Highly motivated buyers of single-family existing homes continue to pursue Maine real estate options. Statistics released today by Maine Listings show a 35.68 percent sales leap in April 2021…
Commerce
About a month ago, Francie Siegfried was still living in Norfolk, Virginia. Now the past high school English teacher, writer-editor, retail worker and social worker is living in Wiscasset over the…
Boothbay Harbor Broadband Committee
A full fiber optic build-out in Boothbay Harbor will cost about $4.1 million, Lincolnville Communications (LCI) Director of Sales and Marketing Alan Hinsey said May 3. Hinsey and LCI Vice…
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops has announced that it is opening three new locations this summer. The new stores will be located in the Topsham Fair Mall between Reny’s and Lamey Wellehan, in the…
Farley’s Cannabis Farm can switch from selling medical to recreational marijuana products. The Woolwich select board approved the change following a public hearing Monday evening, April 20. State…
Soon-to-be Boothbay Harbor residents Ed and Ashley Bernard are bringing Carefree Boat Club to the harbor. The franchise will be Carefree’s first in Maine and an addition to nearly 100 locations in…
Press release
The team at Maine & Ivy have a lot to say! Boothbay region’s preppy boutique is expanding to the world of broadcasting with the first episode of what promises to be a lively monthly podcast…
Press release
Day’s Jewelers has promoted Joseph Corey as president of the 107-year-old Maine family business. The company is based in Waterville, Maine and operates eight jewelry stores throughout…
Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new office of Sheepscot Bay Physical Therapy on Thursday, April 15. The office is on the ground floor of Wiscasset Family…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Treasury will allocate at least $56,234,176 to Maine businesses through the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), according to a news release.…
Feelings ran high at Southport’s community broadband public hearing at town hall Saturday, April 10.
Selectmen’s Chair Gerry Gamage introduced Southport Community Broadband Committee…
A week after part of the outer wall collapsed, a construction team has been assessing damage to the Wawenock Block, a fixture of Wiscasset’s Main Street for more than a century. No one was injured…
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted us all in many and varied ways. Not least has been the shift to “remote” – remote learning, remote working, remote family. And for all that remoteness, the world…
Three key sectors of Maine’s economy, agriculture and food production, aquaculture and biopharmaceuticals, are poised for growth and are well-positioned to tap global trends and transform the…
an enthusiastic and passionate person who can’t say ‘no’ when it comes to plants
After 10 years of service as district coordinator promoting conservation and farming in the Midcoast area, Hildy Ellis has retired from the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (…
The Ship Ahoy property at 112 Cape Newagen Road in Southport is pending sale and owner-to-be Swingbridge Partners is seeking an eight-lot subdivision. Code Enforcement Officer Henry Berne and…
MIDCOAST — A total of 51 businesses in Lincoln County received aid money from the second phase of the Maine Economic Recovery Grant Program.
The grant program, backed by $200 million in…
Boothbay business Bay Beauty joined forces with Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce March 18 in the Chamber’s sixth ribbon-cutting ceremony this year. Sole proprietor and esthetician Abby…
High demand for single-family existing homes across Maine continues, despite the yearlong COVID-19 pandemic. Maine Listings released new housing statistics today for the month of February 2021,…
Town of Boothbay
Boothbay Planning Board members want to visit the proposed location for a new spa building prior to granting approval. On March 17, the board tabled a PGC 5 application seeking to build a new…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources will be holding meetings to engage with Zone Councils D, E and F who have fishermen who fish in the area being reviewed for the potential of a floating…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta is holding a special sale on music CDs, from Monday, March 22 through Saturday, April 3. Every CD will be on sale at half price; there’s…
Woolwich selectmen accepted an application Monday night, March 15 from Farley’s Cannabis Farm to switch from selling medical to recreational marijuana products. A public hearing to discuss the…
The Maine Tourism Association (MTA) applauds the Maine Legislature and Governor Janet Mills for securing funding for Maine’s tourism marketing. The Maine Office of Tourism, which falls under the…
Smuggler's Cove Inn will get new life from a group of investors including businessman Scott Larson and real estate and hospitality guru Dana Moos. Investors Diane Pace, Bill Lally, Eric Bosco and…
Donna and Erik Peterson’s new business Ourport Workspace is Boothbay Harbor’s latest downtown business. The Petersons are also among the newest of Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce’s…
Kimma’s Helping Hands is one of the latest local businesses to join Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce since the Chamber started having ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Business owner Kim…
KeyBank is closing five branches in Maine, including its Camden location at the Camden Market Square, on Route 1 (Elm Street) at the Rockport town line.
