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Eighty-five years after Prohibition ended in 1933, voters in Penobscot have decided it's time to allow hard liquor to be sold in their Hancock County town of slightly more than 1,200 residents.
The impact of the closure of the Downeast Correctional Facility on Washington County's economy could be as much as $8.4 million.
The LePage administration is endorsing legislation to build a new pre-release center in Washington County.
A Maine-based company calling itself Whole Oceans announced on Thursday its plans to purchase most of the former Verso paper mill site it Bucksport and build a land-based aquafarm to raise Atlantic salmon.
Washington County, still reeling from the closure of the Downeast Correctional Facility in Bucks Harbor, now has to contend with the prospect of the county jail closing too.
The number of cruise ships scheduled to arrive in Bar Harbor the 2018 season is 14 more than 2017.
A historic Lubec smoked herring shed that broke away from the waterfront during the Jan. 4 blizzard and eventually beached on Canada's Campobello Island has become the object of a heated international social media exchange.
The new Jackson Laboratory facility under construction in Ellsworth includes numerous safeguards to minimize the building's unique challenges for local firefighters if it ever catches on fire.
The Jackson Laboratory is planning to have a 45,000-square-foot warehouse built on its Bar Harbor campus that would be equipped with offices, loading docks and maintenance garages.
A program to get Maine wild blueberries into public schools increased sales by 57% in 2017, despite a crop shortfall this year.
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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