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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 9 O C T O B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 5 company announced in August it would be laying off 300 Maine workers. e Maine spokesman for the Memphis, Tenn.-based company told the Morning Sentinel on Oct. 14 that the company was nearly finished identify- ing who will be laid off, but he wouldn't say when the company will notify employees. e Maine Department of Labor and other agencies planned worker assistance workshops at the mill to provide relief for laid-off workers, the paper reported. Verso Corp. said in August it would permanently eliminate about 300 jobs at its Androscoggin Mill in Jay and lay off an additional 310 at another mill in Kentucky. Italian market to open in downtown Waterville e former downtown Waterville store- front of Barrels Community Market, which closed earlier this summer, is set to become a "high-end Italian market," the Morning Sentinel reported. e market expects to open in December. It is a venture between Nick Isgro, mayor of Waterville and a controller at Skowhegan Savings Bank, and Candace and Tom Savinelli, owners of an Italian bakery and deli next door, the paper reported. e Savinellis' Italian bakery and deli, Holy Cannoli, opened in downtown Waterville three years ago and moved to the location at 72 Main St. a year later. N O T E W O R T H Y C E N T R A L & W E S T E R N The National Science Foundation award- ed $1.35 million in grant funding to the Maine Math and Science Alliance in Augusta to develop an online learning community that explores the impact of weather and climate along the coast. The United States Department of Agriculture awarded Community Concepts Inc. in Lewiston $793,800 in grant funding to help 30 very-low and low-income families construct their own homes in rural areas across Maine. Oxford Casino raised a total of $34,200 for the United Way of Oxford County's annual Campaign Drive. EPA cites potato processing plant in Belfast over ammonia e U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cited a Belfast potato processor www.mmc.org The completion of our new surgery unit makes it possible for us to further invest in the lives of our staff and our community, by allowing us to deliver the highest level of patient care to more people than we ever have before. Thank you to all of our employees and partners who worked together to build something even bigger than a building — a way to get more patients home sooner. The best feature about our new surgery unit? More homecomings. M I D C O A S T & D O W N E A S T