We have heard that having access to patient, flexible capital is essential for their community-focused businesses to work.

The small private school, with a student body of about 675, bills itself as “America’s Environmental College.” Students major in such subjects as conservation law enforcement, aiming at careers as game wardens, park rangers and police officers.

“I do still believe there is an innate appeal of maps that is going to continue to drive individual interests in maps they can put on their walls…” —Steve Engle

Boatyards, marinas and boat builders represent a large part of the state’s island and coastal economies, accounting for more than 2,200 jobs. But these businesses, often run by families, are facing obstacles as they plan for future management and ownership.

The back deck is a communal place of wooden staircases, small upper-story decks, and silvery cedar shingling.

The company will pay a $40 million fine and eight of its ships will be monitored…

If a person is environmentally conscious, she said, then “maybe a cruise ship is not the vacation you take.”

The first commercial urchin landings were recorded in the early 1930s, with urchin roe already a valuable commodity for ethnic markets in Boston and New York

If you live in Jonesport, Rangeley or New Sweden, you may not feel like you have much in common with Swan’s Island and neighboring Frenchboro Island. But a recent decision at the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) suggests you have more in common than you might think.