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FocusMaine, a private-sector initiative to create jobs in agriculture, aquaculture and biopharmaceuticals, has hired Joanna Benoit as its new finance, grants, and administration manager.
For the past decade, the foundation’s support of the Lewiston Tree Street Initiative has yielded results and is considered a model for other organizations.
Since the Mi’kmaq Nation in Presque Isle started a community garden and a brook trout hatchery, they've became game-changers in providing healthy, culturally relevant food to the community and beyond.
With scarce inventory, Bangor is seeing a sharp increase in home prices. Builders, employers and the city itself are racing to keep up with the housing demand.
Mainebiz looks back at its 30-year history, and recalls purchases and sales that eventually influenced transactions of today.
Now in their 15th year, the Mainebiz Women to Watch awards honor women who have demonstrated leadership in wide-ranging sectors of business, health care and the nonprofit world.
Managing the City of Caribou means being a generalist and learning from others, says Thompson. She believes in education as a tool for creating a better, more engaged municipal workforce.
More than $650 million of investment is underway in the town, and Kristina Cannon leads an economic development group, Main Street Skowhegan, driving much of that growth.
The waterfronts damaged in January will receive funding to cover a wide range of needs, from rebuilding damaged wharves to repairing fuel and electrical systems.
Susan M. Collins talked with Mainebiz as she wrapped up a visit to Biddeford, Bangor and Millinocket for meetings with business leaders and local companies.
For a generation whose oldest members are only a few years out of college, owning a home is becoming an important goal — and, increasingly, an achievable one.
The supplemental HUD funding will help advance construction and redevelopment of affordable and mixed-income housing in the neighborhood.
Affordable housing projects are planned for Bath, Belfast, Bangor, Augusta and Lewiston, offering a total of 222 units.
An expanded hatchery, considered a game-changer, was one of 12 awardees in northern Maine. They also included projects aimed at workforce and child care development and municipal infrastructure.
Collaborations will integrate diverse fields such as artificial intelligence, wood-derived alternatives to plastic, and rural development, in order to foster resilient forest communities.
The owner of a mobile bakery said she’ll look for input on marketing and advertising, packaging for mailing fragile desserts, and business sustainability.
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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