Business & Development

With seven years under her belt of providing a warm and inviting place to eat the kind of home-style food that makes for happy customers, Karen Scribner, owner of Karen's Main Street Diner in downtown Calais, is ready to expand her offerings to include a pub.

The ongoing saga of what company may ship wood chips through the Port of Eastport took more twists and turns at the 11th hour, as the port authority board seemed at first willing to dance with Great Northern Timber, based in Halifax, then dropped that partner in favor of a new suitor, Timber...

The Eastport Port Authority has reached a tentative agreement with Timber Biofuel Venture for the company to ship wood chips through the Port of Eastport.

Woodland Pulp LLC, which owns three water storage dams along the St. Croix River watershed, is seeking to have them become exempt from new federal licensing requirements because of the high cost of both the licensing process and the regulations that would be imposed.

The Passamaquoddy Tribe is pursuing a plan to tap into the maple syrup market, using 28,000 acres it owns around Jackman. Chief Clayton Cleaves of Pleasant Point says he had been hoping that 35,000 trees could be tapped this coming season...

Great Northern Timber Inc., based in Halifax, is expected to begin stockpiling wood chips at the Port of Eastport's new bulk material storage yard in January, with the first shipment to be loaded during the first quarter of the new year.