Business & Development

Jeannine Lank of Robbinston was part of the first training class in January 2008 when Acrobat Research opened its doors in Calais with much fanfare -- and with the projection of employing as many as 200 people in an area hungry for jobs.

The Three Ring Binder project to bring expanded broadband access for service providers to Downeast Maine may be threatened if meetings between the Maine Fiber Company and Fairpoint are unsuccessful. The areas of discussion revolve around access to Fairpoint's telephone poles.

The Port of Eastport received some good news and some bad news on February 17, with the announcement that $2 million in federal Recovery Act funding was approved to provide additional monies for the port's bulk conveyor system project.

One truck, 10 farmers and 600 cows are in sync to provide Maine's Own Organic Milk -- MOOMilk -- and have it on Hannaford store shelves by Saturday, January 23. Nearly one year after Maine organic milk farmers received notice from H.P.

Redundancy is not a word usually associated with good business practices, but for telecommunications it is considered healthy. "We want redundancy for reliability," says John Porter, public relations manager for the Three Ring Binder collaborative.

Two wood pellet producers, one locally based and one from outside the region, recently contacted the port of Eastport to indicate their interest in shipping through the port, following the passage of the transportation bond issue in the November 3 statewide election that will provide $4.