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Tourism & Recreation
Feds award $2.5M to BigRock Mountain for new chairlift
The existing lift is over 50 years old. The new lift will feature technology such as a touchscreen interface that eases system operations and maintenance.
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Maine Guides open a world of outdoor adventure
Updated: July 27, 2020Registered Maine Guides comprise an iconic sector of Maine’s tourism industry.
Updated: July 27, 2020
Bill that addresses Acadia's maintenance backlog heads to Trump's desk
Updated: July 24, 2020A bill that includes $9.5 billion to address a national park maintenance backlog is heading to the president’s desk to be signed into law.
Updated: July 24, 2020
Outdoor recreation wins big in 2020 Maine Tourism Awards
Updated: July 24, 2020Honorees include Hardy Boat Cruises and Caribou Parks and Recreation Department. All will be formally recognized at next year's state tourism conference.
Updated: July 24, 2020
On the Record: Pamela Laskey, founder of Maine Foodie Tours, now takes a different path
Updated: July 27, 2020Her company was one of Maine's fastest-growing a few years ago. Now, after the pandemic has upended Maine's dining scene, Laskey offers a wider menu of tours.
Updated: July 27, 2020
Gorham Savings Maine Marathon joins growing list of virtual fundraisers during COVID-19
Updated: July 22, 2020The event, which has raised more than $5.2 million for local charities since 1997, joins a growing list of virtual fundraisers. This year's nonprofit beneficiaries include Wayside Food Programs and behavioral health and education service provider
Updated: July 22, 2020
Despite pandemic, virtual cycling fundraiser comes up with $550K for lung health
July 21, 2020The Trek Across Maine, the largest fundraising event for the American Lung Association, had to find an alternate route after COVID-19 struck the state. This year's participants rode on their own, and shared the experience online.
July 21, 2020
A popular Bangor entrepreneurs event goes virtual this week
Updated: July 20, 2020The challenges facing entrepreneurs as they come out of the first wave of the crisis and can reopen include developing a road map to the future, says an organizer of the Blitz conference, which is holding a special, online version Thursday.
Updated: July 20, 2020Maine unemployment rate continues to sink as state adds 19K jobs in June
July 17, 2020The private sector accounted for all of the growth, with gains in fields previously hard hit by the pandemic, such as hospitality, retail and health care.
July 17, 2020
Midcoast inn fast-tracks restaurant, bar renovations during pandemic shutdown
Updated: July 22, 2020Staying at home meant not waiting on renovations to the restaurant, and addition of a bar, for owners of the Craignair Inn. They also enhanced a partnership with neighboring Clark Island, which has just been preserved by Maine Coast Heritage Trust.
Updated: July 22, 2020
Nonprofit notebook: Portland music venue raises $175K, MCF seeks grant applications
July 17, 2020After raising more than $175,000, One Longfellow Square said it will look for alternative ways to safely bring music to the public in the coming months and will prepare to resume shows in the Portland venue when that becomes possible.
July 17, 2020
Rockland schooner captain prepares to set sail, testing the season
Updated: July 17, 2020The owner of two Midcoast passenger schooners homeported in Rockland is getting ready to begin operations this weekend, while the rest of the Rockland and Camden fleet sit out the season.
Updated: July 17, 2020
Portland Sea Dogs make most of season that wasn't with outdoor dining, more golf
Updated: July 16, 2020With the 2020 minor-league baseball season suspended, the Double-A Boston Red Sox affiliate is hosting other events at Hadlock Field in Portland this summer.
Updated: July 16, 2020
Amtrak Downeaster adds trains between Boston and Brunswick
Updated: July 16, 2020Starting July 20, there will be four daily round-trip passenger trains between Brunswick and Boston as the service aims to get back on track from a reduced schedule during the pandemic.
Updated: July 16, 2020
Lewiston may create inspection program for lodging houses
July 14, 2020The inexpensive housing establishments have been inspected by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. But DHHS may end its oversight of them.
July 14, 2020
No nuptial bliss: Maine's wedding businesses look to expand the guest list
Updated: July 14, 2020A group of businesses cites the state’s limit on social gathering size for the loss of the first two-thirds of the 2020 wedding season and $600 million in revenue.
Updated: July 14, 2020
Pandemic gives York surfboard maker time to finalize new hybrid design
July 13, 2020A surfboard manufacturer used the pandemic’s down time to finalize a hybrid design combining wood construction with a plastic perimeter rail. The pandemic is driving increased interest in surfing.
July 13, 2020
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