Eastern Maine Development Corporation Written by Robert Hoshowsky Lee Umphrey likes to live in the present, not the past. President and CEO of Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC), Umphrey prefers to discuss...
The company stated that these partnerships, which have developed over time and have now been formalized, are crucial for the development of its site. Photo: Great Northern Salmon. Marta Negrete...
December 6, 2025 BANGOR — Eastern Maine Development Corporation recently presented the 2025 annual awards to recognize community and staff leaders. Board Chair Dennis Damon started the meeting with a...
By Laurie Schreiber When Clint Chase wanted to relocate and build out a new shop for his solo business, Chase Small Craft, he connected with the Midcoast Council of Governments...
Maine Public | By Ari Snider Published November 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM EST Maine’s two Job Corps centers — in Bangor and Limestone — are once again accepting new applicants after...
Author: Drew Peters Published: 6:34 PM EST November 20, 2025 Updated: 7:49 PM EST November 20, 2025 MAINE, USA — Maine’s two Job Corps centers are once again accepting students, following a months-long...
Millworkers return to the Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill in Lincoln in 2008 after a lunch break. Nearly two decades later, town leaders are preparing for the site's future by...
by BDN Community American Swiss Foundation launched the inaugural “Innovation Forum: Developing the Workforce of Tomorrow” at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Maine Commissioner of Labor Laura Fortman joined...
Ten of the 17 candidates registered with the state weighed in on their future plans, Trump administration cuts and investment priorities during a forum hosted by Health Care for Maine...
Premiums are on the rise and subsidy cuts are looming. That’s why health care groups gathered this week to discuss how to keep coverage affordable. Author: Drew Peters Published: 7:49 PM EDT...
By Abigail Beaucaire on September 29, 2025 In late August, Old Town made headlines across Maine after releasing plans of their new partnership with the location analytics company Placer.ai. This artificial intelligence...
Spectrum | BY David Ledford Maine PUBLISHED 3:07 PM ET Aug. 19, 2025 BANGOR — A tax credit that has lowered healthcare premiums for thousands of Mainers is set to expire at...
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07/14/2025 Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC) is pleased to announce the continued success of its Economic Recovery Implementation Hub program, having awarded $1.4 million in grant funding to 54 small...
Eastern Maine Development Corporation created a roadmap to tackle Maine’s housing crisis by promoting affordable housing and reforming zoning laws. Author: Brianna BushPublished: 6:37 PM EDT July 16, 2025Updated: 8:18 PM EDT July...
Bangor Daily News – by Kasey Turman Bangor’s legal scene, and the community as a whole, will soon feel a void when Eaton Peabody shuts its doors for good on June...
NewsCenter Maine Members of other Maine Department of Labor programs say the decision could hinder workforce development efforts across the state. Author: Drew Peters Published: 6:43 PM EDT May 27, 2025 Updated: 7:30...
Dan grew up in Bangor and after graduating from Bangor High School, he attended the University of Maine where he received a degree in Public Administration. Since 1996, he has...
Bangor Daily News – Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli State environmental officials are investigating the recent demolition of an asbestos-containing building in Patten, which may have skirted state regulations and also came as...
Nieman Reports – Jon Marcus Old-style newspaper boxes flank the entrance. From beyond them comes the smell of ink and newsprint. When the presses roll, the floor vibrates. The building...
Bangor Daily News A Carmel construction company hopes to break ground this spring on 16 new apartments in the small Bangor suburb of Levant. The project will add more units...
Piscataquis Observer BANGOR — Applications for the next round of Eastern Maine Development Corporation’s Economic Recovery Hub grants are now open. Eligible small businesses to apply for funding to support...
Bangor Daily News Eastern Maine Development Corporation and the Maine Dairy Industry Association have joined forces to support the vitality of Maine’s dairy industry. This partnership addresses key challenges facing...
Maine Public – November 12, 2024 Plans to revitalize a Greenville-area ski mountain have gone belly-up after developers pulled the plug. Now, the mountain is for sale, and the town...
Bangor, Maine, October 9, 2024 – The Greater Bangor Recreation Economy for Rural Communities (GBRERC) has received $195,000 for Branding, Market Research, and Marketing. The grant was awarded by the Maine...
By Christopher Paradis, Eastern Maine Development Corp. The state of Maine’s 350-plus agencies, departments and commissions utilize three primary organizational units to buy more than $144 million dollars in commodities...
Amy Collinsworth, Katahdin-region economic development director for EMDC. Shares information about upcoming “Great American Solar Eclipse” coming to the region in April 8.
