Knox County

Maine's minimum wage is well below Seattle's rate of $21.30 an hour, but higher than both New Hampshire and Vermont.

Charles French will oversee the organization’s strategic priorities in climate, marine economy and community capacity.

Proceeds from the sales are invested into upgrades at other locations. In Portland, the bank had maxxed out its downtown facility, which resulted in a lease in the Old Port.

The midcoast has had a number of key developments of late, including the sale of a major boatyard, a yacht launch by a significant boatbuilder and debate over housing for the “missing middle.”

The site of a general store destroyed by fire in 2023 will be rebuilt as a restaurant and collaborative facility. An inn will be repurposed as a research facility and student housing.

An acre of the former dairy farm will go to workforce housing development. Five acres will be preserved as part of an adjacent conservation area.

The firm’s workboat division was selected to design and build three solar-powered ferries with electric outboards, funded through a $4.2 million federal grant.

Rockport Marine built the yacht Ouzel to the specifications of Langan Design Partners, of Newport, R.I., with interior design by Mark Whiteley Design, of Lymington, U.K.

Construction of two affordable housing developments has finished up in Rockland and Augusta — part of the push in both cities and across Maine to tackle the shortage of homes.

Rockland-based cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce was named a 2025 MacArthur fellow in October.