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“It’s been a roller coaster on the price we receive,” ranging from 25 cents to 75 cents per pound in recent years, said one producer. Expenses include labor, field inputs and honeybee hives.

A total of $2,027,149 in funding has been awarded to 10 Maine agribusinesses and farms through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Value-Added Producer Grant Program.

The future of the downtown Waterville food store Barrels Community Market is uncertain.

The Rockland City Council voted unanimously on Monday to give initial authorization to the sale of a property in the city's industrial park to an as-yet-unnamed manufacturing firm.

Maine was among 11 states getting part of the $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's State Energy Program grants, which were announced Sept. 15.

A car packing 12,000 horsepower and 6,500 pounds of thrust hopes to steal the show at the Great State of Maine Air Show over Labor Day weekend in Brunswick.

The new Portland Science Center, scheduled to open Sept. 4 on Maine Wharf after a couple months' delay, expects to draw about 100,000 visitors to the “Body Worlds” exhibit, according to organizers.

Portland law firm Verrill Dana recently set up a craft beverage industry group with eight attorneys and soon plans to announce another group with 12 attorneys focused on increasing North Atlantic and Arctic trade and commerce that is expected once shipping routes open due to the melting Arctic Ocean.

A representative of AIM Development LLC, a subsidiary of American Iron and Metal, the Montreal-­based metal recycling firm that purchased the former Verso Paper mill in Bucksport, presented demolition and redevelopment plans at a public meeting Wednesday.

The parent company of Camden National Bank has reached an agreement to buy the Bank of Maine...