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Maine Forestry Museum to host 44th annual logging festival days
Daily Bulldog - Maine
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July 4, 2025
RANGELEY- The Maine Forestry Museum is holding its 44th annual logging festival days on Friday and Saturday, July 11th -12th. The festival is located at the fairgrounds at 221 Stratton Road in Dallas Plantation, ME. The Maine Forestry Museum hosts...
Maine set to launch state energy department
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 3, 2025
Maine is poised to get a new state department tasked with managing energy programs. The Department of Energy Resources, authorized by lawmakers this session, will replace the Governor's Energy Office. Establishing a new department with additional...
‘Worst year we’ve had’: Maine tourism industry worried about U.S.-Canada political tension
Global News
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July 4, 2025
This is Part 2 of a series looking at the impact of U.S.-Canada political tensions in Maine. Part 1 took a look at how the tourism industry is coping and why some Canadian tourists are still making the trip across the border. On a hot, sunny...
New zoning changes should reduce housing development challenges, Maine advocates say
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 3, 2025
State lawmakers have approved a sweeping set of zoning changes that advocates say should remove common barriers to building more housing in Maine. The new measure reduces lot sizes in certain areas, known as designated growth areas, that are...
US House passes sweeping bill, leaving solar industry reeling
pv-magazine
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July 4, 2025
Despite vocal bipartisan support for clean energy tax credits, US House and Senate Republicans failed to adjust policies that would continue the rapid buildout of domestic clean energy. July 4, 2025 Anne Fischer From pv magazine USA The One Big...
Maine lawmakers react to passing of the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
WABI - Maine
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July 3, 2025
Maine (WABI) - In the wake of Congress passing the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ lawmakers across Maine have released statements: Governor Mills: “The President may call it the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ – but there’s nothing beautiful about it. There is...
Maine's elected officials weigh in on passage of Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' in House
News Center Maine
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July 3, 2025
The bill now heads to President Donald Trump's desk. He is expected to sign it on Friday. AUGUSTA, Maine — On Thursday, House Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump's $4.5 trillion tax and cuts bill, sending it to Trump's desk for his...
I Ended up in Maine to Consult With a Physician Who Has Patients with High PFAS Blood Levels
The Connecticut Examiner
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July 3, 2025
To the Editor: The Department of Public Health and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection have had an abysmal record of responding to my concerns, Re “Farmer Fights State Officials Over Unregulated PFAS From Nearby Waste...
Maine Pointe’s Chris Brumitt examines supply chain challenges in aerospace and defense
Consultancy.org
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July 3, 2025
As aerospace and defense manufacturers contend with ongoing supply chain disruptions and escalating costs, managing supplier risk and quality assurance is becoming increasingly vital. Chris Brumitt, managing director for aerospace and defense at...
Where to see Fourth of July parades and fireworks in Maine this year
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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July 3, 2025
Friday marks the 249th anniversary of the first Independence Day. The occasion will be marked with some of the summer’s best and brightest fireworks shows. Here’s where you can plan to go to watch the celebrations in Maine. Augusta The parade...
Donald Trump’s tariffs test a legacy Maine industry that global trade decimated
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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July 3, 2025
BUCKFIELD, Maine — Simon Varney pre-ordered extra hardwood from Canada in February when President Donald Trump threatened broad 25 percent import tariffs on goods from that country. The next month, the administration exempted that wood. That left...
Warming Gulf of Maine Buffers Ocean Acidification—For Now
Eos
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July 3, 2025
In the face of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, the Gulf of Maine is thought to be particularly vulnerable to ocean acidification. Its vulnerability has to do with temperature: The waters of the gulf are cold, and cold water dissolves carbon...
Northeast Firms to Pay $1.37M to Settle Claims of Shoddy Runway Construction
Insurance Journal
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July 3, 2025
Contractors from Maine, Connecticut and New York will pay $1.37 million to resolve allegations concerning false claims for payment related to the rehabilitation of a Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport runway in Westfield, Massachusetts. As part of...
'Shameful, dangerous.' Maine lawmakers slam One Big Beautiful Bill's passage
WMTW 8 - Maine
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July 3, 2025
The U.S. House gave final approval Thursday to President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill and sent it to the president's desk, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a...
Cousins Maine Lobster Opens in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
QSR Magazine - North Carolina
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July 3, 2025
Cousins Maine Lobster (CML), the industry-leading fast-casual lobster roll brand, is expanding its North Carolina footprint with the launch of a new food truck in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. The husband-and-wife duo Savas and Victoria...
How tariffs on imported flowers are shaking up Maine's floral industry
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 3, 2025
Beginning in early June, Ryan Ravenscroft spends a lot of time in his fields and greenhouse at Mare Brook Farm in Brunswick, cutting flower stems. He snips snapdragons, stocks, and delphiniums, placing them in 5 gallon buckets. The blooming...
Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is a Huge Win for the Military-Industrial Complex
The Nation
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July 3, 2025
July 3, 2025 While weapons contractors will gorge on a huge new infusion of cash, military personnel, past and present, are clearly going to be neglected. Ad Policy A Boeing B52H bomber is pictured flying in August 2020. (Rob Reedman / CC BY-NC-ND...
Cousins Maine Lobster Debuts Winston-Salem Truck
Franchise Opportunities
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By: Cousins Maine Lobster | 0 Shares 35 Reads July 03, 2025 // Franchising.com // WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Cousins Maine Lobster (CML) is expanding its North Carolina footprint with the launch of a new food truck in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan...
Maine developer of affordable, energy-efficient homes will ramp up
Mainebiz - Oregon
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Zero Energy Homes — a startup looking to show how modular construction combined with “net zero energy” principles can be priced for the affordable housing market — is almost finished building its single-family demonstration home in Searsport and...
Maine lawmakers vote to recapitalize development program, but with risks to taxpayers
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 2, 2025
Maine lawmakers had to make some difficult funding choices this legislative session, but on adjournment day, a majority voted to recapitalize a program that leverages state-backed tax credits to lure investment in economic development projects....