Two new businesses will open in the former Wiscasset Old General Store in mid-September: a shop for gourmet coffee and smoothies and a dealer of Maine- and New England-made products.

When Russ Pinkham made the decision to move his seafood market from a few miles out of town, on Route 27, closer to the hub of activity in Boothbay Harbor, he and his wife, Cathy, were planning to simply open another seafood market in a new building.

Dylan Metrano first approached his wife, Mandy, with his idea to start a chocolate company on Monhegan Island last fall. Less than a year later, La Nef Chocolate is producing small-batch artisan chocolates available at island businesses.

On March 25, 1988, an innovative new store opened in Portland. Now Mexicali Blues can be found in six locations around Maine, and it continues to grow and thrive. The store is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Escape rooms, the game where teams have 60 minutes to solve clues in order to “escape” a themed room, is coming to Damariscotta.

After 10 years running her small but stuffed-to-the-gills store, Burnham’s Bloomers, just off Route 1 in Waldoboro, Dianne Burnham has decided to close its doors.

The South Bristol convenience store and restaurant Harborside reopened under new ownership the first week of July.

After 11 years of raising cattle for beef, Jeff and Linda Biden, of Eastern River Cattle Co., recently got out of the cattle business. However, the barn that previously housed the company’s herd will now have a new purpose: storing automobiles.

The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop celebrated its 50th anniversary with a 1960s theme, in honor of the decade of its founding, Saturday, July 21.