The Island Institute supports Maine’s island and coastal economy by promoting its artists and makers at this downtown ...

Two decades since first sharing homemade chocolates with friends, the owners of Portland's Dean’s Sweets continue to delight ...

Forty years ago, a novel legal agreement set aside some 18,000 acres in Attean Township for conservation — and timber ...

All-day surf sessions were one inspiration for Faherty's founders to create a quality, comfortable, and laid-back clothing ...

All across Maine, people are getting out to gaze up at the state’s distinctly dark skies — and to help protect them.

Sears Island is a wooded, egg-shaped piece of land in Penobscot Bay, about the size of New York City’s Central Park. Connected to the mainland via causeway, the island could provide commercial access ...

On a recent afternoon in Woolwich, three generations of Hennins guided a visitor across the grounds of the Shelter Institute, offering a nickel tour of the wooded 68-acre campus where tens of ...

John Meader runs a company called Northern Stars Planetarium, traveling around the midcoast and central Maine with an inflatable-dome star theater, for educational programming at schools, public ...

When Kents Hill School students arrived on the central Maine campus to kick off the 2024–25 school year, they were greeted by new head of school, Dr. Molly T. MacKean. The boarding and day school has ...

To understand why Justin and Samantha Juray felt they had no choice other than the hardest choice, it’s important to understand that their business, Just-In-Time Recreation, in Lewiston, is more than ...