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Neighborhood National Bank Awarded $125,000 State Grant to Support New National City Branch
Neighborhood National Bank Scott Andrews, President and CEO of Neighborhood National Bank Neighborhood National Bank, has been awarded a $125,000 grant from the California Investment and Innovation Program to support the its new full-service branch.
LOCAL GOV 250: Democracy at the Doorstep
In 2026, the United States will commemorate 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Anniversaries of this magnitude invite us to reflect on the ideals that shape our nation, but they also challenge us to examine how those ideals are lived today, in real communities, by real people, facing real constraints. For most Americans, democracy is experienced locally.
Hi-Line Industries - Coming Up, For Air
It is 25 years since the foundation of Hi-Line Industries, a manufacturer and the UK’s largest stockist of energy efficient air filters, absorption dryers and air treatment ancillaries. “Initially the company was myself and my partner,” says Steve Smith, Managing Director at Hi-Line Industries.
Mango Achieves U.S. Expansion Goals for 2024 & Plans More
In 2025, Mango plans to open more than twenty stores in the U.S., including its arrival in Seattle, Chicago and Las Vegas, among other locations. which will result in around 65 company owned stores open in total across the country by the end of 2025. Over the last few years, the company has created over 600 new jobs in the U.S. and by 2025, it plans to double its current workforce to more than 1,200 employees.
Chicken Cottage - Grilled to Perfection
Chicken Cottage has been a pioneer in the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry for over 30 years, serving a diverse range of customers with its unique offering of fried and grilled chicken—all Halal certified. “With roots in the UK, we’ve expanded globally, establishing ourselves as a brand that balances tradition with innovation.
3PBIOVIAN - Stronger Together
Since we last reported on Biovian, the Finnish one-stop-shop Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO) for biopharmaceuticals, the company has undergone in 2024 a transformational development – backed by their common shareholder, Keensight Capital, Biovian has joined forces with another leading CDMO, the Spanish company 3P Biopharmaceuticals, to form 3PBIOVIAN, a major pan-European CDMO delivering end-to-end services to biotech and pharma companies globally.
Elmya EPC - Business Focus
In 1966, two junior engineers founded a switchgear manufacturer that would later become a low voltage contractor. This business would expand across markets and cross continents, moving with technology and with its offering, whilst retaining its identity and the culture that made it a success. Eventually, the company those engineers founded became renewable energy specialists.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #384
Issue #384 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Margaret Ronald. Posted on Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 at 3:00 am.
Timely Care App Provides NEIU Students with Access to Free Mental Health Services
NEIU has provided access to TimelyCare, a mental health and well-being app available to all registered students at no cost. The app is being paid for by the President’s Strategic Fund for Student Retention Support. “Students are able to seek virtual support, care, and guidance through TimelyCare,” Dr. Miki Koyama, Interim Director for Student Counseling said.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #380
Issue #380 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe. Posted on Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 at 3:00 am.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #365
Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Adam R. Shannon and Eugenia Triantafyllou. Posted on Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 at 3:00 am.
County must plan now for sea-level rise
Skagit County faces impacts from sea level rise over the coming decades with risks to life, homes, infrastructure, agriculture and shoreline ecosystems. Yet the recent draft of the county's Shoreline Master Program ignores sea level rise. The SMP is the policies and plan under which the county manages its shorelines. Now is the time to begin planning for the impacts of the rising sea in Skagit County. Climate change-driven sea level rise is a well-documented fact.
Five key capabilities for health systems to meet growing consumer demand for self-service Original
Hospitals and health systems have significantly accelerated their technology roadmaps and advanced their digital strategies by leaps and bounds over the last few years. Just to make sure we have all not forgotten, it was only a few short years ago when provider directories looked more like the yellow pages than a modern 21st-century webpage. It shouldn’t be missed, however, that consumer demand for convenient, digital access and self-service has also increased dramatically over this period.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #321
Issue #321 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Tegan Moore and Marika Bailey. Posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 at 3:00 am.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #305
Issue #305 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Emma Törzs and Inegbenoise O. Osagie. Posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 at 3:00 am.
Out & About: Music festivals in Brunswick, New Gloucester
There are about 20 classical music festivals in Maine every summer, and they range from small one-weekend concert series to big multi-week affairs with multitudinous events. Two of these are happening in Brunswick and New Gloucester. I have attended both these fine festivals for about two decades, and plan to continue this year. By far the biggest in Maine is the Bowdoin International Music Festival, which runs from late June into early August.
Out & About: Theater companies at start, finish lines
Two stage musicals mark the alpha and omega of the seasonal offerings of two southern Maine theatrical companies. In the alpha department, “Sophisticated Ladies,” a jukebox musical based on the tunes and rhythms of Duke Ellington, opened the 2019 summer season at Maine State Music Theatre. On the omega side of the ledger, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” a new musical based on the famous novel by Victor Hugo, marks the finale of Lyric Music Theater’s 2018-2019 season.
