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V O L . X X I I I N O. X X S E P T E M B E R 4 , 2 0 1 7 12 B U S I N E S S M A I N E B U S I N E S S M A I N E B U S I N E S S N E W S F RO M A RO U N D T H E S TAT E Power Co. to look at alternatives. e company will be looking for investors to make the plan a reality. Going solar is a way for Isle au Haut to buy all its electricity locally. " at's money we keep on the island that is otherwise leaving the island," company presi- dent Jim Wilson said. Isle au Haut, six miles long and two miles wide, is one of 15 year-round island communities in Maine, with a year-round population of fewer than 40 residents. 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 In an effort to provide faster internet service for homes and businesses, Central Maine Power Co., a subsidiary of AVANGRID Inc., and the town of Islesboro signed an agreement for use of a fi ber optic line installed in 2016 as part of an upgrade to the island's electric service. The Landing Place, a comprehensive at-risk youth program of the Knox County Homeless Coalition, opened at 61 Park St. in Rockland. Cianbro picked to build psychiatric facility in Bangor e state has selected Cianbro Corp. to build a new 8,300-square-foot 21-bed secure forensic rehabilitation facility in Bangor. e Bangor Daily News reported the goal is to alleviate overcrowding at Augusta's Riverview Psychiatric Center. Under the request for qualifi cations for the project, the building contractor will purchase 6.28 acres of state-owned property for the facility then lease it to the state for 30 years. " e next steps for this project are for the state of Maine to begin negotiating a lease with Cianbro," David Heidrich Jr., director of communications for the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, told the paper. Cianbro, which is based in Pittsfi eld, is Maine's largest construction company. Proposal would remove code barriers for tiny homes A proposed appendix to the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code could make it easier to build a tiny home. e Bangor Daily News reported that a tiny home is generally defi ned as a structure under 500 square feet. Gov. Paul LePage has already signed off on the proposed appendix and the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code Board will hold a public hearing. " e current building code is unfortunately infl exible when it comes to tiny houses," state Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, who requested the board consider the appendix, told the BDN. "Anything that can help move the tiny house movement along is a good thing," said Ted Lucier of Tiny Houses of Maine. LD 873, "An Act To Adopt Tiny House Standards in the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code," was withdrawn late in the fi rst session of the 128th Legislature. It had called for the Technical Building Codes and Standards Board to adopt standards for tiny house construction no later than Jan.1, 2018. Changing the standard via the appendix, the pro- posed legislation stated, is considered routine technical rule-making under Maine's revised statutes. 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 National Science Foundation awarded a total of $1.1 million to the University of Maine in Orono to sup- port four research projects. S.J. Rollins Technologies, a cloud hosting, managed services, network security and telecommunications com- pany, moved its headquarters from Bangor to 508 Wilson St. in Brewer. Performance Physical Therapy opened a second location, at 277 State St. in Brewer. Katahdin Bankshares Corp., parent company of Katahdin Trust Co. in Houlton, declared a cash dividend of 10 cents a share for the third quarter of 2017. The dividend will be payable on Sept. 22 to all shareholders of record as of Sept. 15. The corporation also declared a cash dividend on its preferred stock Series D of $54.6875 per share for the third quarter. The preferred stock Series D dividend will be payable on Oct. 15 to shareholders of record as of Oct. 5. The University of Maine at Presque Isle received $639,257 in grant fund- ing through the U.S. Department of Education's Upward Bound Program. The program helps low-income, fi rst- generation, and other students from disadvantaged backgrounds pursue higher education. P O R T L A N D , M E | M I L K S T R E E T C A P I TA L .B I Z | 207-358 -790 0 NO appraisals NO committees QUICK responses QUICK closings When you need it done… CALL US. N O R T H E R N & E A S T E R N

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