Business & Development

The challenges and opportunities of the Greater East Grand Region (GEGR) and Washington County were addressed during the annual summit of the Sunrise County Economic Council (SCEC) on October 16 at the Danforth town hall.

The shortage of auditing firms in Maine has created a backlog that's affecting many municipalities, school districts and county governments throughout the state, including a town in Washington County that has not been receiving state school subsidies because its recent audits have not been released.

The former Guilford mill building in Eastport has been sold to a company that is planning to use it for its wreath-making operations, including temporary housing for migrant workers and perhaps eventually a wreath-making operation that could employ up to 100 people.

The site of a proposed hotel on the St. Croix riverbank in St. Stephen is for sale for $1.6 million in Canadian funds. That is the price that Brunswick Brokers/Commercial Real Estate Advisors is asking for the 2.

The Pennamaquan River in Pembroke is once again being proposed as the site of a tidal barrage to create electric power, with a new name but with a similar design to one proposed to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) by Halcyon Tidal Power and the subsidiary Pennamaquan Tidal Power...

A 2023 change in Maine law means that two of four Nexamp solar farm projects in Washington County will lose over half of their generating capacity when online.