Out & About: Bach Virtuosi Festival wraps with ‘1685’
The first of this summer’s classical music festivals opened with a splash this past Sunday, and it exits in spectacular fashion this coming Sunday. The fourth annual Bach Virtuosi Festival’s final offering will showcase three of the Baroque Era’s best and most influential composers. By coincidence, all three were born in the same year: 1685.
Out & About: Bach Virtuosi Festival opens summer music season
Bach Virtuosi Festival opens summer music season Memorial Day marked the unofficial beginning of Maine’s summer, and the pace of our state’s seasonal performing arts is accelerating. Last week the first straw hat theater opened, while this weekend the first of the summer classical music festivals gets underway in Portland. The Bach Virtuosi Festival, features top musicians from around the U.S. playing music written by and/or associated with 18th-century German composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Out & About: ‘Jersey Boys’ opens summer theater season
We’ve reached what I call the Janus point in the performing arts calendar. Janus was a two-faced Roman god. One visage looked back, while the other looked forward. That’s where southern Maine’s performing arts organizations stand in late May. On the looking-forward side, Ogunquit Playhouse is the first of Maine’s summer theaters to open, launching 2019 with a sensationally good professional production of “Jersey Boys,” one of modern Broadway’s biggest hits. It runs through June 15.
Out & About: Put ‘Calendar Girls’ on your calendar
The calendar of upcoming performing arts happenings has several excellent choices. Tops in my opinion is City Theater Associates’ stellar community production of “Calendar Girls,” a British comedy that pushes many of today’s cultural hot buttons. It runs through May 26 at the Biddeford Opera House. The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra wraps up its 2018-2019 season this weekend with concerts in Lewiston and Topsham.
Out & About: PSO finale, 'Finding Neverland' are top picks
Two of southern Maine’s top performing arts organizations check out soon for the 2018-2019 season. The Portland Symphony Orchestra, in the last two concerts of its maestro-less season, will exit with two performances under the baton of guest conductor Jeffrey Kahane, who will also play piano. Portland Ovations exits with two performances of “Finding Neverland,” the behind-the-scenes story of how British playwright James M.
Out & About: Oratorio Chorale ventures beyond concerts
The Midcoast-based Oratorio Chorale seems to be hyperactive this spring. On the heels of last weekend’s concerts by the organization’s all-female cohort, artistic director Emily Isaacson has another event coming up this weekend, and she’s going beyond the simple concert format. “What Binds Us Together: The Binding of Isaac Story in Music” is a multimedia presentation and panel discussion that involves her musicians and ventures into thorny theological issues.
Out & About: ‘Lucky Stiff’ is drop-dead funny
As tiny buds of green portend full-on spring leaf-out, it’s that time of year when many producers and presenters are wrapping up their fall-winter-spring seasons. Good Theater for one, is exiting with a bang; “Lucky Stiff,” the company’s final 2018-2019 production is a drop-dead funny musical comedy.
Out & About: Fantastic tales of times past
Tales of history and fantasy reign over this week’s top picks in the performing arts. Tops in my opinion is Portland Players’ truly inspired community production of “Camelot,” the 1960 Broadway musical version of the ancient British tales of King Arthur. This past weekend in Falmouth, Maine State Ballet opened its superb production of “Cinderella,” the terspsichorean take on the popular fairy tale from the Middle Ages.
Out & About: Music for a Maine spring
Astronomically speaking, we’re entering springtime, although we Mainers don’t expect flowers or leaves for a few more weeks. But we don’t have to wait for music to spring forth; there’s plenty coming up real soon. The Portland Symphony Orchestra unofficially celebrates Women’s History Month with its next Tuesday concert. Three women will be highlighted: guest maestro Ruth Reinhardt, guest pianist Diane Walsh and 19th-century classical composer Clara Schumann.
Out & About: PSO Pops! serves up Hot Sardines
A symphony orchestra, a jazz combo, a blues band and a string quartet comprise the musical offerings coming up soon in southern Maine. The biggest show by all measures will be the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s pair of Pops! programs this weekend, which will feature the Hot Sardines, a New York jazz combo. James Montgomery’s Boston-based blues band will take the stage in Portland this Saturday.
Out & About: Stunning production of new drama in Portland
Theatrical events dominate this week’s top choices among the performing arts, with one new drama and a classic favorite musical on offer. Top billing in my opinion goes to Good Theater’s stunning production of “A Doll’s House Part 2,” which recently garnered eight Tony Award nominations and has just been released to local companies. It’s a re-imagined sequel to the famous Henrik Ibsen play from more than a century ago.
