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Machias Savings Bank kicked off the Machias Valley Airport Capital Campaign with a commitment of $50,000. The campaign is part of an effort by the town to raise $200,000 to put toward more than $5 million in airport improvements.
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the People of Color Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to fund the expansion of the “iEnglish Project: A Digital Language Literacy Program.”
A year after nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones were established in the U.S., three municipalities with zones are taking advantage of the tax law with a community-based approach designed to leverage de
Whole Oceans, of Portland, announced it completed a purchase and sale agreement with American Iron and Metal Development USA LLC for a parcel of property on the site of the former Verso paper mill.
Dan DenDanto, a Mount Desert Island scientist and expert in the specialized field of cleaning, articulating and restoring whale skeletons for display, traveled to Cape Cod in early May to collect the bones of a 40-ton humpback whale that had died in…
Maine Seacoast Mission selected Front Street Shipyard in Belfast for a significant refit of mission vessel, Sunbeam V. And construction of a building that will include the mission’s new headquarters has begun in Northeast Harbor.
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor received an award of nearly $18 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, an institute of the National Institutes of Health, for the renewal of a grant to strengthen…
The second annual Indian Market, a program of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, is expected to nearly double its economic impact in the local community. Approximately 75 Native American artists and performers from over 40 nations from across the U.S.…
The port of Bar Harbor expects 177 ships carrying 275,198 passengers this season. The ship number is down from 180 scheduled visits last year, but the passenger count is up from 230,000. The town’s capacity to accommodate increased numbers of…
Machias Savings Bank broke ground Monday on a new $5 million facility in Machias that will serve as an expansion of its home office.
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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