Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News Stephen Buckley, who installs solar panels for Synergy Solar, is the type of unconventional worker the state of Maine is targeting to fill its workforce...
Laurie Schreiber, Mainbiz Ayurt campground with a village theme opened in the small coastal town of Tremont, and already has 80 reservations coming from as far as Israel. “One of...
BDN Community, Bangor Daily News BANGOR – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding Eastern Maine Development Corporation $1.5 million for assessing and funding cleanup activities at brownfield sites. This...
Contributor, Piscataquis Observer BANGOR – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding Eastern Maine Development Corporation $1.5 million for assessing and funding cleanup activities at brownfield sites. This award is...
Contributor, Piscataquis Observer BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to name Dr. Laurie Osher as its community resilience specialist. Dr. Osher, a Maine state representative representing Orono, will...
BDN Community, Bangor Daily News BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to name Dr. Laurie Osher as its community resilience specialist. Dr. Osher, a Maine state representative representing...
BDN Community, Bangor Daily News BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation was awarded $600,000 to provide workforce development services to young people and businesses in Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and...
Brian Sullivan, WABI 5 Click here to view the video coverage. BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – Works of art from across the region are on display in Bangor all this month....
BDN Community, Bangor Daily News BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to name Amy Collinsworth as Katahdin Region economic development director. Collinsworth will provide direct services to the...
Laurie Schreiber, Mainebiz The new head of a regional development program in northern Maine views younger generations as key to the area’s resurgence. “Growing up in the Katahdin region, I...
Valerie Royzman, Bangor Daily News The public will have a chance to weigh in on the proposed year-round ski resort in Piscataquis County — potentially influencing the next steps of...
Lia Russell, Bangor Daily News Rebecca Ladd divided her attention between filling out an application to become a child care provider and making sure her 18-month-old daughter, Isabella, didn’t wander...
Valerie Royzman, Bangor Daily News GREENVILLE, Maine — Community members and officials packing a public hearing Tuesday debated whether a proposal to redevelop a partially defunct ski area in Piscataquis...
Kim Wilson, Journey Magazine What does it mean to be a recovery-friendly workplace in Maine? “Part of who we are is to help the community, people and businesses to be...
BDN Community, Bangor Daily News BANGOR — Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to appoint Leesah Patt as its new Disadvantaged Business Services specialist. In this role, she will provide...
Piscataquis Observer BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to appoint Leesah Patt as its new Disadvantaged Business Services specialist. In this role, she will provide training and support...
Piscataquis Observer BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to appoint Madeline Bradfield to the newly created role of director of youth services. Bradfield will lead the youth workforce...
Bangor Daily News, Community Page BANGOR – Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to appoint Madeline Bradfield to the newly created role of director of youth services. Bradfield will lead...
Kimberly Morrison, Bangor Daily News As the opioid epidemic impacts the unemployment rates and vacant jobs in Maine, part of Eastern Maine Development Corporation’s (EMDC) focus is to assist people...
Thomas Noonan Bangor Daily News In my role helping communities for Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC), I see firsthand how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated a lot of issues in the...
Carly D’Eon, News Center Maine Click here to view the video that aired with this news piece. The funds will help to address transportation accessibility issues in two counties. MAINE,...
Staff, Mainebiz Affordable, climate-friendly transportation in Piscataquis and Penobscot counties will be the focus of a new project that has received $450,000 in federal money. Eastern Maine Development Corp. in...
Valerie Royzman, Piscataquis Observer The Eastern Maine Development Corp. and area partners will use more than $445,000 in federal funding to study transportation options that will better connect Piscataquis and...
Valerie Royzman, Bangor Daily News The Eastern Maine Development Corp. and area partners will use more than $445,000 in federal funding to study transportation options that will better connect Piscataquis...
Carly D’Eon, News Center Maine Click here to view the video of this news piece. BANGOR, Maine — The fight to close the gender pay gap is a nation-wide effort....
Laurie Schreiber, Mainebiz Caribou native Taylor Nadeau was in his mid-20s, working a routine 9-to-5. “I was kind of getting annoyed with it,” he says. “I thought there had to...
Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public Below is a transcription of the audio segment. To hear the recording, visit Maine Public. For more than three decades, Big Moose Mountain outside of Greenville,...
US News SACO, Maine (AP) — A charitable foundation in Maine is giving out a series of grants to help with transportation for older residents of the state. Maine has...
Bangor Daily News BANGOR – At Eastern Maine Development Corporation ’s annual board meeting, EMDC announced its 2021 awards recipients. Two honorees were recognized for each of the three award...
Bangor Daily News, Valerie Royzman When a Knox County developer and his partners began work to get a year-round ski resort in Piscataquis County off the ground more than three years...
Bangor Daily News Since November 2020, the Town of Island Falls partnered with Eastern Maine Development Corporation to help develop its comprehensive plan. The plan was recently approved by the...
WABI TV BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – Local employers struggling with the challenge of finding workers got together Wednesday morning to search for solutions. The Bangor Area Chamber of Commerce led...
Bangor Daily News WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eastern Maine Development Corporation, based in Bangor, has received a 2021 Aliceann Wohlbruck Impact Award from the National Association of Development Organizations for the...
Mainebiz 5 Maine workforce training programs may get $4.6M in federal funds Five projects aimed at growing Maine’s workforce, in industries ranging from logging to wind turbine safety, may share $4.6...
An old, abandoned ski lodge in Greenville is about to get new life through a reinvestment and public redevelopment initiative valued at more than $130 million. Supporters say the project...
By Peter Van Allen Northern Maine’s long-term economic viability has always had a vulnerable side, with the ever-changing situation with logging and paper mills, but it took on new importance...
Bangor Daily News EMDC provided technical assistance to 660 businesses and non-profits and distributed a total of $28.4M since Nov. 13 Phase 2 of funding from the Maine Economic Recovery...
Eastern Gazette, Sheila D. Grant Several towns in Penobscot and Piscataquis have been invited to appoint two representatives each to serve on an advisory committee for a new Regional Planning...
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Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public Below is a transcription of an audio release. To hear the recording, visit Maine Public. Like so many parts of Maine, Greenville has experienced an inward migration...
BDN Staff reports, Bangor Daily News A massive spending bill that passed in the U.S. Senate on Thursday will bring more than $200 million to Maine for dozens of projects...
Fox 23, WGME PORTLAND (WGME) — Maine is getting more than $200 million for more than 100 projects in the state. Senator Susan Collins says the money is for 105...
Valerie Royzman, Bangor Daily News The cost of a new ski lift has shot up $1 million in just six months, said Perry Williams, developer of a proposed year-round ski...
Valerie Royzman, Bangor Daily News The Maine Land Use Planning Commission is waiting for information from the developers of a proposed $113.5 million year-round ski resort on Big Moose Mountain...
Susan Farley, Fox Bangor STATEWIDE — This week is National Entrepreneurship Week, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development is investing more than $1 million in loan and...
Evan Houk, Morning Sentinel Rangeley-based Big Lake Development LLC is among the groups moving to relaunch ski operations on Big Moose Mountain as part of a project that backers say...
Valerie Royzman, Bangor Daily News The developer and partners involved with a proposed year-round ski resort on Big Moose Mountain in Piscataquis County have asked the state not to hold a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2021 Contact: Matthew Felling (King) 202-257-7345 Annie Clark (Collins) 202-224-2523 Maine lost an estimated 636 lives—a new record— in 2021 due to overdoses WASHINGTON, D.C....
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Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News The organization that runs most Bangor-area sober homes for people recovering from addiction opened its 10th house on Friday, just 3 ½ years after the group opened...
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