Out & About: A guitar god in Portland
Three acts top this week’s picks of the tix, and by coincidence, all three are booked into Portland’s best small music venue, One Longfellow Square. Two are from Boston and one is from Spain. Duke Robillard, the irrepressible guitar god and bluesman from Boston, will be featured on Friday. Robillard has been a fixture on The Hub’s music scene for decades, and he’s a frequent visitor to the Port City.
Out & About: New musical showcase debuts Sunday
We all know there’s an abundance of creativity in southern Maine, but that point will be underscored by a factor of nine this Sunday, when “Hear, Here” debuts in Portland. Nine different acts with an astonishing breadth and variety will be showcased. One of Portland’s newest Valentine’s traditions, the annual concert by pianist Laura Kargul and violinist Ron Lantz, is also scheduled for Sunday. Romantic music is always featured.
Out & About: 3 to see in southern Maine
Theatrical happenings rule southern Maine’s performing arts calendar this week, with three splendid shows beckoning. A local production of the longest-running play in history opened last weekend at Lyric Music Theater in South Portland. Don’t miss this superior community production of “The Mousetrap.” Many decades of musical theater provide the unifying theme for this weekend’s pair of Pops! concerts by the Portland Symphony Orchestra.
Out & About: ‘Human Error’ just perfect
The halfway point of winter occurs this weekend, and a few hot choices for theater and music beckon. At The Public Theatre of Lewiston-Auburn, “Human Error” is a comedy that threads a delicate line between satire and think piece, between social commentary and goofball farce. Voctave, an a cappella singing group from central Florida, is on a northern New England tour. The 11-member ensemble stops in the Port City on Saturday, part of Portland Ovations’ 2018-2019 season.
Out & About: Portland Symphony’s new commission: ‘The Telling Rooms’
Eckart Preu, the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s new music director, will make his first appearance this weekend, leading a program that includes a newly commissioned work co-produced with a Portland literary arts organization. Just in case you missed it the first time – a few millennium ago – God reprises (and rethinks) her work on the Creation and the Ten Commandments through Feb. 10 at Portland’s Good Theater. Sky is blue and grass is green?
Out & About: Music, dance for midwinter
The Christmas break and early January doldrums are over for southern Maine’s arts producers, performers and presenters. The result is a spate of dates on the calendar with a variety of concerts, plus an exciting dance showcase coming to brighten these dark midwinter days. “Women Rock” is the title of the Portland Symphony’s next Pops! program, which features music written and/or performed by women who were influential in the rock genre.
Out & About: Familiar faces, new faces for Christmas
Christmas is only two weeks away, and the last of the seasonal concerts are coming up fast. This year’s menu is pretty much the same as every year, with a few significant twists. Portland Symphony Orchestra’s annual “Magic of Christmas” concerts continue with a familiar face – at least to some – on the podium. Bruce Hangen, who inaugurated “Magic” nearly 40 years ago, will return as guest maestro for the dozen 2018 performances, beginning this Friday.
Out & About: Multiple angles on Christmas spirit
The Christmas spirit suffuses the arts and entertainment calendar as we move into mid-December. This week’s top shows employ three very different Christmas angles. Lyric Music Theater opened a radiant production of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” last weekend in South Portland. This is the Broadway remake of the celebrated Hollywood blockbuster from 1954, and it’s totally awash with wonderful tunes and warm feelings.
Out & About: Vocal ensembles celebrate Christmas
With Thanksgiving behind us, it’s time for jingle bells and the Christmas countdown in the performing arts. This week’s picks of the tix include two events with Christmas themes plus two that don’t. My favorite annual Christmas concert is performed the first weekend in December of each year by ChoralArt. “Christmas in the Cathedral” is profoundly moving, and it’s an absolute must-not-miss in my book. Four performances are slated for Saturday and Sunday in Portland.
Out & About: 'Nutcracker' leads Christmas-season A&E
The month-long lead-up to Christmas in Southern Maine’s performing arts community begins this weekend, as always led by Maine State Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker,” which opens Friday and continues through Dec. 9 in Portland. Continuing with Christmas, the University of Southern Maine School of Music’s annual “Joyous Sounds for a Festive Season” concert takes place Nov. 27 in Portland.
Out & About: Quirky characters, lots of laughs
Two interesting pieces of stagecraft promise some quirky characters and lots of laughs. Numbers-wise, the biggest of the two will be the national tour of “Elf: The Broadway Musical,” which swings by Merrill Auditorium for three performances this weekend under the aegis of Portland Ovations. Quintessential quirky, Maine style: That’s a good description of Homer, an idiosyncratic lobsterman who is the title character of a new and wildly funny romantic comedy by Maine playwright Karmo Sanders.
