Correcting the record

A photo caption published in the State section Wednesday accompanying the story “Maine group tours Casella-run landfill” incorrectly identified Greg Lounder and Peter Dufour as state employees. Lounder is an employee of Eastern Maine Development Corp. and is the executive director of the Municipal Review Committee. Dufour is a member of the West Old Town Landfill Advisory Committee. Also the state of Vermont was excised inadvertently from a map that accompanied the story. Nevertheless, Vermont still exists between upstate New York and New Hampshire.

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In a Sept. 29 business story about a planned 11-cent increase in the average price of Starbucks coffee drinks, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the company cited specific increases in the costs of coffee and sugar as a reason.

Starbucks spokeswoman Audrey Lincoff said the company never said that coffee prices have risen 36 percent and sugar prices 39 percent in the past year. The company said the increase was prompted by higher costs across its business but declined to detail those costs.

The American Sugar Alliance said sugar prices in the United States have been declining, not rising. The Specialty Coffee Association said there’s no way to measure the cost of high-quality beans used by Starbucks.