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June 2, 2025Edition

🔒Newsworthy people and performances for June 2, 2025

A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements at businesses, nonprofits, health care institutions and professional services firms in Maine.

🔒On the Record: Music entrepreneur Chris Brown is targeting clients ‘with artistic and career momentum’

After three decades with Bull Moose, Chris Brown left the music and entertainment retailer to start a music consulting business called Chris Brown 33.

🔒Taste of Maine potato chip plant under construction in Aroostook County

The Taste of Maine Potato Chip Co. in Aroostook County will be 96,000 square feet, employ 40 to 60 people and use locally grown potatoes.

🔒Slurpin’ USA: On the water with Maine’s oyster growers

Mainebiz contributing photographer Jim Neuger spends time with Maine's oyster growers for a photo essay.
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🔒Rising costs and buyer hesitancy stall Portland housing projects

Two high-end condominium developments and a 327-unit apartment complex targeted to middle-income households are all now on hold due to rising costs.

🔒Ask ACE: We’re hiring, but no one seems like the right fit. What can we do differently?

The issue may not be the talent pool, but the process leading to the hire. Without a well-structured hiring process, you’re likely to attract and hire the wrong candidates.

🔒Made in Maine: A former ship’s cook makes traditional Asian fermented foods

Belfast-based Red Kettle Foods makes traditional kimchi and other products using Maine ingredients such as daikon, cucumbers, carrots, onions and ginger.

🔒Editor’s note: How oysters and potatoes find their way to our tables

There’s an old saying, “It took a brave man to eat the first oyster.” And it took a brave photographer to get out in a small skiff on a cold spring day — all in the name of documenting the Maine oyster trade.
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