Features
A layoff from Wall Street can lead to new beginnings at an Arundel boatbuilding school.
Junior Achievement of Maine cultivates the business leaders of the future.
Central Maine has become the epicenter of an unlikely religious revival that is quietly transforming the state.
- Photography by: David A. Rodgers
A cabin on Mount Desert Island served as Julia Child’s home away from home.
A Bath-based mobile program teaches underserved Maine children to express themselves.
March will never win the award for Maine’s prettiest month, but on Georgetown Island, where Reid State Park
is a constant bulwark against the stormy Atlantic, there are days when you can experience transcendent moments of breathtaking beauty.
- Photography by: Alan Lavallee
Tourist-dependent Maine businesses find it’s always summer on the Internet.
- Illustrations by: Steve Meyers
Departments
Café Sorpreso is Presque Isle’s delicious surprise.
- Photography by: Jennifer Smith-Mayo
Can you identify this snowy scene?
- Photography by: Sara Gray
Will a scandal persuade Portlanders to elect a mayor?
Combat that spring fever by savoring delicious Maine meals on the cheap. The first of the month kicks off the second annual Maine Restaurant Week (www.restaurantweekme.com) co-sponsored by Down East. More than seventy restaurants, from Natalie’s in Camden to the brand new Sonny’s on Exchange Street, are participating and offering three course feasts for $20.10, $30.10, or $40.10.
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Editorial opinions from across the state.
Photograph by Sally Jacobs
If you’re looking for a way to get from here to there Down East, there’s a new alternative: the Down East Sunrise Trail (www.sunrisetrail.org). This past winter, fifty miles of the multi-use recreational path, from Ayers Junction to Cherryfield, was officially opened. By summer organizers hope to extend the trail all the way to Ellsworth.
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A Brunswick native recalls his winters watching over the town’s outdoor ice rink.
