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CLEVELAND, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Maine-based banks are the first in the Pine Tree State to partner with Cleveland-based KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY), giving their customers surcharge-free access to Key's automated teller machine (ATM) network, Key announced today. Auburn Savings & Loan Association and Mechanics Savings Bank -- both headquartered in Auburn -- have signed agreements with Key to allow their customers to use any of Key's 100 ATMs in Maine with no additional fees through the agent bank program. Ellsworth-based Union Trust has contracted with Key for similar customer convenience at any of Key's 2,300 ATMs nationwide. By partnering with Key, each company significantly enhances its ability to provide customer service and convenience without the large capital investment necessary to build and maintain its own ATM network, as well as the transaction-processing infrastructure needed to operate that network. "Building both an ATM network and a processing system from the ground up would take substantial time and financial commitments," said Brian Sismour, Agent Bank National Sales Manager, KeyCorp. "We have already made those investments, and we are pleased to help smaller banks, savings and loans and credit unions provide a higher level of customer service for a reasonable cost."
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The original inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine were Algonquian-speaking peoples. The first European settlement in Maine was in 1604 by a French party. The first English settlement in Maine, the short-lived Popham Colony, was established by the Plymouth Company in 1607. A number of English settlements were established along the coast of Maine in the 1620s, although the rugged climate, deprivations, and Indian attacks wiped out many of them over the years. As Maine entered the 18th century only a half dozen settlements still survived. American and British forces contended for Maine's territory during the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
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BATH, Maine, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Navy has awarded Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD - News), a $142 million contract modification to continue work on the new DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class of destroyers. Work to be performed includes long lead material procurement and pre-production planning to support detail design and ship construction. The contract being modified was originally awarded in August 2006. The Zumwalt class of ships represents the Navy's next generation of multi- mission surface combatants which will provide a broad range of capabilities that are vital both to supporting the global war on terror and to fighting and winning major combat operations. Dugan Shipway, president of Bath Iron Works, commented, "This award reinforces the commitment of the U.S. Navy to this important program and we are ... committed to its success." Bath Iron Works, a leader in surface combatant design and construction, employs approximately 5,800 people.
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Ballantyne, who has an office in South Portland, Maine, previously served as director of operations and engineering at FairPoint in the northeast. He began his career with a FairPoint company in 1981 as an installation repairman. He graduated from Erskine Academy in South China, Maine, received an associate degree from the University of Maine and later earned his business management degree from Westbrook College. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard, having served for 27 years, and is an active volunteer in his community of Gorham, Maine. He has been involved in the telecommunications industry having previously served on the board of directors of the Telephone Association of Maine and chaired the Network Services Committee for the Telephone Association of New England.
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Maine is equally well known for its ocean scenery, with almost 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of shoreline[2]. West Quoddy Head is the easternmost piece of land in the contiguous 48 United States. Along the famous rock-bound coast of Maine are lighthouses, beaches, fishing villages, and thousands of offshore islands, including the Isles of Shoals, which straddle the New Hampshire border. Jagged rocks and cliffs and thousands of bays and inlets add to the rugged beauty of Maine's coast. Just inland, by contrast, are lakes, rivers, forests, and mountains. This visual contrast of forested slopes sweeping down to the sea has been aptly summed up by American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay of Rockland and Camden, Maine in "Renascence":
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As of January 31, 2006, the energy procured for Tom's of Maine 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Sanford, Maine will be generated by the Ainsworth Wind Energy Facility in Nebraska. The 100% Wind Renewable Energy Certificate product is certified by the Green-e certification program administered by the Center for Resource Solutions. Tom's is purchasing 130,000 kilowatt hours of energy per month or approximately 1,150 Megawatts per year of renewable energy certificates from the wind farm. This purchase will avoid the emission of more than 1,587,000 lbs of carbon dioxide pollution this year.
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