Scarce housing opportunities have pushed workers, especially those in hospitality, health care, education or municipal services, to either commute long distances or leave the region altogether.
Scarce housing opportunities have pushed workers, especially those in hospitality, health care, education or municipal services, to either commute long distances or leave the region altogether.
Kenneth Knauer, a project manager with Prock Marine, one of Maine’s largest marine contractors, is used to being busy. But the past few weeks have been an exception. “We’ve been getting phone calls pretty steady ever since the storms hit,” said.
The rain and wind of the Jan. 9-10 storm brewed 13-14-foot tides that slammed against the coastline of the Boothbay Harbor region leaving destruction in their wake. From lost piers and docks of homeowners in Southport and Newagen, to the non-.