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That's no nonsense, just business. Call 855-757-4540 Or visit Business.Spectrum.com Get started with Spectrum Business NO NONSENSE. JUST BUSINESS. M I D C O A S T & D O W N E A S T N O R T H E R N & E A S T E R N Acadia will upgrade infrastructure With money from the Great American Outdoors Act promised, Acadia National Park has drawn up a list of priorities to tackle when its share becomes available. While Acadia's share is still unknown, the national park has "a lot of deferred maintenance projects that are shovel ready," Acadia's superintendent, Kevin Schneider, told the Acadia Advisory Commission during its virtual meeting held Sept. 14. On Aug. 4, President Trump signed into law the Great American Outdoors Act, a conserva- tion bill that includes $9.5 billion over five years to help catch up on a $12 bil- lion maintenance backlog at national parks. With 86 miles of roads, 17 public water systems, 158 miles of hiking trails, 45 miles of carriage roads and four campgrounds, much of Acadia's deferred maintenance is below the sur- face, including things like culverts and wastewater systems. But the backlog includes everything from upgraded restrooms to a new visitor center. N O T E W O R T H Y M I D C O A S T & D O W N E A S T Isle au Haut received $211,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to install a solar power array, enabling the island to receive 100% of electricity from solar power. The funding was awarded through the USDA Rural Development's Rural Energy for America Program. The Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholar- ship Fund and the Agnes Freyer Gibbs Scholarship Fund of the Maine Commu- nity Foundation in Ellsworth awarded $235,000 in scholarships to 10 Maine high school graduates for financial sup- port for graduate and undergraduate studies at schools across the U.S. The Frances Perkins Center in Damar- iscotta received $500,000 through the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures Grant Program. The grant will help fund the preservation of the Fran- ces Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark in Newcastle and requires the center to raise equal matching funds. The MDI Food Access Project was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation. The project is a collaborative effort of Open Table MDI, College of the Atlantic, Healthy Acadia and the Bar Harbor Food Pantry to deliver fresh produce, dry goods and prepared foods to Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor, towns that project leaders say are underserved by current food-security efforts. Red Cloak Tours in Damariscotta an- nounced that it will off "Haunted History Tours" in Freeport and Kennebunkport and a "Secrets of Brunswick" tour in Brunswick. 'American Loggers' stars seek help for industry Two Maine loggers-turned-TV-stars are onscreen again in an appeal to get federal emergency relief to the struggling timber cutting and hauling industry. Eldon Pelletier and Rudy Pelletier, whose Millinocket business was the subject of the former "American Loggers" reality series from 2009 to 2011, have released video statements calling on President Donald Trump and Congress to provide emergency financial relief. It's part of a campaign by the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine, an Augusta-based trade group, and the Carolina Loggers Association. e logging industry has seen a steep decline in demand for wood fiber since the start of the pandemic. A recent analysis by the American Loggers Council shows that this year's 6.7% decrease in raw wood material consump- tion has led to a $1.83 billion reduction in the value of wood delivered by loggers and timber haulers. Loggers and timber haulers have not been included in federal pandemic assistance. N O T E W O R T H Y N O R T H E R N & E A S T E R N The U.S. Department of Transportation's Airport Improvement Program awarded $2.1 million to Lincoln Regional to reconstruct the runway and remove obstructions and $2 million to the Northern Aroostook Regional Airport to construct a taxiway and reconstruct the airport's apron. Northern Light Health in Bangor said the Heroes, Hope, Healing McDonald's Golf Classic raised $49,801 for Northern Light Pediatric Cancer Care and Camp Hope.

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