PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 22, 2024
Dozens of Maine’s maritime businesses are set to receive more than $21 million in disaster relief to repair damage caused by a series of intense winter storms that decimated the state’s working waterfronts. Gov. Janet Mills announced on Monday that 68 Maine working waterfronts will receive $21.2 million in grants from the Working Waterfront Resilience Grant program. The money will help businesses reconstruct and improve damaged piers, rebuild and restore support buildings like bait sheds, and repair and upgrade fuel and electrical systems.