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UMaine and Maine Sea Grant support effort to boost sea urchin farming in New England

Maine home values jumped 13.78 percent in 2020

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 all...
A different kind of service

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 Service Chief Erin Bean's...
Veggies to Table gets cold storage unit

As winter progresses and spring is on the horizon, Veggies to Table, a grow-to-donate farm in Newcastle, is deep in season three planning mode and looking forward to growth in 2021. In their first...
Common Ground Fair 2021 dates set

On Jan. 14, 2021, at the annual meeting of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), the organization kicked off a year-long celebration of MOFGA’s 50th anniversary by unveiling...
Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce year in review

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 and...
Chamber welcomes 2 new businesses

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 on...
Maine Boatbuilders Show to return in 2021

We like boats more than we have good sense and want everyone to share that passion. Every March at the equinox, since 1987, the Maine Boatbuilders Show has been on the minds and calendars of the...
Boothbay Harbor Planning Board

Langlois, Dickinson to open Oak Street tea and shake shop

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...
DMR will be holding virtual Vibrio training sessions in 2021

2021 Vibrio training is required for harvesters and dealers who harvest or buy oysters or hard clams directly from the Damariscotta River, New Meadows Lakes and the upper Sheepscot River. Please note...
Sturgeon in Maine lecture Jan. 21

Learn about Maine’s living fossils – sturgeon! A virtual lecture on Thursday, Jan. 21 will focus on some of Maine’s most interesting fish. Although you may have seen or heard sturgeon leap and splash...
UMaine Extension, UNH Extension offer free farm food safety planning

University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension are offering a free three-session introduction on farm food safety planning from 5–6:30 p.m. Feb. 2,...
‘Your backyard as a conservation treasure’ with Peter McKinley

An online program hosted by Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust from 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, will explore how individual property owners can contribute to wildlife conservation on a larger...
Marine officials monitor mammal swimming in Mill Cove

Mill Cove received an unexpected guest Jan. 4. George Friant spotted something swimming in a strange circular manner around 10:30 a.m. He called the Department of Marine Resources and Marine Mammals...
Mammy’s Bakery a beacon of hope in pandemic

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’s,...
service employee minimum wage to be $6.08 per hour

Maine’s minimum wage increases to $12.15 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 Maine law (...
Gov. Mills extends Maine business curfew indefinitely

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...
38 Maine farmers receive Maine Farm Emergency Grants

Maine Farmland Trust (MFT) and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) announced today that 38 Maine farms have been awarded grants through the Maine Farm Emergency Grants program...