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Tourism & Recreation
Feds award $2.5M to BigRock Mountain for new chairlift
The existing lift is over 50 years old. The new lift will feature technology such as a touchscreen interface that eases system operations and maintenance.
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NY couple moves to Castine to buy coastal town's oldest summer hotel
September 12, 2022Overlooking Penobscot Bay, the inn was built in 1894 and has been a hotel its entire life and a focal point for the community.
September 12, 2022
Bob Smith remembered as hospitality industry icon
September 9, 2022The late Bob Smith was the longtime majority owner and self-proclaimed Lighthouse Keeper of Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, which he sold last year.
September 9, 2022
Downtown Waterville's Lockwood Hotel opens
September 7, 2022After serving as additional student housing during the pandemic, downtown Waterville's new Lockwood Hotel has finally opened to the public.
September 7, 2022
Maine airport chiefs bullish on Labor Day weekend, fall travel outlook
September 1, 2022Ahead of the long holiday weekend, Mainebiz touched base with with the heads of Maine's two biggest airports a steer on expected travel volumes.
September 1, 2022
Portland brewer plans year-round sales of top beer
Updated: September 6, 2022Nearly a decade after launching Maine Island Trail Ale to raise money for a local nonprofit, Rising Tide Brewing Co. plans to make the award-winning beer available year-round.
Updated: September 6, 2022
Storied Rockland schooner to end Maine operations
August 30, 2022The owner cited upcoming Coast Guard compliance and maintenance costs and losses of the 2020 season as becoming “a hill too big to climb.”
August 30, 2022
Portland pub reopens with new 'lease' on life
August 28, 2022Bull Feeney's, which closed in March 2020 and reopened with limited hours for three weeks that summer, has reopened with a renegotiated lease.
August 28, 2022
Bar Harbor’s Bluenose Inn proposes rebuild
August 28, 2022The proposal involves construction of a new four-story hotel building with 21 suites, compared with the original’s 45 guest rooms.
August 28, 2022
Portland music venue with a ‘unique niche’ sells to Colorado industry pro
August 24, 2022“My goal was to drive by in 10 years and still see it be successful,” said the seller. The buyer has a lifelong career in the industry.
August 24, 2022
Bangor concert venue is now in comeback mode
Updated: August 22, 2022The Maine Savings Amphitheater, which some people still call Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion despite a name change, is staging a comeback in the wake of 2020’s canceled season and a sharply curtailed one last year.
Updated: August 22, 2022
Maine's Queen City shines in international spotlight
Updated: August 22, 2022Bangor may not be Maine’s best-kept secret for much longer after a recent spotlight in Travel & Leisure magazine.
Updated: August 22, 2022
Happy Wheels revival is on a roll in Westbrook as long-awaited rink prepares to open
Updated: August 15, 2022A generations-old roller-skating rink that closed in December 2019 is reopening, although in a slightly different location. Some parts of the original site have been salvaged and are being reused.
Updated: August 15, 2022
Eastern Trail brings national kudos, and growing dollars, to southern Maine
Updated: August 24, 2022The trail was inducted this month into the Rail-Trail Hall of Fame, a group of only 35 other former railroad corridors honored for the economic value and other benefits they now bring as recreational space.
Updated: August 24, 2022
UMaine researchers, MDI tourism partners work to identify climate change effects
August 11, 2022Tourism providers view warming temperatures as a possible benefit with future risks, such as an increase in ticks and the unpredictability of extreme weather events.
August 11, 2022
Improved access to Katahdin Woods and Waters monument sought by King, Collins
August 11, 2022The region is seeing increasing foot traffic, in part due to the national monument. A southern boundary expansion is expected to improve access.
August 11, 2022
Brewer-based brewer says it will expand to Auburn
Updated: August 11, 2022Mason's Brewing Co. will anchor a mixed-use property to be developed along the Androscoggin River.
Updated: August 11, 2022
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