BUCKSPORT — The Bucksport Bay Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, held Tuesday at the Bucksport Golf Course and catered by Ming’s Garden, honored local business people and residents for their contributions to the town. The Chamber bestowed the Hans Honder Award on Bucksport businessman Larry Wahl, owner of The Dairy Port and savior of …
CASTINE — Community members braved the mud and potholes to join the Blue Hill Peninsula Chamber of Commerce for its Cabin Fever Reliever Business Open House earlier this month at Compass Rose Books in Castine. The open house series, which started in January, provides area chamber members an opportunity to host a public reception at …
HANCOCK — Sullivan Harbor Farm Smokehouse, a smoked salmon retailer that was shut down several years ago after losing its license from the Food and Drug Administration, is set to reopen at the end of March. The reopening had been delayed by the federal government shutdown in December, but on Tuesday, owner Leslie Harlow celebrated …
Bangor Savings Bank recently earned a spot in the first-ever World’s Best Banks rankings released by Forbes. The company is ranked 22nd and is the only Maine-based bank in the ranking of 60 United States banks based on surveys by bank customers. Bank scores were based on overall recommendation and satisfaction in addition to evaluations …
ELLSWORTH — On a recent Tuesday morning, the four Boles siblings gathered in an upstairs conference room at their Coastal Auto Parts NAPA store on the Downeast Highway. The topic was the news that they had won the 2019 Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce Top Drawer Award. The award is given every year to “an …
ELLSWORTH — The Jackson Laboratory’s new chief operating officer and executive vice president, Catherine “Katy” Longley, has a message for the region: the lab is hiring and the jobs are good. “We still are in a rapid growth mode,” said Longley in an interview at the lab’s Bar Harbor campus. “We have good quality jobs, …
ELLSWORTH — With Fiberight’s Coastal Resources of Maine facility preparing to accept deliveries of waste next month, the Municipal Review Committee (MRC) has announced that longtime Executive Director Greg Lounder is stepping down next month to explore new career opportunities. “Twenty-five years of dedicated service will be difficult to replace,” said MRC Board President Chip …
ELLSWORTH — The Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, governing board of Woodlawn Museum, Gardens & Park, held its annual meeting and dinner on Jan. 25, at the Black House in Ellsworth. At the meeting, the trustees welcomed two new members and one returning member to the board. Chelsea Sawyer of Ellsworth and Robert Worrell …
ELLSWORTH — Tony Sohns, whose love of the natural world extended to the creepy and crawly and whose family-run Rock & Art shops enliven area downtowns, died Feb. 6 of a heart attack while on a business trip in Arizona. He was 41. To many, especially children who participated in his natural science workshops, Sohns …
