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Technology

  • Maine Accelerates Growth consortium started to spur entrepreneurship

    Lori Valigra September 17, 2015

    Maine Accelerates Growth, a new consortium aimed at building on earlier work by Blackstone Accelerates Growth to promote entrepreneurship in Maine, was announced Thursday by its coordinators.

    Lori Valigra September 17, 2015
  • Bait shortage hits lobster fishery

    September 16, 2015

    Herring is in short supply statewide, causing temporary bait shortages in the lobster fishery.

    September 16, 2015
  • Maine entities get $284K in federal energy funds

    September 16, 2015

    Maine was among 11 states getting part of the $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's State Energy Program grants, which were announced Sept. 15.

    September 16, 2015
  • UMaine Business Challenge prize gets a boost

    September 15, 2015

    The UMaine Business Challenge, Maine's largest student entrepreneurship competition, recently announced The Fournier Family Foundation Technology Prize has been increased.

    September 15, 2015
  • Maine-based S.W.Cole expands into Vermont

    September 10, 2015

    Bangor-based S.W.Cole Engineering Inc. has acquired the construction materials testing division of EIV Technical Services, a Vermont-based firm that provides services including civil engineering, construction inspection and historic assessment.

    September 10, 2015
  • State approves demolition of Bucksport paper mill

    September 8, 2015

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has granted a demolition permit to the Canadian firm that purchased the shuttered Bucksport paper mill from Verso Paper Corp. in January.

    September 8, 2015
  • Use your most valuable asset — your contact list

    Nancy Marshall September 7, 2015

    Ask any seasoned business leader to reveal the secrets to success, and one of the first things he or she will mention is a strong contact list.

    Nancy Marshall September 7, 2015
  • A 'Hatchery' for student entrepreneurs: Foundation grant helps launch COA's venture incubator

    Laurie Schreiber September 7, 2015

    A donation to College of the Atlantic's business incubator will allow an unusual program to graduate from its scraping-by status to a permanent place in the curriculum.

    Laurie Schreiber September 7, 2015
  • 'Jet-on-wheels' hopes to steal Maine air show

    September 4, 2015

    A car packing 12,000 horsepower and 6,500 pounds of thrust hopes to steal the show at the Great State of Maine Air Show over Labor Day weekend in Brunswick.

    September 4, 2015
  • New rail lease may end summer train

    September 3, 2015

    Central Maine & Quebec Railway on Wednesday won the right to lease the state-owned rail line between Brunswick and Rockland and operate freight service on it, according to the Portland Press Herald.

    September 3, 2015
  • DEP announces $800K in stream crossing grants

    September 3, 2015

    Maine's Department of Environmental Protection said Wednesday that it has issued $800,000 for 15 projects in the first round of dispensing $5.4 million in funds earmarked for vital improvement projects by the November 2014 “Clean Water for Maine”

    September 3, 2015
  • Brunswick hotel data breach may have exposed 2,600 credit cards

    September 3, 2015

    Credit card information on up to 2,600 guests at the Brunswick Hotel and Tavern between November 2014 and July 2015 may have been exposed by malware on a computer.

    September 3, 2015
  • Brunswick hotel data breach may have exposed 2,600 credit cards

    September 3, 2015

    Credit card information on up to 2,600 guests at the Brunswick Hotel and Tavern between November 2014 and July 2015 may have been exposed by malware on a computer.

    September 3, 2015
  • Federal judge orders Mallinckrodt to pay for mercury cleanup plan

    September 3, 2015

    A federal judge Wednesday ordered Mallinckrodt Manufacturing Co. to pay to develop a detailed cleanup plan for mercury in the Penobscot River in what could potentially become one of the largest and costliest environmental remediation projects in

    September 3, 2015
  • Leon Gorman, who led L.L.Bean for four decades, dies

    September 3, 2015

    Leon Gorman, 80, who lead various parts of retailer L.L.Bean for more than four decades, died at his home in Yarmouth Thursday.

    September 3, 2015
  • Portland Science Center to open Friday with 'Body Worlds' exhibit

    September 3, 2015

    The new Portland Science Center, scheduled to open Sept. 4 on Maine Wharf after a couple months' delay, expects to draw about 100,000 visitors to the “Body Worlds” exhibit, according to organizers.

    September 3, 2015

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Today's Poll

Will Maine be hurt by not offering free tuition at community colleges?
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This year's high school graduates will be the last to benefit from a program that offers free tuition within the Maine Community College System. 

The Free College Scholarship, launched in 2022, covered all tuition and mandatory fees for students who graduated from high school or passed an equivalency exam between 2020 and 2025. Nearly 18,000 students took advantage of the program. 

But last week, state lawmakers declined to continue the funding and it was not part of the budget signed by Gov. Janet Mills.