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Investing in Service of Strategy
Banker and Tradesman - Massachusetts
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July 6, 2025
Photo courtesy of Service Ventures Brian Regan General Partner, Service Ventures Age: 30 Industry experience: 9 years Service Credit Union has launched a new venture capital unit, Service Ventures, with the ambitious goal of investing in...
‘A national movement’: More than a dozen states consider laws around menopause care and training for doctors
KIFI Local News 8 - Idaho
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July 11, 2025
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — There’s a new wave of interest in improving menopause care in the United States – it’s in books, on podcasts and dominating social media hashtags – and it’s even generating new legislation across more than a dozen...
Trump’s Secret is Hidden in Plain Sight
The New Hampshire Gazette
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July 11, 2025
To the Editor: Why do people find Trump’s behavior puzzling? The reasons for it are remarkably clear. The “stooge” strategy has been a mainstay of mafias since before the Borgias: find a prominent but indebted businessman, bail him out, own him...
NREL Welcomes 30 Participants To Join Energy to Communities Peer-Learning Cohorts on Utility Engagement and Load Growth
CleanTechnica
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June 25, 2025
Last Updated on: 25th June 2025, 12:38 am 30 Local Leaders Join Two New Energy to Communities (E2C) Peer-Learning Cohorts on Electricity Load Growth and Utility Engagement The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is excited to announce the...
New chemical process breaks down 90% of plastic in just 30 minutes
Earth.com
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A Styrofoam (polystyrene plastic) take‑out food box can outlive its owner and their children. It weathers rain, sunlight, and curbside crushes yet still hangs around, splintering into smaller shards instead of disappearing. An Australian research...
New Report Shows Mainers Have the 5th Lowest Incomes in the US
Q96.1 - Maine
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June 30, 2025
Maine is really rural. Like, most-of-the-state-is-woods kind of rural. Outside of bigger cities like Portland, Bangor and Lewiston, there just aren’t a lot of high paying job opportunities. Fewer people, fewer businesses. That alone can bring the...
Israeli startup’s unproven marine tech raises doubts about carbon capture claims
The Times of Israel
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AP — The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to fund what it describes as a groundbreaking technology in the fight against climate change. Formed three years ago by...
What marine life will you find in the Jersey Shore surf? It's shocking
Asbury Park Press - New Jersey
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Coquina clams, also known as bean clams, are small, colorful bivalves found along the Jersey Shore. Horseshoe crabs, ancient arthropods related to spiders and scorpions, are commonly seen all along the Jersey Shore down to the Delaware Bay, where...
The Motley Fool: Strong potential, with risks
The Dallas Morning News - Texas
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July 6, 2025
The Fool’s Take Shares of all-digital bank SoFi Technologies have more than doubled in price over the past year. It’s attracting new members with its easy-to-use app and original marketing, which is reaching its target market of students and young...
Summer Spotlight: Marjorie Johnson, Volleyball
BVM Sports
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July 5, 2025
Via Colby College, 10h ago Waterville, Maine – Introducing Colby Athletics’ summer spotlight series, where we take a look into what Colby student-athletes are working on over the summer break. Up first is rising junior Marjorie Johnson of Colby...
A “Radiovana” Travelogue
Radio World
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June 29, 2025
Maine’s Sebago Lake was the setting for Radiovana. Photo by Jim Peck A couple of sunny, breezy days on a Maine lake in June. Antenna and RF systems maker Dielectric and its U.S. distributor for FM antenna products SCMS cooked up a gathering of...
State energy czar touts costliest path to 'zero carbon' electricity (copy)
The Gazette - Colorado
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Colorado Energy Office Executive Director Will Toor joined a group of “renewable” energy advocates on a press call recently, arguing that Congress should retain Inflation Reduction Act tax credits for wind, solar and grid-scale batteries, rather...
Revolutionary War ancestors
St. John Valley News - Maine
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July 11, 2025
This is the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution. The celebrations have begun, notably the Boston Tea Party and the battles at Lexington and Concord. Do you have an ancestor who fought in the Revolution or aided the Revolution...
Energy bills could be big but not beautiful in GOP-led areas
Washington Examiner
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July 11, 2025
With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act now law, there could be a spike in consumer energy bills in states represented by Republicans and handouts to blue-state residents. That’s terrible news for everyday Americans and for members of the GOP hoping...
Sanford’s police chief brings the laughs— and the law— on Facebook
Seacoastonline - New Hampshire
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Sanford Police Chief Eric Small connects with the community through weekly Facebook updates. The updates share safety tips, humorous anecdotes, and personal details about Small. Small aims to increase transparency and build relationships between...
Gen Z and Millennials Spark US Birth Rate Fears
Newsweek
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July 5, 2025
New research has sparked fears about the American birth rate and whether there is any hope for it to improve. Americans in their 20s and 30s are planning to have fewer children than a decade ago, according to Pew Research Center analysis published...
No-Fly Zones: 14 Places Planes Can't Go In The USA
SlashGear
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June 22, 2025
The sky is a wide-open expanse of seemingly endless open air. But even thousands of feet above the ground, there are still rules that must be followed. Planes can't simply fly wherever they wish. There are designated "no-fly zones" sprinkled...
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital braces for federal cuts to Medicaid
VTDigger - Vermont
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July 11, 2025
The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital campus on Belmont Avenue. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger This story by Joyce Marcel was first published in The Commons on July 8. BRATTLEBORO — Much of Windham County depends for its health care services on...
‘Investigation Shark Attack’ aims to rehab image of ocean predators
Boston Herald - Massachusetts
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July 5, 2025
If its summer, that means its Sharkfest on Hulu and Disney+, and Dr. Mike Heithaus is here to help rehabilitate this denizen of the deep from the inaccurate demonization of “Jaws.” “A lot of us shark scientists feel a need to rehabilitate the...
PNSY enters into EPA with Sanford Regional Technical Center
Seacoastonline - New Hampshire
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KITTERY, Maine – Portsmouth Naval Shipyard entered into an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Sanford Regional Technical Center (SRTC) located in Sanford, Maine, May 29. SRTC serves the students from eight area high schools in York...