The leaders who have shaped the state over the past year.
With cutting-edge ideas, bold ambition, and optimistic investors, startup success is gaining momentum in Maine. They say you have seven seconds to make a good first impression. But when Susan MacKay stood before a full house of Maine Angel investors
Ron Phillips has been helping shape Maine’s economy since 1977. Late on Tuesday, March 21, 1978, a fire broke out at a fish freezer and processing plant on Atlantic Avenue in Boothbay Harbor. By early Wednesday the facilities were destroyed,
Chris Thompson of Thompson’s Point Development Company has developed several hotel and mixed-use projects in New England, including Thompson’s Point in Portland and a 93-room Hampton Inn in Lewiston. Thompson is an associate professor at the Maine College of Art.
How Renys Discount Department Store Has Thrived for 65 Years Maine culture is defined by such rock-solid values as thrift, practicality, resourcefulness, hard work, and individualism, sometimes bordering on eccentricity. A sampling of Maine culture is on full display, and
The Creative Portland Executive Director Dreams of Upending How we Value Art. It is one of those brilliantly colorful days in Portland. Commercial Street is swelling with end-of-summer restlessness. Lines jut out of restaurants, lobster shacks, and cafes. Cars carrying
Zoe Weil is the cofounder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She’s the author of six books, including Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times, and the Nautilus Silver Medal winner Most Good, Least
Maine's best-known weatherman's meteoric rise
Win Fowler of Maine Sailing Partners I want to find out exactly what the customer wants and do that, says Fowler, pictured here in his Freeport sailmaking loft. Lately I’ve been asking sailors from Portland if they know of Win
Peter E. Chalke is the president and CEO of Central Maine Healthcare, the parent organization that oversees Central Maine Medical Center, Bridgton Hospital, Rumford Hospital, Central Maine Medical Group, and Maine College of Health Professions. Chalke explains that people are attracted to Maine life because of its rural communities and expansive geography,
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