Hancock Lumber will make its first foray into the Bay State through the acquisition of Johnson Lumber, a single-location lumberyard in Salisbury, Mass., about six miles north of Newburyport.

The Maine Community Foundation is launching the Press Forward initiative in Maine — an effort to reinvigorate local news coverage. The Maine effort will be led by Lisa DeSisto, former CEO of ...

The $5.5 million acquisition of the Lafayette Center — a former mill turned office building in downtown Kennebunk — is one of the largest commercial real estate purchases in the town’s ...

Scarborough-based Landry/French Construction has promoted Mason Rowell to senior vice president of operations. Rowell joined the company in 2011 as an assistant project manager. During this time ...

After more than five years with Teens to Trails, Alicia Heyburn is stepping down as executive director of the nonprofit that connects young Mainers to outdoor experiences. Teens to Trails, staffed ...

A new gym opens this month in developer Tim Harrington’s Five Points shopping center at 420 Alfred Road in Biddeford. Orange Circuit Fitness has renovated the 10,500-square-foot end location ...

Developers Collaborative, based in Portland, has built close to a dozen senior housing projects across the state, from Ellsworth to Sanford. Partners Laura Reading and Kevin Bunker’s newest ...

Gagne & Son, the Belgrade-based manufacturer of concrete, masonry and hardscape products, has appointed Conor Cooper as CEO. Cooper has more than two decades of leadership in the building ...

Digital skills and online safety for rural residents, small businesses, veterans and low-income residents are on the chopping block with the federal government’s termination of $35 million in ...

Voters in the town of Mount Desert unanimously approved a $470,000 general obligation bond to support expansion of a year-round housing development called Ripples Hill Neighborhood. The vote, held ...

The Biddeford Regional Center of Technology has been awarded a $10,000 grant to put toward financial support for students enrolled in the manufacturing technology program. The Gene Haas Foundation ...

Presque Isle International Airport broke ground for a $38.4 million passenger terminal that will replace a facility that dates back to 1952. Terminal construction and other upgrades are part of a ...