NORTH ANSON — John Black has arranged his equipment around a recently empty dairy barn, neat piles of irrigation tubing, dozens of components, two shiny, 12-foot-tall satellite-guided tractors.  He’s got every-farmer woes — if only it hadn’t rained so much and he’d gotten that extra three weeks in the ground — and for the first […]

FREEPORT — L.L. Bean is poised to open its first store in Canada.  The Maine-based retailer announced Thursday that the 13,000-square-foot (1,210-sq. meter) store will open Aug. 23 in Oakville Place, just outside of Toronto.  The retailer announced last year that it would be looking to open stores in Canada over the next decade. It […]

Seeing their own ingenuity at work, employees at a Maine composites company cheered as a NASA lunar spaceship survived a recent test flight.  Fiber Materials Inc. of Biddeford developed an essential component of Ascent Abort-2, the safety system aboard the Orion spaceship, which is expected to bring humans to the moon in 2024. FMI has […]

HARPSWELL — The Interstate Lobster Inc. in Harpswell has been awarded $155,500 in funding from the Land for Maine’s Future Program, which will be used to demolish, replace and expand the wharf at 241 Ash Point Road.  The Land for Maine’s Future Program, under the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, distributed just over $1 million […]

El Camino, the funky Mexican cantina at 15 Cushing St. in Brunswick, has closed. The restaurant, which had a 15-year run, closed its doors in June after its owners decided it was time to simplify their lives and focus on their other restaurant, Salt Pine Social at 244 Front St. in Bath. “We’re still in […]

BRUNSWICK — A good vinegar is often the final element on a good dish that takes everything to the finish line, but for Brad Messier and Elizabeth Guilbault, a good vinegar is just the beginning.  The husband and wife team are the owners of West Maquoit Vinegar Works, and they believe vinegar is more than […]

BRUNSWICK — Eveningstar Cinema has been purchased by a Brunswick man who said he hopes to incorporate his knowledge of film and marketing to keep the theater going and growing.  Shaun Boyle acquired the business from former owner Barry Norman July 1, just a few months shy of its 40th anniversary. Boyle, a freelance corporate events producer […]

BRUNSWICK– bluShift Aerospace, a “small team of nerds” operating out of Brunswick Landing recently received a Small Business Innovation Research grant from NASA worth up to $125,000 to help them achieve their ultimate goal of “getting closer to the stars,” as CEO Sascha Deri put it.  The phase one grant will help the company develop […]