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This Burgeoning Brunswick Bagel Shop Can Hardly Keep Up
By Will GrunewaldFrom our January 2024 issue By 2 o’clock on a Saturday morning, Jeremy Kratzer is out of bed in Saco. By 3, he has driven 45 miles to Brunswick, where he and his wife, Marina, started...
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Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice Provides Peace of Mind
With a median age of 45 and baby boomers comprising 27 percent of the population, Maine is the oldest state in the union. As a result, Maine has a large share of adult children caring for their older...
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This Historic Maine Weather Vane Has Left Its Perch for Good
By Stephanie BouchardFrom our January 2024 issue On a stormy night in November 1983, thieves took a pair of ladders from a Hallowell construction site, scaled the nearby fire station’s tower, and...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Wild Skating on Maine’s Frozen Lakes and Rivers
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our January 2024 issue For many in Maine, the arrival of winter means lacing up skates for breezy spins around the local pond. Ideally, a thermos of hot...
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76-Year-Old Harold Crosby Hopes You’ll Take a Skate on the Wild Side
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our January 2024 issue When Harold Crosby was seven years old, his dad sharpened a couple of old machinist files into blades, embedded them in strips of wood,...
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Photographer Darylann Leonard Has Two Nature-Based Workshops Planned for 2024
Darylann Leonard’s love for photography began as a child, watching and learning from her father, who was a teacher and self-taught photographer. Through the years, her love for hiking and exploring...
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A Flurry of Research Gives New Insight into Elusive Snowy Owls
By Loren MerrillFrom our January 2024 issue An aura of mystery surrounds the comings and goings of snowy owls in Maine. The first birds show up between October and December in areas reminiscent of...
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The Art of Being Jeffery Becton
By Jesse EllisonPhotos by Cig HarveyFrom our January 2024 issue We were heading out toward Jericho Bay and Eggemoggin Reach on a clear, chilly evening last fall, just before dusk, when our captain,...
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Buy This Issue! Features Flower Power Farmers across the state are banding together to take on the hegemony of imports in local flower shops. If they succeed, Maine floriculture could hit full bloom....
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Can You Name This Civic and Architectural Gem of a Street?
The name of this downtown street nods to a big, grassy field that’s across from a stately strip of Federal, Italianate, and Greek Revival houses. In warmer months, the lawn hosts food trucks,...
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For Homey Fare, There’s No Place Like Pottle’s
By Virginia M. WrightPhotos by Nicole WolfFrom our January 2024 issue Pottle’s, which opened last summer in Liberty village, is a den of homeyness. The barroom is dark and intimate, with exposed...
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Mod Italian Design Takes Up Residence In a Freeport Sea Captain’s House
By Sara Anne DonnellyFrom our February 2024 issue Casa Alchimia’s elegant Colonial exterior suggests a classic Maine inn experience, but everything inside defies expectations, save for the plastic...
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100 Percent Employee-Owned Allen Insurance and Financial Recognized
When Cameron Gartley accepted a position as a personal lines account executive at Allen Insurance and Financial in 2016, he wasn’t focused on the company’s employee-ownership structure. A recent...
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This Natural-History Museum Digs into Maine’s Prehistoric Past
By Virginia M. WrightFrom our February 2024 issue In 1938, Canada’s top paleontologist penned a letter to Caribou naturalist Olof Nylander, praising his report on the strata and fossils of Square Lake...
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Nicole Skidmore’s passion for hospitality originated at the Captain’s House Inn, her grandparents’ bed-and-breakfast on Cape Cod. During summer stays when she was a teen, she greeted guests, left...
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The Maine Women Behind the Viral TikTok Account My Mother’s Diaries
By Virginia M. WrightFrom our February 2023 issue Last September, Lynn Bonsey, a bespectacled 70-year-old whose nickname is Clod, deadpanned her way through a 35-second TikTok chronicle of indignities...
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Photographer Joel Greenberg’s New Book Is a Love Letter to Vinalhaven
By Will GrunewaldFrom our February 2024 issue Joel Greenberg first laid eyes on Vinalhaven in the summer of 1977, after a friend tipped him off about a house available to rent on the cheap. A few...
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Wood Finishes (and a Wood-Fired Sauna) Warm a Lincolnville Retreat
Belfast carpenter Dan Greeley’s 2021 conversion of a three-season porch into a year-round sunroom adjoining the living room launched the home’s cozy, streamlined design. After removing a wall, Greeley...
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The Artists of Cumberland Crossing by OceanView Are Pursuing Their Passions
Hammering His Talent Home A longtime dabbler in carpentry, Westbrook native Sam Broaddus only started working in wood seriously after he retired as director of urology at Maine Medical Center in 2014....
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Brunswick’s Tao Yuan Has Mounted a Pretty Sweet Comeback
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Nicole Wolf From our February 2024 issue Cara Stadler was just 24 years old when, in 2012, she opened Tao Yuan. Two years later, the Brunswick restaurant earned her the...
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