The seller of ACA individual insurance was $3.7 million in the black for the first quarter after two years of big losses.
Source: Portland Press Herald
Residents voted “No” on six referendum questions this month, prohibiting all varieties of recreational cannabis businesses and making the rural York County town the first in southern Maine to become a “dry town” in a state with newly legalized recreational marijuana.
Source: Portland Press Herald
A lawsuit accuses a former employee of forging Lilley’s signature on checks to take more than $800,000 over five years.
Source: Portland Press Herald
A day after the start of the 60-day comment period on President Trump’s executive order calling for a review of national monuments created since 1996, three members of Maine’s congressional delegation joined with local business leaders in voicing opposition to overturning the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.
Source: Mainebiz.biz
The property located at 226 Gorham Road in Scarborough — comprising a 14,100-square-foot storage facility and 2,400-square-foot commercial building on 1.9 acres — was never on the market.
But that didn’t stop F.O. Bailey Real Estate associate broker Thomas Gadbois from approaching the owners to see if they’d be willing to sell.
Source: Mainebiz.biz
Hinckley Yachts is planning a 19,500-square-foot expansion at its Southwest Harbor service yard.The Mount Desert Islander reported the investment is expected to be $1 million. The company produces high-end luxury yachts at its Trenton plant, runs a service yard and marina in Southwest Harbor, and has additional service yards in Northeast Harbor and elsewhere along the East Coast.
Source: Mainebiz.biz
A Poland Spring representative said he will push his company to build a $50 million bottling plant in the Lincoln area — a crucial but far from final step in the company’s expansion planning.
Recent well tests showed that the Lincoln Water District can easily anchor a bottling plant, Senior Natural Resource Manager Thomas Brennan said during a district board meeting on Tuesday. Poland Spring has been testing wells and scouting plant locations in the Lincoln area since March.
Source: Maine Public
The Callahan mine in Brooksville has a $500,000-a-year price tag for Mainers and estimates of its remediation cost have ballooned to $45 million.
Source: Portland Press Herald
Judge John Woodcock Jr. plans telephone conferences with Portland Pipe Line Corp. and city lawyers to clarify the court’s jurisdiction in the 2-year-old case.
Source: Portland Press Herald
The bill, which won support from environmental groups, would also make companies set aside enough money to cover contamination after a mine’s closure.
Source: – Portland Press Herald