For firms in some of Maine's rural areas, small airports are essential for connecting them to business centers elsewhere, allowing the firms to stay competitive.
Organic Valley, the Wisconsin-based organic farmers' cooperative, has been quietly building a cluster of organic dairy farms in Maine's northernmost county.
Political leaders and businesses are taking action in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December, which aims to come to a legally binding and international agreement on climate change.
Bangor Savings Bank's $10 million project relocating its Fore Street branch in Portland to Middle Street is one of several recent or planned bank expansions in southern Maine.
Last year, after a decade of working on Wall Street, Benjamin Goldman realized his lifelong goal of opening a restaurant, buying a four-acre property that for 25 years housed Arrows Restaurant, a fine-dining destination that closed in 2013.
Toward the end of his time at IDEXX Laboratories Inc., founder David Shaw set up Black Point Group LLC as a vehicle to invest in other companies. That was in 2000. Now, the investment firm has a portfolio with some 20 companies throughout the United States.