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August 25, 2025

Focus on Northern Maine

Hire ground: Northern Maine employers hustle to attract — and keep — workers

Renee Cordes

Across Piscataquis County, employers in sectors from health care to manufacturing and hospitality are improvising to hire and retain employees.

In Maine, ‘value added’ is taking on new meaning

John O’Meara
Focus on Greater Bangor & Northern Maine

Focus on Greater Bangor & Northern Maine
From an ice cream shop to a hot tub dealer, a wave of new businesses is opening in downtown Bangor

Laurie Schreiber
Ahoy! Moosehead Lake’s fabled steamship Katahdin still chugging

Jim Neuger
Made in Maine: A spicy condiment made on Portland’s East End

Alexis Wells

Building Business

Building Business
Building Business: High Tide Capital repurposes historic properties for modern housing

Tina Fischer

Orono Lofts will be a three-story, 40,000-square-foot building at 74 Mill St. The building was originally constructed in the 1800s as a church before being converted for Byers Manufacturing.
On the Record: Portland nonprofit leader makes a business case for revitalizing city’s Arts District

Renee Cordes

Annie Leahy, executive director of Mechanics' Hall, talks about an initiative to fill empty downtown storefronts with art installations to "tell a visual story" about what the space cold become.
Ask ACE

Ask ACE
Ask ACE: What’s the best way to keep business development people on task and on staff?

Donna Brassard, Strategies+

Fancy job titles skirt the core purpose: making the sale. Employees may understandably assume the role is about maintaining current accounts, networking or promoting products — not actively pursuing new business.
Newsworthy people and performances for Aug. 25, 2025

A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements at businesses, nonprofits, health care institutions and professional services firms in Maine.
Editor's note: Putting the ‘process’ in food processing

Peter Van Allen

For many years products grown and harvested in Maine were sent out of state to be processed. But that's changing.

Today's Poll

Poll Description

The Portland City Council is weighing a controversial proposed hike to the city’s minimum wage.

The proposal would increase the minimum wage from $15.50 per hour to $20 per hour within four years. (The statewide hourly minimum wage is $14.65.)

The proposal does not include a wage hike for tipped workers who are currently paid an hourly wage of $7.75, but employers are required to ensure that wages and tips combined total $15.50 per hour.

While inflation pressures have made it hard to survive on the minimum wage, many business owners are concerned the hike would cut already thin margins.

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Hire ground: Northern Maine employers hustle to attract — and keep — workers

In Maine, ‘value added’ is taking on new meaning

From an ice cream shop to a hot tub dealer, a wave of new businesses is opening in downtown Bangor

Ahoy! Moosehead Lake’s fabled steamship Katahdin still chugging

Made in Maine: A spicy condiment made on Portland’s East End

Building Business: High Tide Capital repurposes historic properties for modern housing

On the Record: Portland nonprofit leader makes a business case for revitalizing city’s Arts District

Ask ACE: What’s the best way to keep business development people on task and on staff?

Newsworthy people and performances for Aug. 25, 2025