Out & About: Jeffrey Kahane to star at piano, podium in Portland
With 5 p.m. darkness now the rule, the southern Maine arts community is hunkering in for a long fall-winter-spring season. Most performers, producers and presenters have already launched their 2018-2019 seasons, and many are now on their second offerings. The Portland Symphony Orchestra will offer its second concert in the Tuesday Classical series on Nov. 13, marked by a starring role for guest maestro Jeffrey Kahane, who is known as both a virtuoso pianist as well as a conductor.
Out & About: Music to maintain that winning feeling
With most of Maine celebrating the Boston Red Sox, the heroics of pitcher David Price, World Series MVP Steve Pearce and endless repeats of the Dropkick Murphys’ “Tessie,” this coming weekend offers four musical programs to maintain that winning feeling. Portland Symphony Orchestra opens its 2018-2019 Pops! season this weekend with a concert based on the music of Frank Sinatra. The DaPonte String Quartet will open its 2018-2019 season Nov.
Out and About: Music festival and romantic comedy top picks
There’s no excuse for staying home this weekend, as a number of excellent choices are offered for aficionados of music and theater. On the musical end of things, the Portland Conservatory of Music has three days of concerts, master classes and educational programming running Friday through Sunday. It’s the Seventh Annual Portland Early Music Festival, curated by professor Timothy Burris.
Out & About: ‘Rock of Ages’ to rock Portland
Hold on to your seats and tighten your safety belts; it’s going to be a wild ride. “Rock of Ages,” the raucous jukebox musical that recalls the sounds of the 1980s is going on national tour, and it stops in Portland this weekend. Two terrific pianists will appear this Friday in different venues. Most familiar to Mainers will be Laura Kargul, the longtime professor of classical piano at the University of Southern Maine School of Music.
Out & About: Powerful, stunning drama at Good Theater
The season’s much-anticipated, much-talked-about Portland premiere is here. Good Theater’s current production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” which won five Tony Awards, is a powerful, stunning drama that shouldn’t be missed. The Portland Symphony Orchestra will launch its Tuesday Classical Series on Oct. 16, with a program headlined by Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. Attendees can expect a homecoming feeling; the guest maestro will be Bruce Hangen.
Out & About: Wave the flag for ‘Swingtime Canteen’
As the 2018-2019 performing arts season barrels into its second month, let’s note that two of this week’s top picks happen south of the Port City. Tops in my opinion is the joyously melodic and energetic production of “Swingtime Canteen,” a jukebox musical running through Sunday at City Theater of Biddeford. Set in World War II, “Swingtime Canteen” is a patriotic dive into some of the best pop tunes of that era.
Out & About: Seasonal kickoffs in the arts
Football season kicked off a few weeks ago, and several of southern Maine’s performing arts producers, performers and presenters are doing likewise this week. Portland Players kicked off their 88th season of community theater in South Portland last weekend with a sensationally good production of one of the funniest musicals ever written: “Little Shop of Horrors.” Portland Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 2018-2019 season this Sunday with guest maestro Jeffrey Kahane on the podium.
Out & About: ‘Jersey Boys’ is big man in town
The leaves are beginning to turn, and schoolchildren and college students have already returned to their classrooms. And it’s also the time when southern Maine arts producers, performers and presenters return from their summer vacations. Two big Broadway musicals dominate this week’s pick of the tickets. Hottest of all is “Jersey Boys,” the 2005 show that is based on Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, one of the top-selling pop groups of the 1960s and 1970s.
Out & About: Bluegrass festival in Brunswick top ticket
Labor Day weekend has arrived, and with it the finale of Maine’s short summer season of performing arts. And as always, there’s no doubt where I’ll be heading. The annual Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival, an anchor-bookend event, is the top ticket, drawing thousands from southern Maine and all over the U.S. and Canada to the seaside venue in Brunswick. The inaugural Nazera Burundian Music Festival will be staged in Portland this weekend.
Out and About: ‘Nunsense’ wraps up MSMT season in Portland
The summer season is rapidly drawing to a close, as the roadside goldenrods and Queen Anne’s lace attest. Maine State Music Theatre wraps up its 2018 season with a wonderfully funny production of Dan Goggin’s “Nunsense,” a whimsical and tuneful musical comedy that’s set in a New Jersey convent. Operatic music with Broadway showmanship is the name of the game in Arundel this Saturday, when Vinegar Hill Music Theatre presents Bravo Amici, an internationally touring vocal ensemble.
Out & About: It’s raining in Brunswick, snowing in Ogunquit
Never mind the dry summer and the widely scattered showers. It’s raining buckets every day in Brunswick, where Maine State Music Theatre wraps up its 2018 season with “Singin’ in the Rain.” And it’s snowing a few miles down the coast, where Ogunquit Playhouse continues its 2018 season with “Grumpy Old Men,” a warm-hearted musical that’s set in wintertime Minnesota. The summer-long Ocean Park Music Festival wraps up this Sunday evening with the Downeasters Chorus of Yarmouth.
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