These businesses are booming in northern Maine

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These businesses are booming in northern Maine

HOULTON, Maine — Aroostook County small businesses, offering interactive events or services like carpentry, painting and roofing, are in hot demand and entrepreneurial newcomers are finding they have customers lined up before the moving boxes are even unpacked. “Tradespeople hardly have to advertise,” said Johanna Johnston, executive director of the Southern Aroostook Development Corp. “There is work for them because we don’t have tradespeople.…