WATERVILLE The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce’s Business to Business Showcase has been scheduled for noon to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 24, at Colby’s Harold
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Unity College president discusses innovation, leadership in chamber talk
Melik Peter Khoury discusses his experiences, especially during COVID-19 pandemic, with audience at gathering in Waterville.
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WATERVILLE Over the past 18 months, Melik Peter Khoury, the president and CEO of Unity College, has faced challenging decisions.
Not only has the coronavirus pandemic upended the world, but the college itself has faced a transformation.
“How can you be innovative if you’re doing things people have already done?” Khoury asked the audience rhetorically Thursday during an appearance at a leadership luncheon cohosted by the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce and KV Connect at Amici’s Cucina, an Italian restaurant in downtown Waterville.
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SKOWHEGAN The semiregular 80-hour weeks at the Skowhegan Tire Center feel especially long during the coronavirus pandemic.
While the company tries to stay afloat offering extended hours during storms, for instance the business was thrown a potential curveball earlier this week. Should the Skowhegan Tire Center have to pay state income taxes on the $110,400 loan it received from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, those long weeks may be colder than ever.
“It would mean probably closing the doors,” said Diana Savage, owner of Skowhegan Tire. “We’re having a rough enough time making it through COVID to have any more expenses.”
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Thorn Dickinson, CEO and president of NECEC Transmission LLC and vice president of business development at Avangrid, speaks with Kim Lindlof, Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce president and CEO and executive director of the Central Maine Growth Council, at the Chamber’s business breakfast Thursday at the Waterville Country Club.
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OAKLAND Pending a permit from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, construction on the New England Clean Energy Connect will start early next month, the head of the NECEC Transmission company told members of the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce at their October Business Breakfast on Thursday.