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Issues & Politics

So Your Maine Home Is Suddenly Worth More Than You Thought!

But if you sell, you’ll be left house-hunting in a seller’s market. So what’s a Maine homeowner to do?
Home + Garden

With Grit and $130,000, They Built Their Dream Home

Peek inside Ariel Birke and Luke Olson's 960-square-foot modernist abode in Lincolnville.
Home + Garden

In Marianne Kane’s Gorham Home, More Trees Are Merrier

And Christmas lasts all year.
Home + Garden

Innkeeper’s Quarters

Peek inside Alice Amory's heirloom-filled Lincolnville home.
Bull market: A male and female taxidermy moose sold for $4,500 and $1,600, respectively. Their new home is the Lobster Pound, in nearby Lincolnville Beach.
Issues & Politics

Going, Going, Gone: The Colorful Vestiges of MBNA’s Lavish Midcoast Legacy

Last month's auction of a former retreat center felt like an epilogue to an era of corporate largesse.
The AnchoBurger at Ancho Honey in Tenants Harbor, Maine
Food & Drink

Ancho Honey’s Delicious Timing

What happens when you start serving ready-made meals right before a pandemic?
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Issues & Politics

Is Maine Ready for an Influx of Homebuyers From Away?

The real estate surge is testing Mainers’ chronically uneasy relationship with outsiders.
Home + Garden

They Call Their Artful Island Home Hytte

In South Bristol, a scientist/shellfish entrepreneur’s quirky compound becomes a cheerful retreat for a large Norwegian family.
Chris Newell, Maine's Wabanaki Museum, Abbe Museum
Arts & Leisure

Maine’s Wabanaki Museum Has Its First Ever Wabanaki Director

Chris Newell followed a winding trail to his new role as executive director of the Abbe Museum. Now, as Maine’s museum of Wabanaki culture confronts both the pandemic and its own colonialist underpinnings, he’s helping blaze a new one.
Mé Lon Togo, Camden, MaineThe space has a charming patio4
Restaurant Reviews

Now in Camden, Mé Lon Togo is Still Cooking

The pandemic closed Togolese drummer/chef Jordan Benissan's Waterville restaurant — so he opened another one.
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Travel & Outdoors

5 Under-the-Radar Shops on the Pemaquid Peninsula

Bristol is big on art, curios, and handmade treasures, if you know where to look.
Home + Garden

A Couple Moves Upta Camp — For Good

How a three-seasons camp on the Pemaquid Peninsula became a four-seasons home
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