Category: Success Stories

Lots of different events and festivals in Bangor have come and gone over the years — the KahBang Festival, the World’s Largest Garage Sale and the YMCA Spring Fair, to...

A developer seeks to avoid paying 70 percent of the new property taxes it expects to owe the town of Bucksport when it builds what looks to be the state’s...

The Bangor City Council has agreed to provide $250,000 in loans to Soft Touch Tissue & Paper, a new manufacturing business that’s opening on outer Hammond Street with the goal of producing...

By Ernie Clark, BDN Staff • July 9, 2019 1:00 am Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil have been the brightest of stars during an otherwise frustrating first half of the 2019 baseball season...

By Laurie Schreiber, MaineBiz  • July 2, 2019 Micki Sumpter, who has been involved since 1997 in Ellsworth’s economic development, is turning her attention to the town of Mount Desert. Sumpter served...

By Lauren Abbate, BDN Staff • June 28, 2019 1:00 am The idea behind Blue Barren Distillery came three years ago the same way a lot of great ideas come about: over a...

By Lindsay Putnam and Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff • June 27, 2019 6:00 am Nearly five years after the Verso Paper mill in Bucksport closed and a scrap metal recycling company bought it, the...

A new manufacturing business will soon open in Bangor with the goal of producing tissues, napkins and other paper products. The startup business, Soft Touch Tissue & Paper, will initially...

A Massachussetts-based financial service business is expanding to the Katahdin region, and will add up to 30 jobs by the end of next year. Medway native Doug Snowman, CEO and...

Nearly 20 years after the idea was first proposed, Brewer’s Riverwalk — a mile-long walkway along the Penobscot River stretching from Veteran’s Park on Penobscot Street to Hardy Street —...

It was still anyone’s guess Friday exactly where on Maine’s jagged, 3,000-mile coastline a Dutch company is considering starting a land-based fish farm to raise yellowtail, a high-value fin fish...

BANGOR — Working in collaboration with the Katahdin Higher Education Center, Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC) is connecting new Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) with potential employers and ensuring a smooth...

A website recently dubbed Dover-Foxcroft “the most boring town in Maine,” but home buyers apparently haven’t gotten the memo. The algorithm the designation was based on — population, average age...

More focus on the northern towns of the Katahdin region, more places to eat and better infrastructure are some of the thing Mike Elliot hopes will happen soon. For the...

Recovery, hope and opportunity were the themes of today’s discussion with our friends and partners at Northeastern Workforce Development Board during their quarterly meeting on June 12th. Stephen Fay, retired...

In an unassuming building just off Route 2 in Hermon there’s a new business that offers an experience that proponents say can ease a troubled mind and body and make...

Bagel Central, an eatery in downtown Bangor with a long history and loyal clientele, has changed ownership, effective New Year’s Day. According to the new owner, not much will change....

BATH, Maine — The U.S. Navy has awarded Bath Iron Works a $26.4 million contract to provide planning yard services for the DDG 1000 “stealth” guided missile destroyer. If all...

The town of Lincoln is moving quickly to reap the rewards of a new federal tax break program that’s meant to lure investment to economically depressed parts of the country....

The company planning to build an indoor salmon farm in Bucksport — Maine’s second such facility — hopes to begin construction next spring. Whole Oceans intends to file, or has...

The commission charged with commemorating Maine’s upcoming bicentennial is ready to begin planning the celebration. The Maine Bicentennial Commission chaired by Democratic state Sen. William Diamond will get the process...

Developers of the former Great Northern Paper mill site in Millinocket will get federal aid to implement infrastructure improvements that will help them establish an industrial park. The U.S. Secretary...

BUCKSPORT, Maine — Richard Rotella wouldn’t mind if seafood became the town’s marquee industry. Two seafood processing facilities are opening at the town’s industrial park that promise to create about...

BANGOR, MAINE – Husson University is continuing to grow. At a time when other private colleges throughout New England have been closing, Husson will enroll the largest incoming class in...

A new national report looking at growth trends in women-owned firms between 2002 and 2018 puts Maine at the top of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in...