Potato farmers innovate to find new markets

Talking about his new potato planter, Jay LaJoie uses a matter-of-fact tone to describe technology that would have seemed like science fiction to previous generations of farmers. A GPS...

CashStar's David Stone leaves company he co-founded

David Stone, a 2012 Mainebiz Business Leader of the Year and founding CEO of digital gift...

Lewiston startup targets trendy blender surge

Blenders, both disassembled and whole, line work benches at the former Bates Mill Store in Lewiston, where father and son entrepreneurs work side-by-side, testing and comparing...

Down East sells book division

The Rockport-based Down East Enterprise Inc., publisher of Down East magazine, has sold its book division to a Washington, D.C. company.The...

Legislative test ahead for East-West highway study

Legislative committees continue to pick apart specific portions of Gov. Paul LePage's $6.3 billion budget proposal, making recommendations to the appropriations committee, which will...

UMaine project unlocks nanofiber potential

John Wolanski, vice president of sales and marketing at GAC Chemical in Searsport, remembers clearly the epiphany he had upon hearing Gov. Angus King proclaim in the 1990s, "Let no...

Natural gas expansion drives ETTI's growth

Road crews, traffic detours and dusty, scarred landscapes are a far cry from the postcard Vacationland images that attract so many summer visitors to Maine. But disruptive digging...

Collins, King support measure allowing states to tax online sales

Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King voted with the majority in a 74-20 U.S. Senate vote Monday on a bill that would allow states to collect sales taxes from online retailers.