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  • Calais forms TIF district to boost growth

    March 15, 2017

    The Calais City Council has approved a tax increment financing district that includes much of the downtown as well as other lots to spur economic development.

  • Jackson Lab nabs $2.8M in fed grants to target breast cancer

    Staff March 6, 2017

    Two Jackson Laboratory professors, including the Bar Harbor Lab's CEO, were awarded two U.S. Department of Defense grants totaling $2.8 million to research one of the most deadly breast cancers.

  • Machias Savings opens Portland branch

    Staff March 2, 2017

    Machias Savings Bank has opened a new branch at 193 Middle St. in Portland on Feb. 27.

  • Longtime Stonington restaurant sees transformation

    March 2, 2017

    Fisherman's Friend — a table-service restaurant in Stonington that spanned two locations in 40 years — is being repurposed as a counter-service eatery called Stonecutters Kitchen.

  • Ellsworth pop-up event spurs downtown growth

    February 27, 2017

    A December pop-up event in Ellsworth called the Holiday Marketplace has persuaded several businesses to set up permanent shops in town.

  • New data: Maine Airbnb hosts earn $26 million in 2016

    Staff February 22, 2017

    Airbnb announced today that Maine's 3,700 active hosts earned more than $26 million in supplemental income in 2016 by hosting approximately 174,000 visitors to the state.

  • Vitamin helps prevent certain vision loss, JAX researchers find

    Staff February 17, 2017

    Taking vitamin B3 in water may slow or prevent the slow vision loss from glaucoma, an eye disease that eventually leads to blindness and has no cure currently, researchers at Jackson Laboratory found.

  • Chlorine leak at Baileyville mill sends several people to hospital

    February 17, 2017

    A leak of toxic chlorine dioxide at the Woodland Pulp mill in Baileyville affected 16 contractors and two employees, sending several to the hospital.

  • Rural Maine health centers to get more than $700,000 in federal funds

    February 16, 2017

    The U.S. Department of Health and Services has announced that it will award a total of $732,842 in federal funding to three Maine health centers.

  • Downeast Wind proposes 100MW wind farm in Washington County

    February 16, 2017

    Downeast Wind, a Maine subsidiary of Apex Clean Energy of Charlottesville, Va., is looking at building a wind energy facility of 30 wind turbines over 9,000 acres in Columbia, Cherryfield and the Townships 18 and 19 area of Washington County.

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Do you support an increase in Portland's minimum wage?
Poll Description

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 $19 per hour by 2028. (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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