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Sweet Dirt, which now has five stores, has opened its fourth adult-use shop, located at 305 Main St. in Rockland.

The acquisition means that Piscataqua Landscaping & Tree Service now has three locations, after also making a business last year.

The owner and crew of the Western Sea caught herring for years without reporting it, making hundreds of thousands of dollars, federal prosecutors claim. They also say dozens of falsified reports were filed to cover up the illegal sales.

Shipyard Waste Solutions was acquired by Wheelabrator Technologies last summer. Now along with eight other companies, the combined businesses are getting a new identity.

The listing would cap off a collaborative, decade-long effort that could deliver more federal funding to protect the river, which provides environmental and economic benefits to surrounding communities.

A New Hampshire lab owner saw an opportunity to set up a testing lab when Maine voters approved adult recreational use of marijuana. Only two other other marijuana testing labs have been operating in the state.

As sales grow in both the state's medical and recreational-use cannabis markets, several businesses outside of Maine are looking to cultivate new customers here.

The two companies were founded within a few years of each other, and are headquartered less than a mile apart. They've competed in turf wars across southern Maine for nearly four decades.

The dispensary of recreational-use marijuana is also the first for Eliot-based Sweet Dirt, a cannabis company that has operated in Maine's medical marijuana market since 2015. The company plans several other new stores.

The four towns in southern York county typically allow 24/7 access to public beaches. But after reports of groups gathering on them, the beaches are closed. Some area restaurants, however, remain open and are trying to get by.