Business & Development

More and larger cruise ships, with passenger numbers that are more than three times the city's population, are scheduled to arrive in Eastport next year.

Look's Gourmet Food, which operates the last seafood cannery in Maine and does business as Bar Harbor Foods, has announced to its 20 employees in Whiting that the facility will be closed next month.

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 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 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 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.