Bowdoinham

One Maine farm finds that investment in irrigation — including buried water lines, frost-free hydrants and a mobile pumping station — is essential to overcoming challenges of climate change and unreliable precipitation.

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 funding, to be matched by the recipients own money, will pay for equipment, infrastructure and other necessities to increase the farms' sales to wholesalers.

Eight towns and regions in the state will share $731,775 in grants for broadband infrastructure and planning, awarded by the ConnectME authority last week.

The statistics on what it takes to make a living off farming in Maine are sobering. The...

Six projects from South Portland to Stonington were awarded state Department of Agriculture Conservation and Forestry grants that will help provide support for projects ranging from identifying ways to reduce flood damage to protecting working waterfronts.

The town of Bowdoinham has hired Richardson & Associates in partnership with Baker Design Consultants to develop a master site plan for the redevelopment of the public works waterfront property.

Nickerson & O'Day Inc. of Brewer recently completed the $7.5 million bathroom renovations for Husson University's Bell Hall...

Abby Sadauckas, a farmer and agricultural service provider of Bowdoinham, has joined the regional group Land For Good, a New England-wide nonprofit whose mission is to ensure the future of farming in the region by putting more farmers more securely on more land.

With revenues dwindling that support more than 900 schools and libraries across the state to pay for high-speed broadband connections, state Rep. Marty Grohman, D-Biddeford, has proposed legislation that would boost the funding stream and bring revenues back up to the necessary level of funding.