The average daily volume of Canadian motorists paying cash at tollbooths from May through August fell 43%, from 2,377 in 2024 to 1,339 this year.
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Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine, News
Northern Light Health announces it will cut 3% of its workforce
The second-largest health care system in Maine has suffered from financial difficulties during the past few years.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Immigrant owners are preserving Maine’s variety stores and markets
New Mainers are buying and operating village markets and variety stores across the state, often in rural areas where they are preserving the only retail access to gas, groceries and other necessities for miles around.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Immigrant owners are preserving Maine’s variety stores and markets
New Mainers are buying and operating village markets and variety stores across the state, often in rural areas where they are preserving the only retail access to gas, groceries and other necessities for miles around.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Small Town Stores
HARPSWELL, ME – JULY 18: Customers walk in and out of Uncle Pete’s Community Market in Harpswell on Friday, July 18, 2025. (Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer)`
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
See photos from local farms serving customers with CSAs
Staff Photographer Libby Kamrowski Kenny captures images of life at Little Ridge Farm in Lisbon and Nezinscot Farm in Turner.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine, News
For Maine farmers, CSAs bring more certainty to an unforgiving industry
Many farmers have embraced community supported agriculture as a way to stabilize income and promote the benefits of local agriculture.
Posted inBusiness, Livermore Falls Advertiser, News
Workers rally in Jay as part of national union bus tour
Workers, labor leaders and community members rallied in Jay as part of the AFL-CIO’s national bus tour to call for stronger union rights and protections.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Lewiston’s WLAM radio signs off after 78 years
The AM station was once a fixture in Lewiston and Auburn with music, sports, news and community involvement.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Passamaquoddy Tribe wants to install hundreds of rooftop solar panels. Maine utility says it’s not allowed.
Regulators’ decision could also affect people in retirement communities and mobile home cooperatives who band together to fund solar projects.