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Lobster industry blasts proposed regulations intended to protect whales

Maine officials and members of the state’s lobster industry are blasting a new federal report on the endangered right whale, claiming it uses old science to unfairly target the fishery for restrictions. The Maine Department of Marine Resources, the agency that regulates the $434 million lobster fishery, and the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, the trade group […]

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Bath approves TIF spending to pay debts, improve roads, parking

BATH — Bath is pumping the more than $2 million it brought in through tax increment financing agreements into debt payments, roadwork and parking and traffic studies. The city has three tax increment financing agreements: the Bath Iron Works agreement, the Wingfarm agreement and the Downtown agreement. TIFs are a common financing tool municipalities use […]