Maine Motels

New Owner Plans to Renovate Bangor, Maine, Motel 6.

Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 6--BANGOR, Maine--The Motel 6 in Bangor is under new ownership and plans are in the works to renovate the 59-room motel located on Hammond Street. Kushi Realty Group of Andover, Mass., last week purchased the motel from Accor North

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Once opposed, Maine motel owners thankful for dune-grass planting

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine -- Shorefront businesses that took their opposition to a dune-grass planting program to the state's highest court are now singing a different tune. A 3.5-mile-long sand dune that developed because of the grass kept beachfront property safe and dry during a Dec. 4 storm,

Publication: The Boston Globe

Phone call home foils: ; Denmar duo's escape; Maine motel clerk insists on ID ;; verification call alerts W.Va. authorities

kellyr@wvgazette.com A call home from Maine on Mother's Day led to the capture of two West Virginia prison escapees. One of two 21-year-old Denmar Correctional Center escapees made the call home from Suburban Pines Motel in Windham, Maine, said Windham Police Sgt. Peter Fulton. West Virginia State

Publication: Charleston Gazette

Four Mass. suspects held in Maine motel robbery.(News)

Two New Bedford men charged with tying up a Waterville, Maine, motel clerk and robbing him at gunpoint before dawn yesterday - allegedly with the help of three friends - were being held last night on $250,000 bail, police said. The band "did have a shotgun aimed at the (clerk). He was not injured

Publication: The Boston Herald

Panel approves expansion plan for Bangor, Maine, motel.

By Dawn Gagnon, Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18--BANGOR, Maine -- The owner of Riverview Motel Efficiency Apartments on Tuesday received a green light to proceed with plans to expand long-term rental options for visiting professionals. After a public hearing

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

FRANCES HARRISBURG OWNED MAINE MOTEL; AT 81

Services were held Monday, March 9, for Frances (Koupchik) Harrisburg, 81, of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, a motel owner who died Saturday in Biddeford Nursing Home after a short illness. She was 81. Mrs. Harrisburg owned the Copley-LaReine Motel in Old Orchard Beach. Mrs. Harrisburg was born in

Publication: The Boston Globe

Beach man beaten at Maine motel a victim of mistaken identity.(Local)

The Associated Press BANGOR, Maine Police say a Virginia man who was beaten with a hammer and baseball bat at a Bangor motel was apparently a victim of mistaken identity. Bangor police said two men wearing black ski masks were apparently looking for drugs when they forced their way into a room at

Publication: The Virginian Pilot

FIRE SWEEPS MAINE MOTEL

ROCKLAND, Maine - A five-alarm fire swept through the Trade Winds Motor Inn yesterday, injuring two people and causing extensive damage to the 111-room motel near the Rockland waterfront. Two people who suffered burns in the afternoon blaze were rushed to Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport,

Publication: The Boston Globe

Hancock, Maine, restaurant and motel to change hands.

By Bill Trotter, Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 16--HANCOCK, Maine -- A well-known Route 1 motel and restaurant has been sold to a local businessman who owns two other hotels in Hancock County. Gilbert Bailey, who founded White Birches Restaurant and Motel in 1980

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

SBA names head of N.E. region Maine Democrat has experience in motel, store business

The US Small Business Administration has named a small-business owner from rural Maine to head its New England office. Patrick K. McGowan, 37, a motel owner and a former Maine state representative, became administrator on Monday for the agency's New England region, with headquarters in Boston.

Publication: The Boston Globe