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October 2, 2006 EditionEdition

Unequal protection? | Critics of chain-store

Portland-area aficionados of Hooters restaurants recently were dealt a blow when city councilors reacted to the prospect...

Space race | Several developers are vying to build hotels in Bangor, but can the market support all those new rooms?

Today, abandoned railroad tracks are all that run alongside a prime stretch of riverfront land in Bangor....

Arts education | A talk with John Rohman about Bangor’s quest to catalog its cultural assets and poll residents about what additions they’d like...

Bangor's downtown has seen a creative renaissance of sorts over the past 10 years, with museums like...

Business vision | A chat with Bill Nadeau, founder of Affordable Eyes in Auburn.

Founded: February 2006 Employees: Three Startup costs: $20,000 Projected revenue, year one: $80,000 Projected revenue, year two: $120,000 Contact: 333-6927 229 Center St.,...
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A sense of place | Harold Clossey takes over as executive director of the Sunrise County Economic Council

What to do about Washington County? It's been the subject of several task forces and studies, but...

Battleground | Wal-Mart says its new Bangor plan avoids the environmental issues that derailed an earlier proposal, but opponents have other concerns

Three years ago, the state Board of Environmental Protection delivered the final rejection that scuttled a proposed...

Nine ways of looking at the racino | The slot machines have been turning in Bangor for nearly a year. We set out to...

The parking lots at Hollywood Slots are almost always full. On that much, at least, everyone can...

Spreading the news | From his Bangor base, Bill Buckley oversees U.S. and international operations of Coffee News

People spend countless hours every day waiting, whether it's for a table at a restaurant, in line...
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Name check | A look inside the state’s signature-verification process for citizens’ initiatives

For Portland City Clerk Linda Cohen, poring over stacks of pages filled with thousands of signatures can...
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