Renee Cordes

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After a dozen years as a writing teacher, Laura Rinck was feeling restless in her career. One day she took the leap and asked a student's parent who worked in advertising about becoming a summer intern with her firm. Rinck landed the summer internship and has been working in the industry ever since, starting Rinck Advertising in Lewiston more than 25 years ago. “My career started with an act of courage,” Rinck told a Mainebiz forum in Portland on Thursday.

1 week ago | mainebiz.biz | Renee Cordes

Out of 127 high school technology innovators from 15 high schools who applied to this year’s Maine App Challenge, three took home prizes for the mobile applications they created. The annual contest is sponsored by Tyler Technologies Inc. (NYSE: TYL), a Plano, Texas-based provider of software and technology solutions with more than 1,200 employees in Maine. This year’s first place winner was Eugene Irving Frost of Rumford's Mountain Valley High School.

1 week ago | mainebiz.biz | Renee Cordes

Bangor-based Northern Light Health will claw back $49 million for care delivered during the pandemic. The delayed payback, approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and announced by the office of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will reimburse costs associated with the health system's COVID response.

1 week ago | mainebiz.biz | Renee Cordes

Aiming to smooth over U.S. trade tensions with Canada, Gov. Janet Mills and five other regional governors have invited six Canadian premiers for a cross-border summit in Boston. Maine’s Democratic governor, joined by her peers from Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, extended the invitation to the premiers of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Québec. A meeting date has not yet been set.

1 week ago | mainebiz.biz | Renee Cordes

Less than a year after Lea Duffy joined the city of South Portland as economic development specialist, she has been promoted to the top post in the department. Photo / Courtesy of City of South Portland Lea Duffy The Pennsylvania native succeeds William Mann, who recently resigned as economic development director after seven years in the job.