Eighty-five years after Prohibition ended in 1933, voters in Penobscot have decided it's time to allow hard liquor to be sold in their Hancock County town of slightly more than 1,200 residents.
The Taunton Bay Oyster Co. has filed an application with the state for a 10-year aquaculture lease to grow up to 4 million oysters on three sites totaling 23.7 acres in Northern Bay in Penobscot.
A federal judge Wednesday ordered Mallinckrodt Manufacturing Co. to pay to develop a detailed cleanup plan for mercury in the Penobscot River in what could potentially become one of the largest and costliest environmental remediation projects in Maine history.
The Northern Border Regional Commission will award $1,356,000 in grant funding to improve local infrastructure and to encourage private sector investments in six Maine communities.
U.S. Sen. Angus King announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded $5.5 million in grant funding to support several rural health care centers in Maine.