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Paul Michaud of Auburn talks to his wife, Ashley, while dining outside at Sonder & Dram in Lewiston last week as server Melanie Roy heads to another table of patrons with menus.
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LEWISTON The City Council on Tuesday extended rules that encourage outdoor dining in hopes of giving restaurants more options heading into an uncertain winter.
The unanimous vote keeps in place a previously approved resolution that authorizes city staff to work with businesses to expand operations when needed, including onto municipal rights of way, and public or private open spaces and parking areas.
The council initially approved the resolution in May, which also waives fees for park use and sidewalk and street occupancy.
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LEWISTON A Lewiston staffing agency that would specialize in matching immigrants with open jobs and a Topsham entrepreneur whose website would introduce foodies to the local food and beverage scene wherever they travel in Maine are moving on to the Top Gun statewide finals.
They’ll face six other regional finalists all pitching-off on May 26 for the $25,000 grand prize from Maine Technology Institute.
“I would like to point out LA had the Top Gun winner for the state last year, so we’re pretty excited about the entrepreneurial supports and pathways in the region,” Shanna Cox, president of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, said Thursday as the fifth annual Top Gun LA pitch-off got underway.
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Bettyann Sheats
AUGUSTA The Finance Authority of Maine recently welcomed Bettyann Sheats of Auburn to its board of directors.
She was nominated by Gov. Janet Mills in late January and confirmed by the Legislature in late February.
Sheats owns a small specialty construction business. She previously served two terms in the Maine House of Representatives, where she served on the Transportation Committee. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she majored in aeronautical engineering, Sheats served her nation in the United States Army, where she achieved the rank of captain and served as a helicopter pilot.
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LEWISTON Twenty-two Maine teams applied for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Working Communities Challenge with ideas to lift up their local economies.
A Twin Cities effort aimed at “marginalized racial, income and social groups” has been picked as one of eight moving on to the next round.
“The core team of the L/A Working Communities Challenge is representative of a wide range of backgrounds, life experiences, professional expertise and is largely led by BIPOC (Black, indigenous and people of color) individuals,” said Safiya Khalid, a Lewiston city councilor and one of the effort’s leaders. “These folks have wide understanding of issues in the communities and will be a vocal advocate on this work.”