Maine News Saturday

Press Herald 

A central Maine factory that makes cigar tips, golf tees and Lincoln Logs will shut down in April, putting 115 people out of work and forcing a national toymaker to find another company to make its iconic wooden building sets.  Pride Manufacturing Co. LLC informed its workers and filed notice with the state Department of Labor this week of the plant closure and pending mass layoffs, according to Peter Bennett, a Portland lawyer who represents the company.