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 […]
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BIW gets $14.9M to design frigate
BATH Bath Iron Works has secured another contract. The Navy announced Friday that BIW was awarded $14.95 million to create a concept design for its new class of guided missile frigate. The Navy is looking to purchase up to 20 of the yet unnamed FFG(X), with the first frigate to be procured in fiscal year […]