Nobleboro

Siblings Ben and Emily Davis envisioned boxes that could be adapted for a variety of uses, from retail pop-ups to food vendors to ticket booths.

The acquisition of 13 midcoast stores represents the first entry into Maine for Majors Management, which in the past three years has completed 17 deals in 13 states.

OpBox plans to use its $25,000 prize money to document and create content for its first OpBox Village, in South Boston, according to the company's co-founder, Ben Davis.

The Nobleboro-based startup, which recently raised $500,000 in expansion funds, creates mobile venues for the retail and hospitality industries and community infrastructure.

That figure was the recent median sales price for a single-family home in Maine. But with aging housing stock, and wide disparities among different communities across the state, what does $237,900 really get you?

Argyle, Bremen and Hudson are among seven communities targeted by a new round of infrastructure and planning grants.

Fifteen Maine nonprofits and municipalities were named recipients of grants aimed at improving the health and well-being of older adults while they continue to live in their communities.

LCI, a division of Lincolnville Telephone Family of Companies, said its new O.P.E.N. fiber optic network is now available to many homes and business in some Midcoast communities.

Harvesters taking oysters or hard-shell clams from the Damariscotta River or buying shellfish from harvesters working on the river are required to attend a training session to help combat Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacterium that inhabits brackish water, the Boothbay Register reported.

John Hanson is known for his ideas. Some of them are pretty weird. Like creating the World...