PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A Portland company that manufacturers wharfs is bucking the tough economic times with its biggest contract ever, to build a dock system for a Rhode Island boating haven.
Custom Float Services' contract is worth more than $500,000. It has allowed Custom Float to keep its work force' [...]
"Beam Me Up," a radio show on WRFR-FM in Maine, debuted a version of my Sturgeon-award winning 1995 short story "Jigoku no Mokushiroku" on their episode yesterday. The show (with the first half of the story) is available as a podcast download at Podomatic.com. Big thanks to Paul Cole [...]
Providence Journal chart / C. Eugene Emery Jr.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Average prices for heating oil, diesel and unleaded gasoline remained virtually unchanged from last week, according to Friday's survey by the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources.
The typical price of' [...]
