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The
City of Bangor hosted the National
Folk Festival, drawing crowds
of well over 100,000, in 2002-2004.
The festival chooses a host city for a three-year
period and raved about Bangor’s enthusiasm
and support for the event. The festival
was so successful that the organizers are
planning to continue the event as the American
Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront in
August of 2005.
T-Mobile
has just announced that it will build a
customer service center and create
approximately 700 positions with a median
salary of $35,000 in Oakland, Maine’s
FirstPark business park. The
$17 million center is expected to open in
the summer of 2005.
The October 2004 issue of Fortune
Magazine included a feature on doing
business in Maine. Several
Maine businesses were profiled in the article
The
University of Maine is leading the way in
the next big thing in design and manufacturing:
microelectromechanical
systems often associated with the buzzword
nanotechnology. The Laboratory for
Surface Science and Technology recently
moved into new facilities that are among
the best in the country to design and fabricate
these devices and it has brought in more
world-class researchers to complement its
existing expertise.
With
the recent installation of an Apple G5 super
computer, the University of Maine now has
the largest computing capability of any
public university north of Pittsburgh.
Located at the Target Technology Center,
the supercluster
was built with over $4 million in US
Army funding and is now expanding into areas
such as structural modeling, marine and
ocean modeling and biotechnology.
Maine
is hosting top U.S. biathlon skiers and
world cup events at the Maine Winter Sports
Center’s facility in Fort Kent, Maine.
The Maine Winter Sports Center was founded
to create economic opportunities for rural
Maine by promoting skiing in northern and
western Maine. It has hosted several
world and junior biathlon events, including
the December 2004 World Team Trials, which
were moved to Fort Kent from Lake Placid,
NY after adverse weather conditions.
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