“KeyBank has recently notified some…
The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta, which has been closed since November because of the pandemic, will re-open on a full schedule on Monday, March 8.…
Buyer demand for Maine’s real estate is strong and for-sale home inventory is historically low. According to Maine Listings, the median sales price (MSP) for a single-family existing home in Maine…
Boothbay region native and new business owner Bill Livingston celebrated partnership between his business Repair Concepts and Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce Feb. 18 in a ribbon cutting…
AUGUSTA — For the week ending February 13, the Maine Department of Labor recorded about 2,000 initial claims filed for state unemployment insurance, and 450 initial claims filed for federal…
FREEDOM – On one side of a window, an elderly person with dentures looks out at the same time as a mini horse with no top teeth peers in.
Belfast nursing home residents will soon have a day…
MIDCOAST — A total of 96 businesses in Lincoln County received aid money from the Maine Tourism, Hospitality & Retail Recovery Grant program.
Funding for the program originated from…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Thursday she will end the 9 p.m. early closing time for businesses, effective Monday, February 1.
The decision is the result of Maine’s improving…
Kimberly Gordon and Paige McLellan first met in 2012 as third graders, and quickly became best friends forever. The two have been nearly inseparable since, but now are spending more time together…
Maine’s residential real estate market fared well during COVID-impacted 2020. Statistics released today by the Maine Association of Realtors and Maine Listings show a sales increase of 9.82% for…
Tony C. McKim, president and chief executive officer of First National Bank and its parent company, The First Bancorp, has announced the appointment of Alyssa Allen as business development officer…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens ended its experimental, sixth Gardens Aglow season on high notes. CMBG President and CEO Gretchen Ostherr said the team pulled off a spectacular and successful…
On Friday, Jan. 15, our team stopped work at noon and began a different kind of service. Our newly renovated sales office became a classroom.
Thanks to Wiscasset EMS and…
It is official, we survived 2020. There is no question it was a trying year for each and every one of us. The Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce was amidst a significant self-examination…
Atlantic Edge has opened its next chapter. Married couple Nick and Kristin Page and Nick’s brother Andy Page are the new owners of the longstanding Boothbay Harbor business at the town’s fish pier…
Boothbay Harbor Planning Board
Kourtnee Langlois and mother-in-law Laurie Dickinson will open a “nutritional shake and energizing tea shop” in the yellow building at 43 Oak St. by early April. The Boothbay Harbor planning board…
Mammy’s Bakery owner Jessica Deshiro and staff continue to put smiles on for customers through the COVID-19 pandemic even if the smiles are hidden behind masks. Deshiro said she feels lucky Mammy’…
service employee minimum wage to be $6.08 per hour
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Labor is reminding business owners that effective January 1 the state minimum wage increases from $12 to $12.15 per hour.
This increase is pursuant to…
AUGUSTA — Amid an increase in Maine’s COVID-19 positivity rate and a continued high rate of hospitalizations, Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday she will extend the requirement for certain…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Susan Collins, in a news release, welcomed the finalization of the agreement to eliminate tariffs on live and frozen American lobster, which will help to…
Low for-sale inventory and high demand for Maine’s lifestyle has driven real estate sales and values into double-digit gains. Today, Maine Listings reported that 1,965 single-family existing homes…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry will offer two free webinars for producers interested in selling packaged meat and…
