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V I E W P O I N T S W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 3 J U LY 1 1 , 2 0 1 6 For a daily digest of Maine's top business news, sign up for the Mainebiz Daily Report at mainebiz.biz/enews Get Maine's business news daily at mainebiz.biz and on Twitter (@Mainebiz). Below is some of the best from our online-only offerings: Featured @ Mainebiz.biz Jackson Lab nabs grant funding to boost vaccines, enhance biomedical database The Jackson Laboratory will get a $3.4 million grant over five years to develop new agents that boost the effective- ness of vaccines to bet- ter protect elderly and immunosuppressed patients, while The Jackson Laboratory's Gene Expression Database will get $10.5 million to be further developed. Find out more about what the research teams will do with the funding at mainebiz.biz/jacksongrant Controversial wind project sold for $127M The Passadumkeag Wind project in Grand Falls Township, which was the first wind project in the state to be denied a permit due to its impact on scenic views, has been sold to the Atlanta-based energy company Southern Co. for $127 million. Find out more about the new owner and the proj- ect's contentious past at mainebiz.biz/passadum Maine comes out big with federal energy grants Thirteen Maine businesses and farms were awarded a total of $108K in grant funding through the Rural Energy for America Program to assist in lowering energy costs and installing renewable energy systems including solar arrays, LED lighting and coolant systems. Find out what businesses received the grants and what they plan to do with the funds at mainebiz.biz/108rural W e who live in southern Maine tend to think of Aroostook County, a.k.a. e County, as this amorphous space that takes up the upper half of Maine. ere are plenty of people from southern Maine who have never been to e County and have no plans to go to e County. And that's their loss. As editor of Mainebiz, as I have often said, I am lucky to get paid to visit every corner of Maine — including the corner that is the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Our "On the Road" network- ing events are our chance to visit or revisit six locations around the state. is year we marketed the fact that these events would be held "from Kittery to Fort Kent," a distance of 363 miles that takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to travel, according to Google Maps. What do we know about Aroostook County? It pro- duces potatoes, broccoli and elected offi cials, including U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Caribou native. Depending on how you measure it, Aroostook is either the largest or second-largest county east of the Rocky Mountains. St. Louis County, Minn., home of Duluth, is larger if you include water, smaller if you measure only land. Like the rest of the Mainebiz staff , I relished the opportunity to get back to e County. I'd already been in Houlton, Presque Isle, Fort Fairfi eld and Mars Hill. But here was an opportunity to see the St. John Valley, the border with New Brunswick, at the nexus of a region that on one side is forest products and on the other side is agriculture. I loved the idea of getting as far north in Maine as you can go — as far north on the East Coast as you can go. Every "On the Road" event includes a round-table discussion before the networking. I want to give a shout out to the people that took part in the discus- sion: Peter Moore, Corporate Finance Associates; David Whitney, Sheridan Construction; Wes Jordan, Sheridan Construction; David Cambridge, Katahdin Trust Co.; Dana Saucier, Pinnacle Management Consulting; Dan Vaillancourt, Daigle Oil Co.; John Short, University of Maine at Fort Kent; Bob Dorsey, Aroostook Partnership for Progress; Douglas Cyr, Irving Woodlands Forestry; Dona R. Saucier, Greater Fort Kent Area Chamber of Commerce; and Jonathan Roy, Inn of Acadia. Peter Van Allen pvanallen@mainebiz.biz From the Editor Why they call it The County Irving Woodlands Forestry; Dona R. Saucier, Greater Fort Kent Area Chamber of Commerce; and Jonathan Roy, Inn of Acadia. larger if you include water, smaller if no plans to go to e County. And that's their loss. you can go — as far north on the East Coast as you can go. a round-table discussion before the networking. I want to give a shout out to the people that took part in the discus- sion: Peter Moore, Corporate Finance Associates; David Whitney, Sheridan Construction; Wes Jordan, Sheridan Construction; David Cambridge, Katahdin Trust Co.; Dana Saucier, Pinnacle Management Consulting; Dan Vaillancourt, Daigle Oil Co.; John Short, University of Maine at Fort Kent; Bob Dorsey, Aroostook Partnership for Progress; Douglas Cyr, Irving Woodlands Forestry; Dona R. Irving Woodlands Forestry; Dona R. bernsteinshur.com Be smart. BE SHUR. When you need a lawyer who thinks like an executive and speaks like a human. P H O T O S / P E T E R VA N A L L E N

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