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The president and CEO of the retailers' trade group sits down with Mainebiz to talk about how his industry, one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, is also weathering it. And Picard is already thinking about the holiday shopping season.
In Stonington, a town synonymous with the iconic Maine industry, the lobstering season almost wasn't. Instead, it thrived, but not in the way lobstermen there anticipated eight months ago.
The Maine State Prison in Thomaston was torn down in 2002, and the town bought the 15.6-acre site in 2005. Developers have floated Ideas for building there, but today prospects for doing so are more uncertain than ever.
Revenue at Maine's hotels, motels, restaurants and bars has plummeted during the pandemic. In the midcoast and Downeast parts of the state, businesses are coping, sometimes more successfully than they anticipated, in a season unlike any other.
