Business & Development

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.

The port of Eastport is seeking to grab a tiger by the tail, as it goes after Transportation Infrastructure Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) funding under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for restoring freight rail service for the port.

Representatives of Acadian Seaplants Ltd. of Pennfield gave a presentation to Pembroke selectmen at their meeting of July 20 to update them on the company's 2009 rockweed harvesting operations in Cobscook Bay.