers in South Portland

A spokeswoman says the decision to cut staff was made by local managers after an evaluation of the plant’s expected 2011 output.