May 28, 2012 EditionEdition

Retail & Food Service

🔒Bargains, exchange rates drive Canadians to Maine to shop and stay

Late last October, James Gerety, general manager of the Bangor Mall, was driving on Bangor Mall Boulevard after leaving work, when he witnessed a Kodak moment: a sports utility vehicle […]
Arts & Culture

🔒TEDx evolves in third try

The latest offering from TEDxDirigo, the ambitious Portland-based volunteer effort modeled after the popular multidisciplinary online TED...
News

🔒Disclosing the details

Somewhere in the middle of editing Doug Rooks' fine cover piece on the changing landscape of Maine's...
Higher education

🔒Training for the hospitality industry gets a boost from three institutions

Consistently rated as the largest service sector industry worldwide, tourism is an especially important economic driver in...
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Retail & Food Service

🔒An expert in fireworks displays takes his wares to the people

A fixture on the Maine pyrotechnics scene for over 30 years, Steve Marson says he was surprised...
Real Estate & Construction

🔒An open attitude between developers and municipal officials generally leads to satisfactory results

“They are impossible to deal with.” It has been said about every town and city hall in...
Agriculture

🔒A new insurance law could help a growing number of tourism-based farms

When Wendy Sheriff and her husband, Mark, went looking for a lifestyle change six years ago, they...
Marketing & Media

🔒Maine’s daily newspapers grapple with a changing industry and a well-heeled newcomer

Times are tough for daily newspapers across the country, but Maine readers braced in March for the...
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Government & Politics

🔒$95M in bonds sent to governor

The Legislature recently approved $95 million in transportation, research and development, education, clean water and Land for...
Marketing & Media

🔒Online hotel reviews: Are they a distraction or a valuable tool?

When I had my first experience with online reviews on sites such as TripAdvisor and Yelp, it...
News

🔒Maine should rectify its dearth of roadside markers and spotlight its unique natives

Have you ever been driving along a lonely road in the middle of nowhere when you come...
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