Bus system’s hub in Trenton to get $9M to become an MDI visitors’ center
The Acadia Gateway Center in Trenton is getting $9 million from the federal government so it can become a regional visitors’ center.
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Maine’s high court wrestles with lawsuit holding major implications for CMP corridor
The case tests the power of Mainers to overrule state regulators and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s typical unwillingness to wade into political disputes during an election.
Blaze Brewing owner plans to open new location in Dover-Foxcroft
Blaze Brewing at Dover Creek will join Haskell’s existing Blaze restaurants in Bangor, Bar Harbor, Biddeford and Camden.
Judge will decide within 2 weeks when feds must issue right whale protection rules
The judge said it will be a “hard” date with which he expects the government to comply.
Regulator fines CMP $500K for improper winter disconnect notices
Maine’s utilities regulator agreed to fine Central Maine Power Co. $500,000, the top amount allowable, for issuing winter disconnection notices to customers without its prior approval.
Former cook sues maker of cooking spray can that exploded and engulfed him ‘in a fireball’
Patrick Bellisis was working in the kitchen of Pat’s Pizza in Bar Harbor on July 10, 2017, when a can of cooking spray exploded without warning and changed his life forever.
Maine doubles rent relief as evictions resume and unemployment benefits drop
Mills also signed an executive order Thursday to extend new protections to renters facing eviction, as Maine courts resume processing eviction cases next month.
Maine continues to see new jobless claims fall as expanded benefits expire
With the expiration of expanded federal benefits, some jobless Mainers face a 43 percent income drop.
Piscataquis YMCA leader grows organization despite the pandemic
Membership was a little more than 1,000 members in June 2019, and it was within a handful of that number in June 2020.
Maine’s first recreational pot sales likely to start in December
Four years after the Legislature passed a law granting recreational sales of pot, the adult-use market will probably be launched by Jan. 1.
More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in June
The number of Americans signing contracts to buy homes rose for the second straight month after a devastating spring freeze brought on by the coronavirus outbreak.
US is expected to report a record-breaking economic plunge
The U.S. economy faces a dim outlook as a resurgent coronavirus intensifies doubts about any sustained recovery the rest of the year.
Maine lawmakers want Hydro-Quebec to stop trying to influence voters on CMP corridor
The letter is the most recent volley in the high stakes debate over the $1 billion project that would bring Canadian hydropower to the regional grid through western Maine.
Watch: Tech CEOs testify at House hearing on Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon
The powerful executives are set to defend their companies as buttressing competition and offering essential services to consumers.
Coronavirus affected earnings more than union strike, BIW parent says
The strike by the largest union at Bath Iron Works, now in its sixth week, has had little impact on its parent company’s latest earnings.
Penobscot Nation opposes CMP transmission project
The Penobscot Nation is in solidarity with Canada’s Innu Nation, whose lands in Labrador have been damaged by decades of flooding to serve energy projects by Hydro-Quebec.
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