February 23, 2015 Edition

Agriculture

🔒Chelsea Wagner: Marketing Hannaford’s buy-local program

Hannaford Supermarkets saw its sales volume of locally sourced produce rise 35% last year alone, mirroring a consumer trend toward farm-to-table foods. Though the supermarket had been selling a variety […]

Health care

🔒Greater Portland’s push to improve the health informatics field has high stakes

Health informatics. It's not the most straight-forward term, but once you learn that it means the development,...

Banking & Finance

🔒Old bank, new times: Bangor Savings strategy calls for southern expansion and new technology

As the newest captain at the helm of a 163-year-old ship, Bangor Savings Bank President Bob Montgomery-Rice...

Health care

🔒Health care ‘pioneer’: Beacon Health ACO tackles health care’s ‘triple aim’ challenge

A pilot program launched in 2012 by Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems to improve patient care while reducing...

Higher education

🔒As public funding for R&D slows, universities feel pinch

University spending on research and development rose by less than half a percent nationally in fiscal year...

Economic development

🔒Like the real estate motto, Maine offers location, location, location

During hard times or hard winters, Maine and Mainers chug along. Yet there are always those asking...

Energy & Utilities

🔒Local power: Peregrine Turbine’s new approach to distributed energy generation

When Peregrine Turbine Technologies LLC first asked Mid-South Engineering Co. for help with its new turbine engine,...

News

🔒Newsworthy people and performances

New hiresThe Keller Williams Greater Portland Market Center in Portland hired Marcella Ade as a real estate...

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