12 excursions all across the state, from hockey games to indie theaters to dogsled races. Winter won’t be the off-season anymore! If you are on a desktop, you’ll need to download the portal app to ...

[I]f the character of a place derives from the people who live there, then this scene on a quiet Thursday night in March says more about the Kennebunks than a dozen picture-perfect postcards of Dock ...

On a recent Saturday at the Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons, Ali Hamsa and Muhidin Libah took a break from building a fence around a goat pasture to share a laugh at the orneriest kid in ...

On a recent Saturday evening, downtown Lisbon Falls’s streets were quiet. Just about everyone, it seemed, was inside Flux, the restaurant run by brothers and first-time restaurateurs Jason and Tyson ...

When a network of timber-company roads started spidering out across Maine’s north woods in the 1970s and ’80s, it was a game-changer for recreationists: millions of prohibitively remote acres were ...

In 1883, rusticators were hiking Cadillac Mountain — then called Green Mountain — in record numbers. So an enterprising local named Francis H. Clergue built a narrow-gauge cog railway to the top and ...

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Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Arundel are leaning all the way into romance in February, painting the towns in red hearts and red and white lights and rolling out shop sales, cozy dining specials, and ...

For its ordinance aiming to protect residents from toxic chemicals, we are proud to award the 33rd Down East Environmental Award to the town of Ogunquit. It is not a stretch to say that the American ...

From the high ledges at Georgetown’s Five Islands, eyes stare eastward over Sheepscot Bay and southward to the Gulf of Maine. Embedded in granite, perpetually open, they have watched from this place ...

[cs_drop_cap letter=”L” color=”#000000″ size=”5em” ]ate one night this past January, at the white-clapboard friary on a wooded hillside in Bucksport ...

In 2003, Ellen and Peter Wood were among the very first “pioneer residents” of a brand-new, 55+ residential community in Topsham, called Highland Green. One reason they were so keen on the place? It ...