Residents of Blueberry Fields Cooperative leveraged a new law (and raised $26 million) to buy the land beneath their homes.

Wendell Gilley of Southwest Harbor is a near-legend among admirers of carved birds. Over a period of 35 years, he has produced more than 6,000 carvings, some selling for several thousand dollars.

There’s a modest plaque on a slab of stone off Old County Road in Rockport, in the yard of what is now the Nativity Lutheran Church. “In Commemoration,” it begins, in capital letters. “This is the ...

From pomegranate frosted to classic chocolate, these are the doughnuts our staff loves the most.

On a bright, blustery afternoon last spring, six women rowers gathered next to a shingled equipment shed on Belfast Harbor and began putting on sweatbands and slim, inflatable life jackets. They ...

Nominate Your Faves in the 2025 Best of Maine Reader Poll! Bookstores to burgers, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects — we want to know what Maine businesses and organizations YOU are ...

When Mario and Kitty Costello unpacked their new leprechaun-green kitchen cabinets, their teenage daughters threw some shade. “They were like, ‘Seriously, that’s the color you picked?’” Kitty says.

The bar at the Somerset Pour House was bustling on a Saturday afternoon this winter. The lone server juggled drink and food orders, bantered with regulars, and seemed to know everyone’s usual by heart ...

Late one afternoon last March, the sun was going down and so was the temperature. Alan Greene, sporting his usual black Carhartt overalls and a handlebar mustache, hopped into his pickup and drove ...

Over 30 years working as an environmental scientist and planner, quilting had been Judy Gates’s creative outlet. But in 2020, the medium had her feeling boxed in. “I wanted a way to still use fabric ...