One of northern Maine’s best kept secrets lies on the edge of the North Maine Woods in Portage Lake and it now has a new owner. Shannon Currier recently purchased Portage Lakeside Cabins.
Five organizations in Maine, from Caribou to Brunswick will receive more than $3.6 million to provide affordable loans to low-income residents and communities to help pay for the growth of enterprises such as small businesses and affordable housing.
An Aroostook County sheet metal company has developed a lynx device which could benefit not just trappers and businesses, but the animals themselves. It looks a bit like chicken wire wrapped around a plastic bucket, but JB Sheet Metal’s lynx exclusion device is proving to be worth far more than that.
Eleven nominees are vying for the title of Aroostook Entrepreneur of the Year for 2016.
The nominees will be honored and a winner announced at an awards dinner Thursday, May 26, at Northern Maine Community College.
Maine's Land Use Planning Commission has adopted zoning rules members say will provide opportunity for rural business to locate and grow in new areas of Aroostook County.
Aroostook County Tourism (ACT) will be hosting a Tourism Summit Friday, May 20, from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum in Littleton.
Robert P. Clark, Executive Director of the Northern Maine Development Commission in Caribou was elected to the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) 2016 – 2018 Board of Directors.