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Despite pandemic challenges, Thomas College’s 2020 grads employed and making impact in central Maine
Of Thomas College s 238 graduates in the Class of 2020, 88% are employed despite a changing job market.
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Paige Costa, a 2020 graduate of Thomas College, is the co-owner and co-founder of North Star Apothecary in Fairfield. Costa was serving medicinal marijuana patients at the business recently.
Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Less than a month after graduating from Thomas College last May, Paige Costa opened her first retail storefront.
Costa, 21, is the co-founder and managing partner at North Star Apothecary, a small-batch, artisanal medical cannabis dispensary on U.S. Route 201 in Fairfield. The brightly lit 400-square-foot space is the first retail lens of her family’s North Star Farm.