Manchester

Susan Howland joins Allen Insurance and Finance after having held senior leadership roles at MBNA, Wayfarer Marine in Camden, the Penobscot Bay YMCA and Maine Sport in Rockport.

With cannabis companies budding on Main Streets across Maine, one small town illustrates how the businesses are finding their spots in a crowded marketplace.

Maine’s largest physician organization is asking businesses to require masking for employees and the public and to post signs explaining that masks are required, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge.

Twenty-foot-tall figures heralded the entrance to the band Phish’s IT Festival in 2003. The University of Maine at Presque Isle later acquired the figures, which now need restoration. A cabin master who’s a passionate Phish fan is thrilled by the opportunity.

Shovels are in the ground at job sites across the state, while Maine's building businesses are making news.

The Manchester select board will hold a public hearing on a liquor license request by Kennebec Cabin Co., featured in the "Maine Cabin Masters" TV show; Gardiner will consider the first phase of a 68-unit apartment and condo project; Cape Elizabeth's long-awaited town green gets underway.

Three banks, a manufacturing startup, an educator who champions financial literacy and the state's trade association for loggers were all honored Thursday evening by the Finance Authority of Maine.

Grossman Marketing Group, a fourth-generation, print and promotional products company in Somerville, Mass., has acquired Premier Marketing Group of Manchester. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Although the drought that has afflicted Maine farmers for much of the summer has been bad news for crops like lettuce and broccoli, the state's upcoming apple season appears to have weathered the storm, or lack thereof.

The assets of J&S Oil — eight Xpress Stop convenience stores with gas stations, two Express Lube auto service stations, three Ultra Clean car washes, a wholesale fuel supply division and a transportation logistics business — have been acquired by Nouria Energy Corp. of Worcester, Mass.