November 2, 2015 EditionEdition

🔒Three steps to facilitate teamwork that will produce results

Getting the individuals to do their parts, and getting the group to properly manage its relationships, is the definition of group leadership.

🔒Maine’s small airports provide lifeline to rural businesses

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.

🔒For northern Maine businesses, transportation infrastructure is key

Business that have operations north of Bangor or outside the I-95 corridor are well acquainted with the frustrations of arranging shipping.

🔒Organic Valley creates opportunities for Aroostook County dairy farmers

Organic Valley, the Wisconsin-based organic farmers' cooperative, has been quietly building a cluster of organic dairy farms in Maine's northernmost county.
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🔒Businesses act on climate change, divest fossil fuel investments

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.

🔒Portland area sees spate of bank expansions

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.

🔒Former Wall Street banker transforms Arrows Restaurant into The Velveteen Habit

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.

🔒Newsworthy people and performances

New hiresMaine Adaptive, a nonprofit in Newry that provides and promotes year-round adaptive recreation for people with...
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🔒IDEXX founder David Shaw on his investment philosophy

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.
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