Break coffee shop, before in a Engine House in Auburn, will shortly open during 50 Lisbon St. in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
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Remember how Break coffee emporium sealed final October in Auburn’s Engine House?
Those renouned vegan doughnuts swam opposite a river, dusty themselves off and found a new home.
Break is entrance to 50 Lisbon St. underneath new ownership.
Nikkita Sampson and Shivam Kumar, a Lewiston integrate and former Break regulars, will giveaway it in late winter.
The doughnuts are staying, as is a infancy of a menu, “with adding a possess small turn here and there, given we do have a culinary background,” Sampson pronounced Wednesday.
Look for some-more sum in a entrance month or two.
Heirloom Arrangements non-stop during 50 Lisbon St. in 2018 and sealed in December. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
Coming, going
Heirloom Arrangements non-stop in 2018 during 50 Lisbon St. after an Auburn integrate bought a building and themed their emporium around flowers in antique vases, pitchers and jars. It sealed in December.
Dan Coleman during Androvise Realty, a offered agent, pronounced owners Kim and Rick Caldwell had full time jobs over a emporium and weren’t removing critical family time in.
And vocalization of family
Stevens Hardware in Sabattus is now Sturdy Hardware with a father and son as owners and store manager.
The new name is a play on their final name, Sturtevant.
Tyler Sturtevant, left, a new manager during Sturdy Hardware in Sabattus, and his father, Jeff, a new owner, took over a former Stevens Hardware on Feb. 1. Submitted photo
Tyler Sturtevant pronounced shortly after his father, Jeff, became manager of Depot Square Hardware and Variety in Mechanic Falls 5 years ago, they started articulate about regulating their possess hardware store someday.
After graduating from college with a business degree, Tyler got a pursuit during Stevens Hardware in Feb 2017. Owner John Bade was looking during negligence down, eventually.
“He lerned me adult and we were means to buy a store,” Tyler said.
They took over Feb. 1. He pronounced their operative sign is “serving God and portion a community.”
“You’re only constantly assisting people with projects and elucidate problems with them,” Tyler said. “There’s so many flexibility in hardware, there’s so many to know and it’s a consistent training process.”
They’ve got large skeleton for a inside and have changed a bustling let business into room space out behind to giveaway adult room for a new sporting products area. It’s still being built out, though will eventually have hunting, fishing and hiking supplies, along with outside gear.
“We’d like to get in a good line of boots and clothing,” Tyler said. “We didn’t indeed enhance a footprint of a store, though expanding into this new market.”
He’s anticipating for that to be entirely built adult by May.
And vocalization of construction
The Szanton Company’s 48 Hampshire St. growth in Auburn is 3 months divided from opening.
The 53-unit building is on gait to open in early May, according to a news release. It will have one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments as good as a brew of market-rate and affordable units.
Market-rate units are approaching to operation from $925 to $1,350 a month and affordable from roughly $600 to $1,015.
Planning for a plan started in a summer of 2017 and involved shopping a city lot.
“We’re anxious to be during a indicate where we can start assembly with intensity tenants and display them a building,” President Nathan Szanton pronounced in a release. “The apartments aren’t totally finished yet, though folks can see mostly how they’ll look. By a finish of March, we’ll have a totally finished section to uncover people.”
Fun with numbers
Vacation let site Vacasa.com ran a engagement numbers for Dec 2019 by Feb 2020 and ranked Newry as a fourth many renouned skiing end this winter, forward of Killington, Vermont.
Another cold number? We’re so gripping a cold in Maine.
InMyArea.com says it reviewed 1 million patron use calls from late 2019 to early 2020 regulating debate research collection to magnitude a restlessness in people’s voices.
Maine was a second-least vibrated state in a country, removing a dander adult 7.68% of a time. That compares with South Dakota’s many vibrated 13.3% of a time.
Vermont in this turn came out forward as a chillest state.
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