Condos might get a bad rap, “but done right, they are one of the best ways to offer ownership opportunities and keep costs down,” said Maine Working Homes’s co-founder, Merritt Carey.
ScrapDogs Community Compost has won a new client through a partnership agreement with the Owls Head, South Thomaston and Thomaston Solid Waste Corp. The Camden startup says its niche is based on the underutilization of an everyday product.
The waste cooperative boards of the Rockport-based Mid-Coast Solid Waste Corporation and the three-town cooperative serving Thomaston, South Thomaston and Owls Head voted separately last week in recommending that the communities enter into a contract with Portland-based ecomaine.
As part of the state's conservation plan to conserve and rebuild the scallop resource, the state Department of Marine Resources said it is closing Cobscook Bay, the most productive scallop fishing area in Maine, MPBN reported.