People once told Becky Shepherd she was crazy for opening a cafe in Brunswick’s downtown, but now some of the same voices are telling her she is deserting the people who helped grow her business.
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Three reappointed to state service commission by Gov. Mills
Brunswick’s Branham, Portela and Lewiston’s Barrett to continue serving for an additional three-year term.
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Rockweed industry adrift after ruling allows landowners to restrict access
The court decision this spring overturned decades of precedent that harvesters relied on to cut the wild seaweed.
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Maine delegation applauds U.S. military’s role in death of ISIS leader
But they stress that the Islamic State remains a threat and the U.S. must continue to combat violent extremism.
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Environmentalists propose Mainers farm quahogs to beat pests
Manomet, based in Plymouth, Mass., says the harder species of clam can better stand up to predators.
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Energy efficiency remains the improbable dream
Weatherizing Maine’s older home stock is critical to meeting the state’s ambitious goals to cut emissions, but high costs and an insufficient workforce put that reduction out of reach.
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Facing a raft of retirements, BIW seeks 1,000 new hires
Bath Iron Works is known for building Navy warships from the ground up, but if it wants to stay in business it has to do the same to its workforce. The shipyard is in the midst of a massive hiring push to finish a backlog of ship work and reinforce its army of mechanics, many of whom are nearing […]
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‘We just can’t compete with Canada right now’: Tariffs drive down U.S. lobster exports to China by 46%
At the start of last summer, the U.S. lobster industry was riding high, fueled by explosive growth in sales to a Chinese middle class that couldn’t seem to get enough of our tasty, lucky-color red symbol of wealth, status and success. Then, in July, China slapped the U.S. lobster industry with a 25 percent tariff in the second […]
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Hemp: Maine’s newest growing field
NORTH ANSON — John Black has arranged his equipment around a recently empty dairy barn, neat piles of irrigation tubing, dozens of components, two shiny, 12-foot-tall satellite-guided tractors. He’s got every-farmer woes — if only it hadn’t rained so much and he’d gotten that extra three weeks in the ground — and for the first […]
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Bath-built destroyer USS Daniel Inouye christened in honor of U.S. senator, war hero
BATH — Bath Iron Works’ 37th Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the future USS Daniel Inouye, was christened Saturday by the namesake’s widow, Irene Inouye. Born in Hawaii in 1924, Daniel Inouye was a World War II hero who went on to become the first Japanese-American elected to Congress. He served in the USenate for 50 years and was […]