MIDCOAST A total of 163 businesses in Knox and Waldo counties received aid money from the Maine Tourism, Hospitality and Retail Recovery Grant program.
Funding for the program originated from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund with funding being provided to the first 2,500 approved applications from eligible tourism, hospitality and retail businesses in the industries of accommodation and food services; breweries; wineries; distilleries; retail trade; arts; entertainment; and recreation.
Applicants must have gross sales between $24,000 and $12 million annually and suffered a 20% or greater loss in gross sales as reported to the Maine Revenue Services on sales tax returns comparing either March 2019 through September 2019 to March 2020 through September 2020, for monthly filers, or April 2019 through September 2019 to April 2020 through September 2020, for quarterly filers.
earthquake. that s why we would consider this a foreshock. but 298 fatalities. then we look back just four daysing, in a similar cross proximity. we had no fatalities hours apart from each other. a very likelihood. the death was so shallow, ten coil om terse deep really is a shol owe earthquake. if we had a deeper art quake, we would simply have more rock bed, more earth for the shockwave of an earthquake. when it s only ten kilometers deep, there s not much to help absorb or dampen the devastating effects of a strong earthquake like this. here s the village or town. this is the epicenter. that is about six kilometers or roughly three miles.
their turn, losing once but then going on to get the nomination down the road, like bob dole or john mccain, you know. that s the kind of thing, george h.w. bush. it s happened before. and maybe he s still a relatively young guy, jon huntsman is thinking along those lines. one of the things i noticed, wolf, about huntsman is that he really is relatively he walks away relatively unscathed in this process when you think about it, because he hasn t been hit by all that money from the super pacs to really bury him in criticism like newt gingrich is talking about. and at the same time, he gets to walk away from this, he still has his own money, his own reputation in tact. he doesn t have that kind of really harsh criticism that would have happened if he had gone on to south carolina. do you think he s positioning himself now for, say, a position in the romney cabinet, potentially secretary of state? i don t know about secretary of state, but certainly he could position himse
prudent left-wingers. germany is the rock bed here and germany and the people who run the european union are horrified at the profligacy of spain, portugal, also, by the way, of italy, and greece. and it looks like the currency is falling apart because the stronger countries don t want to help the weaker countries. don t they have rules within the community about fiscal responsibility. can countries go crazy and still be in the union? i have to tell you. i don t think they can. this reminds me not so much of the russian situation in the 90s, what people are comparing it to. but if we re going to go back in time, let s go back to 1982 and 83 and 84. it looks like the countries are going to have to default for this to end. which is why if we circle back to our market, people are worried that until we see some default, until we see a resolution of the crisis, good or bad, our market is going to be doing wild things like it did today. and people have to be careful. i always say home
made up of profligate right-wingers and somewhat prudent left-wingers. germany is the rock bed here and germany and the people who run the european union are horrified at the profligacy of spain, portugal, it will i and greece. and it looks like the currency is falling apart because the stronger countries don t want to help the weaker countries. don t they have rules within the community about fiscal responsibility. can countries go crazy and still be in the union? i have to tell you. i don t think they can. this reminds me not so much of the russian situation in the 90s, what people are comparing it to. but if we re going to go back in time, let s go back to 1982 and 1938 and 84. it looks like the countries are going to have to default for this to end. which is why if we circle back to our market, people are worried that until we see some default, until we see a resolution of the crisis, good or bad, our market is going to