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Contributing editor Edgar Allen Beem has been writing for Down East since 1983.
The ins, outs, and issues surrounding the new players in public education.
Artists Todd Watts and Jemma Gascoine traded the big city for a tiny village.
Yarmouth’s hulking power plant faces an uncertain future. By Edgar Allen Beem The view from Portland’s Eastern Promenade and from...
Just two years after consumer fireworks were legalized in Maine, a move is under way to ban them again.
A run on firewood in 2014 may be making for some smokeless chimneys this winter.
Diagnosed with ALS, acclaimed painter Jon Imber reached ever deeper into his creative well.
Will Carcinus maenas destroy Maine's $15 million soft-shell clam industry?
Maine has the nation’s third highest rate of Lyme disease, but the illness
remains misunderstood and is often misdiagnosed.
Gateway to opportunity or toll on the environment?