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If you enjoyed our Like a Boss series, please join us for Open Door. Open Door features personal reflections from local leaders about their careers, management styles and lessons they’ve learned along the way. Steve Mills, CEO of Maine Beer Company sat down with Maine Trust for Local News Managing Director Stefanie Manning for a conversation at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. About Steve: Steve Mills has taken on many leadership roles throughout his over thirty years in the craft beer industry. As CEO of Maine Beer Company, Mills expands on the company’s purpose of “doing good through great beer” which the company was founded on in 2009. His priorities are to take care of the company’s employees, give to environmental and local nonprofits, and make exceptional beer. Under his leadership, Maine Beer Company has outpaced most peers as far as growth. It is now in the top 100 of the more than 9,500 US breweries. Mills is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps where he spent most of his active duty as a member of the honor guard in Washington D.C. He enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, barbequing with friends, and boating in Casco Bay.

The city says it can't pick up the slack if an executive order slashes federal funding for refugee services and the state follows through with plans to cut back its share of General Assistance. by Grace Benninghoff [https://www.pressherald.com/author/grace-benninghoff] Portland Press Herald Story: https://www.pressherald.com/2025/02/18/portland-leaders-frustrated-over-potential-funding-changes-for-immigrants/

During the Jim Crow era, Black tourists to Maine found recreational spaces where they were welcomed, not shunned. by Gillian Graham [https://www.pressherald.com/author/gillian-graham]Portland Press Herald Megan Gray [https://www.pressherald.com/author/megan-doyle]Portland Press Herald Story: https://www.pressherald.com/2025/02/15/for-generations-black-mainers-made-sure-vacationland-was-open-to-all/ [https://www.pressherald.com/2025/02/15/for-generations-black-mainers-made-sure-vacationland-was-open-to-all/] Press Herald News Stories podcasts feed: https://podcasts.apple.com/ru/podcast/portland-press-herald-news-stories/id1734255268?l=en-GB

By Rachel Ohm, Portland Press Herald Rep. Randall Hall, R-Wilton, was indicted by an Oxford County grand jury on 12 charges Wednesday. Story: https://www.pressherald.com/2025/02/13/maine-lawmaker-accused-of-forging-signatures-on-campaign-finance-forms/ [https://www.pressherald.com/2025/02/13/maine-lawmaker-accused-of-forging-signatures-on-campaign-finance-forms/] Stories Audio Feed: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/portland-press-herald-news-stories/id1734255268

Watch: Maine Voices Live with Craig Grossi, author and Marine Corps veteran Portland Press Herald staff writer Ray Routhier sat down with author and Marine Corps veteran Craig Grossi for a conversation and book signing during a live event in Portland.  About Craig Craig and Fred Raised in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, Craig Grossi is a Marine Corps veteran, author and recipient of the Purple Heart. After getting out of the Marines in 2011, Grossi worked for the federal Defense Intelligence Agency, enrolled at Georgetown University and got a degree in international affairs. Grossi is the author of “Craig & Fred: A Marine, a Stray Dog and How They Rescued Each Other,” an uplifting true story about the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and traveled America together, and “Second Chances,” which details his experience working closely with prison inmates in Maine who raise and train puppies to become service dogs. Learn more about Craig’s story and his books in this article by Ray Routhier. Grossi and his dog Fred appeared on the Today show and Rachael Ray, and in schools, bookstores, and military bases across America as they told the uplifting story of how Craig found Fred while serving in Afghanistan—and brought him home. During their travels, Craig was invited to speak at Maine State Prison. While there, he met a group of very special inmates, participants in a program run by the nonprofit America’s Vet Dogs. Fred died of cancer at his and Grossi’s home on Nov. 22, 2023. He was 14. Grossi credits Fred with “saving” him by getting him to open up to others and ask for help. Read about Fred in this article by Ray Routhier. When not writing or speaking, Grossi enjoys life in the great outdoors and devotes his time to advocating for issues close to his heart like prison reform, animal welfare and mental health awareness. He now lives in mid-coast Maine with his wife Nora and their dogs, Ruby and a recently rescued pup named Bingo.