Freeport based outdoor retailer L.L.Bean is expanding its Outdoor Discovery Programs to Pineland Farms in New Gloucester. L.L.Bean first offered mountain biking programs on the trails at Pineland in 2017 and will expand to include fly fishing and archery this spring and summer, along with cross-country skiing and snowshoeing next winter. Catch-and-release fly fishing programs […]

You wouldn’t expect a global company that serves the neuroscience community to be headquartered in rural Maine. And you wouldn’t expect that company to provide a daycare facility and community gym right on-site. And you wouldn’t expect the owner of such a company to eschew the let’s-position-the-company-to-go-public-or-be-bought-out-so-we-can-make-millions mindset of today’s entrepreneurs. Brunswick resident Fred Haer, […]

The Department of Homeland Security is poised to release up to 30,000 additional visas for foreign seasonal workers to fill vacant jobs across the country, including many in Maine’s thriving summer tourism industry. Visa-holders can only work in non-agricultural positions, and typically take relatively low-paying jobs in hotels, restaurants, landscaping companies and seafood processing businesses. […]

Natalie DiBenedetto, owner of Figgy’s Takeout and Catering at 722 Congress St. in Portland, won $10,000 Tuesday night on the Food Network show “Chopped.” Skillet fried chicken is the anchor of the Figgy’s menu, so DiBenedetto was happy to discover that one of the mystery ingredients she had too cook with on the show was […]

Happy Spring, everyone!  2019 has already had a tremendous start with many projects and events.  Between now and the start of summer (whether you mark that as Memorial Day or the Summer Equinox of June 20) there are dozens or more activities for you to enjoy as citizens and for businesses to participate in to […]

Saturday night started out as a typical evening at Silver Street Tavern for waitress Samantha Clark. She had just gotten back from a break when her co-worker, Zack Denis, asked her to take over a table of two people, a man and his wife. Denis had just taken their drink and dinner order. Clark, 21, […]