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  • Focus on Small Business
    Focus on Small Business

    Aroostook County initiative touts potential of a 'forest products cluster'

    James McCarthy

    The Aroostook Partnership for Progress, a public-private organization created to spur economic development in Maine's northernmost county, is leading a grassroots effort to advance the forest products sector as a “cluster” with a strong potential

  • Change afoot on Main Street: Rebuilding of Helen's a bellwether of change in Machias

    Laurie Schreiber

    When Helen's Restaurant was destroyed by fire in July 2014, the loss had both a sentimental and economic impact on a community trying to become a destination rather than a drive-through town.

  • FAME bills emphasize economic and workforce development

    James McCarthy

    In his first legislative session as CEO of the Finance Authority of Maine, Bruce Wagner says his message to lawmakers emphasized the agency's effectiveness in supporting the creation of good-paying jobs through its economic development and educati

  • Maine entrepreneurs take setbacks in stride

    Fickle customers, fire, financing issues — Maine small businesspeople are well acquainted with these challenges.This issue of Mainebiz focuses on small businesses and it's chockablock with stories of comebacks and gritty successes.

  • These UMaine students would make Deming proud

    James McCarthy

    Two boats rest on the lawn outside the University of Maine's Advanced Manufacturing Center. It's a sunny May afternoon, a few days before commencement.

  • From napkin sketch to $20 million in sales: Owners of Sea Salt Lobster talk growth

    James McCarthy

    In just six years, Shawn McEwen and Morey Highbarger have gone from a simple napkin sketch to being co-owners of a Saco-based wholesale and retail seafood company, Sea Salt Lobster, with $20 million in annual sale

  • How To's
    How To's

    How to make priorities your top priority

    Jim Milliken

    Too busy? Too much to do? Not good. When your workload is greater than your capacity, you have no control over what bounces off the back of the truck. It could be the most important thing you should be doing today.

  • How To's
    How To's

    How to manage your focus and energy

    Doug Packard

    While business leaders work diligently at managing people and projects, most find it difficult to manage their own focus and energy.

  • In Short
    In Short

    Newsworthy people and performances

    New hiresFriends of the Presumpscot River in Westbrook hired Aaron Frederick as executive director. Frederick worked as a consultant since co-founding Rippleffect Inc. in Portland.

Today's Poll

Is your business making preparations or changing plans because of the April 8 solar eclipse?
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Poll Description

With the Great Eclipse of 2024 just days away, people and businesses are preparing for the solar spectacle.

A hospitality industry report estimates that 1 in 5 Americans who travel are likely to hit the road in order to glimpse the eclipse on April 8. It will place parts of 15 states in darkness.

Maine will receive anywhere from 7,000 to 27,000 visitors, according to one forecast. Hotels, inns, campgrounds and other lodgings are already booked full, as Mainebiz reported Feb. 29.

Other businesses — both inside and outside the path of totality — are also making plans.