Maine News You May Have Missed
York Senators Susan Collins and Angus King introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate that would add the York River to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, administered by the National Park...
View ArticleHow to Find Your Perfect Maine Home
Why do so many visitors to the midcoast end up becoming seasonal homeowners or year-round residents? In a phrase, says Camden Real Estate Company owner Scott Horty, it’s the quality of life: the...
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Is Saddleback’s Future Finally Bright?
By Will Grunewald Photographed by Jamie Walter In its 56-year history, Saddleback had teetered on the brink of closure a few times, but in the winter of early 2016, the realization that it had really...
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Ben’s Picks: Biweekly Photo Faves
Curtis Island Light PHOTOGRAPHED BY NATE JOHNSON Find an interesting subject in good light, fill the frame, and eliminate distractions: you’re likely to come away with a nice image every time. I love...
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Clare Egan’s Favorite Maine Place
As a member of the U.S. Biathlon team, Clare Egan travels the globe competing in the sport, which combines Nordic skiing with rifle marksmanship. Since taking up biathlon in 2011, she’s competed in...
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How to Stress Less About Downsizing
As Sam Crawford’s parents aged, they made it clear that they didn’t want to downsize from their home in the Miami area. “They loved that house,” says Crawford (a pseudonym used at the family’s...
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Cultivating Community
In 1974, while working full-time in New Jersey, Sam and Betsey Harding bought a home on 15 bucolic acres in Jackson, New Hampshire, where they lived in the summers and planned to spend their...
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The State of Maine’s Small Ski Hills
ABOVE: A packed lift at Greenville’s Big Squaw Mountain in 1973. Facing necessary and expensive capital improvements to lifts and more, the mountain’s private owner closed it in 2010. Since 2013, a...
View ArticleSplit Rock Bourbon Comes of Age
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Mark Fleming If you’re a distiller, bourbon is like a baby. You make it, you endure an interminable wait, and you cross fingers that you like the thing once it finally...
View ArticleFebruary 2021
Features So Cold It Shines With a fresh drop of investment and ideas, Rangeley’s Saddleback Mountain is back, and its future might finally be bright. By Will Grunewald Fever Pitch A spate of attacks...
View ArticleCan You Name This Landmark Home and the Historic District to Which It Belongs?
Visitors to this 1755 Georgian-style home, one of the state’s oldest surviving structures, can sometimes hear planes arriving and departing overhead, a reminder of the modern in this historic...
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The Curator Who Remixed Rockland
By Will Grunewald | Photographed by Erin Little In the 1980s, Rockland residents would never have thought to tout their hardscrabble downtown as Maine’s art capital. Back then, the city was reeling...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Rumford Center Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from December’s photo. “As you travel west along the Androscoggin, you go...
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Rabies Sunk Its Teeth Into Midcoast Maine. How To Loosen Its Grip?
By Jaed Coffin | Illustration by David Plunkert Norman Kenney, Bath’s 89-year-old retired fire chief, walks with an extendable cane — one that “a woman can fold up and put in her purse,” he says. His...
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Looking: A Good Way to See
By Susan Hand Shetterly I am sitting at my kitchen table with a fine-tipped Sharpie in hand, trying to conjure onto a sheet of paper the stalk and dry seed head of a bee-balm flower that I’ve set in...
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13 Maine-Made Outdoor Winter Essentials
By Sara StebbinsPhotographed by Mark Fleming A chance Instagram encounter with a pair of Windham-designed skirted ski pants launched this winter gear guide. If this ingenious, bun-warming garment had...
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You Don’t Have to Be Vegan to Love These Doughnuts
By Katy KelleherPhotographed by Mark Fleming People don’t always know what they’re getting at Kittery’s Lovebirds Donuts. They’re of course familiar with the concept of the decadent, round,...
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Ben’s Picks: Biweekly Photo Faves
Moose Pond Halo Talk about a “wow” moment! This incredible capture by Eric Storm pretty much takes the cake for the most exciting shot I’ve seen this winter. The sun rising behind the small island on...
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Lewiston The school district added Islamic holidays to its vacation schedule for the first time, in recognition of the city’s significant immigrant community of Somali Muslims. Lewiston schools to...
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Venison Crockpot Chili
Christi Holmes filled her deer tag quickly last autumn. The Gray resident, a columnist for both the Maine Sportsman and the Bangor Daily News, likes to bring a little venison jerky when she goes ice...
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