Contributed • January 22, 2024 GUILFORD — Lewiston-based Androscoggin Bank has opened a business development office in Guilford. The office, located in the former Guilford Medical Building, will be open by appointment...
BANGOR — Eastern Maine Development Corporation, in collaboration with Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development is announcing a commitment of $424,000 in grants to support 15 Maine businesses that...
Lee Umphrey is the president and CEO of Eastern Maine Development Corp., which is responsible for developing a comprehensive economic development plan for eastern Maine. The economic health of eastern...
Eastern Maine Development Corporation recently launched the Penobscot and Piscataquis Regional Planning Commission, attended by state and regional leaders representing both counties. This commission was the result of coordinated efforts...
EMDC is excited to introduce the Economic Recovery Implementation Hub, an initiative designed to support Maine’s emerging businesses. We understand that new ventures face unique challenges especially in the wake...
Bangor Daily News BANGOR — Eastern Maine Development Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the Economic Recovery Implementation HUB program, in collaboration with DECD. This program supports and...
On May 23, 2023 the Eastern Maine Development Corporation hosted it 12th Annual Grants Conference at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine. Conference attendees from across the state were...
BDN Community, Bangor Daily News LINCOLN — PK Floats of Lincoln has been named the Eastern Maine Development Corporation’s Business of the Year for 2022. The honor was presented to...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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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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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...
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...
When it comes to starting a business, Maine gets strong marks in a state ranking released Tuesday by personal finance website WalletHub. Maine came in at No. 13 in the...
PORTLAND — Facing an aging population and a labor shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Maine business, faith, education, civic and immigrant leaders held a virtual forum to urge U.S....
On July 1, 2021, the Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC) released their new Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS), 2021-2025. It identifies goals and objectives for the Eastern Maine region that guide economic growth and...
Eastern Maine Development Corporation updates its Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy every five years using U.S. Economic Development Administration guidelines. The CEDS identifies goals and objectives to guide economic growth and regional resiliency in...
The four counties overseen by the Eastern Maine Development Corp. have many avenues of opportunity to stengthen their economy in the next five years, but also have some big challenges...
Facing an aging population and a labor shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, on Friday, June 18, 2021, Maine business, faith, education, civic and immigrant leaders held a virtual forum...
T he federal government has awarded $10.6 million to seven community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, around Maine. The money, from the U.S. Treasury Department’s CDFI Rapid Response Program, is...
BANGOR — The Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC) is working to keep young adults in Maine. The group’s Young Mainer’s Workforce Academy connects people ages 16 to 24 to paid...
EAST MILLINOCKET — Eastern Maine Community College will be holding a nursing program information session at the Katahdin Higher Education Center on Tuesday, June 1 from 3–5 p.m. Anyone who...
People in recovery, considering recovery, family members, allies and professionals are all invited to attend an upcoming series of resource fairs being hosted by Helping Hands with Heart, a Piscataquis...
Ever since the Maine craft beer boom began in earnest about a decade ago, the majority of the more than 100 new breweries that have opened since then have been...
Eastern Maine Development Corp. has named Peter Jamieson as Katahdin Region economic development director, replacing Michael Elliott, who stepped down in February. Jamieson, who has been director of the Katahdin Chamber...
Eastern Maine Development Corporation welcomes new Senior Accountant Lisandro Jimenez. Jimenez has seven years of experience working in accounting. He holds an MBA from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville,...
Millinocket resident Peter Jamieson has been selected by Eastern Maine Development Corporation and the Katahdin Region Development Board to serve as Katahdin Region economic development director. Jamieson will provide direct...
BANGOR — The Bangor Art Society is hosting its 2021 Open Juried Show at the Eastern Maine Development Cooperation. Teddi-Jann Covell, president of the Bangor Art Society, said this is...
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – Works from artists throughout the community are on display in a bit of an unconventional but beautiful way. The Bangor Art Society is holding its second...
“We want to honor the history of this property while making good use of it as an economic engine for the region,” says Kathryn Toppan, one half of the...
GREENVILLE/BANGOR — The Finance Authority of Maine has approved $135 million in bonds to develop a ski resort in the Moosehead Lake area. The President and CEO of Eastern Maine...
AUBURN — The Androscoggin County Commission received a presentation Wednesday from Susan Cerini, the director of workforce services for Eastern Maine Development Corp. Cerini spelled out the services her organization...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Angus King, I-Maine announced that the Economic Development Administration is investing $280,000 to support existing small businesses, attract new ones, and...
GO Lab had spent three years putting together a plan to produce wood fiber insulation at the former Madison paper mill. All that was left was to finalize financing for...
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