Penny Thompson, city manager for Caribou, has reached a significant milestone by graduating from the University of Oklahoma Economic Development Institute this October. Alongside her, Johanna Johnston, executive director of the Southern Aroostook Development Corporation, and Christina Kane-Gibson, Mi’kmaq Nation economic development director & interim CEO of Eltueg Corporation, are on track to complete the […]
The committee concluded that renewing districts that are nearing the end of their terms and continuing others, all with modifications in size and/or focus, for another 10 years will help the town keep and attract new business.
The steam plant contains 12,220 square feet of asbestos within the roof, 1,400 square feet within window glazing and 600 square feet in floor tiles and mastic.
Late last year nonprofit GrowSmart Maine launched the Building Community Strength program after securing a $304,636 grant from the USDA Rural Development Initiative and the American Farmland Trust.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine – Northern Maine Development Commission has worked collaboratively with the Maine Center for Entrepreneurship and Machias Savings Bank to bring the business accelerator program Top Gun to Aroostook County. Robert Clark, executive director of NMDC, said, “The Top Gun program is returning to Machias and Presque Isle and this is Maine’s best […]
The Aroostook Farm in Presque Isle is using $3 million from the University of Maine to transform a former storage building into an advanced research lab.
In addition to upgrading the wastewater and water treatment plants, the work also includes upgrading four wastewater pump stations and constructing four sludge drying beds.
The money will be spent on two Eastern Maine Railway mainlines that travel through Penobscot, Aroostook, Washington and Piscataquis counties.
The William F. King Jr. Downtown Champion Award will be given to Luke Dyer during the upcoming Maine Downtown Conference on Nov. 7, hosted in Biddeford by the Maine Development Foundation.
FORT KENT, Maine – The University of Maine at Fort Kent Board of Visitors is encouraging the public to attend a Business Breakfast that will take place on Friday, November 15 at 7:30 a.m. in the Nadeau Hall conference room on the UMFK campus. The topic of discussion for the breakfast will be “Untapped Resource […]
