Fast Times at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics
By Will Grunewald These are heady days for the Maine School of Science and Mathematics, a residential magnet school in Limestone, in the state’s rural northeastern corner. Newsweek recently ranked it...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Megunticook Lake Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from January’s photo of Megunticook Lake. In September 1980, I spent an...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Brooksville
Skirting the southwestern edge of the Blue Hill Peninsula, bucolic Brooksville has some of the state’s prettiest scenery and lowest property taxes. Buck’s Harbor, the closest thing the community has...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Eastport
Eastport rings in the new year twice— first at 11 p.m. (when it’s midnight in neighboring New Brunswick), with the drop of a big maple leaf and a round of “O Canada,” and then again at 12 a.m., with...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: South Berwick
It’s just an hour from both Boston and Portland and 10 miles north of comparatively bustling Kittery, but South Berwick still feels plenty rural (so do its home prices). Downtown overlooks the Salmon...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Ellsworth
If location is everything, it’s tough to beat Ellsworth. The “Gateway to Down East and Acadia” is just 15 miles from Acadia National Park but feels well removed from the crush of summertime traffic on...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Westbrook
Like many recent arrivals, Matt McInnis moved to Westbrook because Portland was growing unaffordable. It’s where he and his cofounders based their mushroom-growing business, North Spore, because...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Hampden
Ask Hampden-ites what brought them to town and plenty will credit the school district, which has ranked for years among the state’s best. It’s what lured Shelby Wright and her daughter up from North...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Brunswick
For our 2020 Best Places to Live feature, we asked some of the Down East staff and contributors what makes their town great. Here’s what staff photographer Benjamin Williamson had to say. What I Love...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: North Haven
For our 2020 Best Places to Live feature, we asked some of the Down East staff and contributors what makes their town great. Here’s what contributor Laura Serino had to say. What I Love This place is...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Hope
For our 2020 Best Places to Live feature, we asked some of the Down East staff and contributors what makes their town great. Here’s what editor in chief Brian Kevin had to say. What I Love All the...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Biddeford
For our 2020 Best Places to Live feature, we asked some of the Down East staff and contributors what makes their town great. Here’s what photo director Mark Fleming had to say. What I Love Not only do...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Rangeley
By Mitch BretonPhotographed by Michael D. Wilson See the 11 other Maine towns in our 2020 Best Places to Live feature When the longtime owners of Saddleback Mountain pulled the plug on their Rangeley...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Augusta
By Virginia WrightPhotographed by Michael D. Wilson See the 11 other Maine towns in our 2020 Best Places to Live feature Growing up in Maine’s capital in the ’80s and ’90s, Justin Fecteau thought of...
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The Best Places to Live in Maine Right Now
Community. Natural beauty. Opportunity. Momentum. These 12 Maine towns — from coastal villages to mountain hamlets to the state capital — just might have what you’re looking for in your next home...
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Ben’s Picks
Frozen Camden Photographed by Laura Zamfirescu Winter is a great time of year for photography. I know many people feel that summer is best, but the fact that we have real winters here in Maine sets us...
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Four Maine Maker Happenings We’re Applauding
$29 million Opening-week box office for Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, which stars Saoirse Ronan and also a Civil War-era printing press rented to the production by Portland’s David Wolfe. A collector...
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Ski In, Eat Out at Oxbow’s New Beer Garden
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Cait Bourgault I recently visited Oxbow Beer Garden on a snowy evening. Outside, several pairs of cross-country skis leaned against a wall like tipsy patrons, all...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Ellsworth
If location is everything, it’s tough to beat Ellsworth. The “Gateway to Down East and Acadia” is just 15 miles from Acadia National Park but feels well removed from the crush of summertime traffic on...
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