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  • Craft brewers soak up locally sourced and processed grains

    Lori Valigra May 5, 2016

    Rising Tide Brewing Co. said it plans to use some Maine-grown and processed grains in every batch of beer it brews. Buying from local growers and processors is a new trend in Maine as malthouses and local grain growers turn their eyes to the booming

    Lori Valigra May 5, 2016
  • Olympic team to sport shoes handcrafted in Lewiston

    May 4, 2016

    The U.S. Olympic team will be sporting red, white and blue leather boat shoes handcrafted by the Lewiston-based shoemaker Rancourt & Co. during the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro this summer.

    May 4, 2016
  • Bath Iron Works to build first Flight III destroyer

    Staff May 2, 2016

    U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King announced that the Navy's first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51) will be built at Bath Iron Works.

    Staff May 2, 2016
  • 'Buy American' legislation included in DoD spending bill

    Staff April 29, 2016

    U.S. Reps. Bruce Poliquin of Maine and Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts were successful in including language to this year's National Defense Authorization Act that requires the Department of Defense to purchase American-made footwear for United States

    Staff April 29, 2016
  • Move over Doogie Howser — Maine has its own whiz kid

    April 26, 2016

    The business ventures of 14-year-old entrepreneurs have come a long way from newspaper delivery routes and lawn mowing rackets, as Jack Cardin of Saco has shown with Kinney Shores Trading Co.

    April 26, 2016
  • Waldoboro manufacturer of specialty grilling products expands to Georgia

    Staff April 25, 2016

    The Waldoboro-based grilling and smoking woods manufacturer, Flame Grilling Products Inc., has finalized plans to open a satellite operation in Glennville, Ga., in an expansion that its co-founder says will allow it to control quality and maintain

    Staff April 25, 2016
  • ‘Legacy’ Brewer brick maker closes

    April 25, 2016

    After 110 years in business, the Brewer-based Brooks Brick Co. called it a day on Friday — as competition from brick suppliers out of state, lack of demand from homeowners, budget cutbacks for school facilities and an aging workforce of masons has

    April 25, 2016
  • UMaine-created technology rocketing to International Space Station

    Staff April 15, 2016

    A wireless leak detection system developed by researchers at the University of Maine in Orono is scheduled for liftoff aboard a SpaceX rocket for a 249-mile voyage to the International Space Station.

    Staff April 15, 2016
  • Poliquin, Tsongas introduce bill requiring DOD to adhere to 'buy American' rule

    James McCarthy April 14, 2016

    U.S. Reps. Bruce Poliquin and Niki Tsongas have introduced legislation requiring the Department of Defense to purchase American-made footwear for United States military personnel, which would give Boston-based footwear company and other American

    James McCarthy April 14, 2016
  • New Balance breaks silence, voices opposition to trade deal

    James McCarthy April 13, 2016

    New Balance, a Massachusetts footwear company with 900 employees working at three factories in Maine, has renewed its opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal eliminating footwear tariffs imposed on Vietnam.

    James McCarthy April 13, 2016
  • Navy budget proposal would provide BIW solid funding

    April 7, 2016

    A top-level Navy official told a Senate Armed Services Committee that it is seeking $81.4 billion to purchase just over three dozen warships, submarines and support vessels in the next five years — a request that would provide Bath Iron Works steady

    April 7, 2016
  • Pika Energy receives $25K funding from venture capital

    April 5, 2016

    CEI Ventures Inc., a for-profit venture capital subsidiary of the Brunswick-based Coastal Enterprises Inc., has invested $250,000 in the Westbrook-based clean energy equipment manufacturer Pika Energy, as a part of a new venture capital fund.

    April 5, 2016
  • Restructuring leads to job losses at Rockland FMC plant

    April 1, 2016

    One of the largest employers in Knox County and one of Rockland's largest property taxpayers, the Philadelphia-based chemical manufacturing company FMC, has announced that it will be cutting its workforce at its plant on the Rockland waterfront.

    April 1, 2016
  • Putney sold for $200M to UK veterinary company; founder to leave

    Lori Valigra March 15, 2016

    Putney Inc., a Portland-based veterinary product company, said on Tuesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to be bought by Dechra Holdings US Inc. The two will operate as one company, said. Putney founder Jean Hoffman will leave when the

    Lori Valigra March 15, 2016
  • Connecticut equity firm scoops up Portland manufacturer

    March 11, 2016

    Nichols Portland, the sixth-largest private employer in Maine's most populated city, has been sold to a Connecticut-based investment firm.

    March 11, 2016
  • The entrepreneurs of Brunswick's TechPlace

    Lori Valigra March 7, 2016

    TechPlace, the entrepreneur incubator at Brunswick Landing, lacks the cacophony and frenetic energy of the typical Massachusetts or Silicon Valley startup space, and that's not a bad thing.

    Lori Valigra March 7, 2016

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Summer in New England – or anywhere else for that matter – is an ideal time for pleasure reading, and tastes can vary widely as we recently wrote about in a seasonal feature story.

With Maine's abundance of independent bookstores, including a new vendor on wheels making the rounds in the midcoast region, we're keen to know what you're paging through.