September 17, 2013
L.L.Bean in Freeport had its best spring sales since 2008. Sales were increased 3 percent, including online, catalog and in-store sales. Spring sales are from March to August. The nearly 5,000 full and part-time employees will share in the company's success.
September 13, 2013 Canned hot tea and canned hot coffee are popular in Japan and the latest ‘hot’ canned item that is all the rage is ‘soda’. It is the first soda to be served hot not cold. Drinking warm soda may not sound good to us but in Japan they like hot things in a can. The first soda to be served this way will be Canada Dry Hot Ginger Ale which Coca Cola has spent four years developing.
September 10, 2013 With a barrel of oil hovering around $110 and tensions being very high in the middle east, gas prices managed to drop by about one penny per gallon in Maine this past week. According to the price-monitoring website, MaineGasPrices.com, the average gallon of gas in Maine is at $3.72.
September 9, 2013 A new Dunkin' Donuts will be opening this fall on Maine Avenue in Farmingale. The restaurant is due to open between mid-October to early November.
September 5, 2013 I'm always looking at the Adult Education flyers for ways to broaden my horizons. They have classes for fitness, computer knowledge and crafts.
But this one caught my eye.
AND raised my eyebrows.
August 29, 2013 You probably have driven past it a million times and wondered what it looked like inside. I am talking about the United Fitness 24/7 gym on Riverside Drive in Augusta, near the intersection of the new bridge and route 201.
August 27, 2013 General Mills has announced their monster cereals will be back for Halloween. Year round you can find monster cereals like ‘Frankenberry’,’ BooBerry’ and ‘Count Chocula’, but they are bringing back ‘Frute Brute’ and ‘Fruity Yummy Mummy’.
August 26, 2013 Maine gas prices dropped one cent this past week to an average of $3.67 a gallon, that's according to the price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com. Maine's average is ten cents higher than the national average.
August 14, 2013 Fox Sports 1, a new sports network will flip the switch this Saturday, August 17, and begin broadcasting 24 hours a day. Talent on the network includes Regis Philbin, Donavan McNabb, Andy Roddick and Gary Payton who will be in the studio for Fox Sports Live, but the network has secured major sports programming as well.
August 13, 2013 After months of sharp increases, gas prices in Maine the past few weeks have steadily started to drop. This week the average price for a gallon of gas in Maine is $3.69, that's down four cents in the past week.
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