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Her cut-glass creations, some nearly three feet tall, are designed to bounce color and light around a room.
With increasingly frequent run-ins between pinnipeds and humans, the nonprofit's passionate crew is constantly on call.
The first-place winners in all three categories will appear in the 2024 April issue of Down East magazine and win a Sea Bag!
The menu at the new Portland restaurant skews toward Thai street food.
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From clogs to craft kits to greeting cards, there’s a beautiful locally sourced gift for everyone who’s been good (for goodness sake).
Her cut-glass creations, some nearly three feet tall, are designed to bounce color and light around a room.
With increasingly frequent run-ins between pinnipeds and humans, the nonprofit's passionate crew is constantly on call.
The first-place winners in all three categories will appear in the 2024 April issue of Down East magazine and win a Sea Bag!
The menu at the new Portland restaurant skews toward Thai street food.
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They moved out, then put their kitchen and living-room reno budget toward remediation.
After seven years devoted to gin, the company is out with a bourbon line.
The chef at Portland’s Sur Lie and Yarmouth’s Gather says you must resist the urge to sear the flaky groundfish.
For the third year in a row, Governor Mills will decorate the Blaine House with a tree grown by the winner of the Fryeburg Fair’s People’s Choice Christmas Tree competition.
Owner Kate Shaffer’s new scone, cake, and brownie mixes make whipping up bakeshop-quality treats a breeze.
An archive of 19th-century cure-alls, the LaVerdiere Apothecary is a main attraction of the recently reopened Redington Museum.
Food & Drink
Chef Neil Zabriskie’s take on a Mexican classic relies on flint corn grown at the Somali Bantu Community Association’s Liberation Farm.
A new and improved class of booze-less beer has bubbled up around the state.
Craft beer became big business, but some brewers say they’re perfectly happy remaining micro.
Travel & Outdoors
Fall road-trip recs, for whatever kind of leaf peeper you happen to be.
They’re not the stuff of epic road trips — in fact, none are more than a few miles long.
You don’t need to be a grizzled thru-hiker to enjoy the remotest stretch of the Appalachian Trail.
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Photography
In warmer months, hiking and fishing are popular activities.
The Natural Resources Council of Maine CEO is captivated by Acadia’s Wonderland Trail.
Photographers Dave Waddell and Tristan Spinski hit the road (and the water) to see what keeps these far-flung holdouts ticking.
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Arts & Leisure
Want to be wowed this holiday season? In Maine, there’s no shortage of groups taking merrymaking to the next level.
Now celebrating its fifth year, the free monthly journal publishes in seven languages.
Two years into a family hiking challenge, David Blanchard received a life-changing diagnosis. Instead of letting it sideline him, he picked up the pace.
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