2017
Verizon to cut service to many customers in Washington County
Verizon Wireless is cutting service to 213 customers in Maine, with almost all living in Washington County...
Business & Development
2017
New cable set for Fundy Isles
Plans by NB Power to replace the subsea cable providing electric power to Campobello and Grand Manan include a special surprise: fiber optic cables that can be used to bring enhanced Internet connectivity to the Fundy Isles.
2017
Stored Solar reports significant decline in biomass purchases
The operating status of the Jonesboro and West Enfield biomass energy plants owned by Stored Solar LLC is uncertain, with three "known" lawsuits against the company, according to Professional Logging Contractors of Maine Executive Director Dana Doran.
2017
Blueberry growers face uncertain future
“I never thought this would ever happen,” says Justin Day, 81, who has harvested his 100 acres of blueberry fields in Cooper for 50 years and whose father and grandfather before him had the fields, starting around 1900.
2017
Tide Mill Creamery poised to expand
An April day at Tide Mill Creamery in Edmunds might involve the birth of three goat kids to an already busy goat nursery and the tinkering with an ongoing recipe experiment for cheddar cheese by cheese-maker Aaron Dunn...
2017
Biomass firm seeks changes to agreement
Three months after restarting operations of two biomass energy plants in Jonesboro and West Enfield owned since October 2016 by Stored Solar LLC and previously owned by Covanta Energy, Stored Solar has shut down the Jonesboro plant and filed a request with the Maine Public Utilities Commission...
2017
Arctic mining trucks land at port terminal
Four heavy-duty tractors and 16 tandem side-dump trailers are being trucked from as far away as Idaho into the Port of Eastport for shipment to a new mining operation in the Arctic.