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April 2015

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Home + Garden

How to Transition to an Organic Lawn

Nine steps to a healthy and lush organically grown lawn.
ice out on a Maine lake
Travel & Outdoors

Waiting for Ice-Out

On being there — and being present — at the first moment of spring thaw.
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Priceless

Sometimes the only way to explain the allure of nature is to talk dollars and cents.
Features

Maine’s Best New Restaurants

Presenting our 31 favorite Maine restaurants to have opened in the last two years. Hope you're hungry.
Arts & Leisure

5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Portland Sea Dogs

As we gear up for baseball season, a few pieces of left-field Sea Dog trivia.
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Industrial Chic

A eclectic live/work space in one of Portland's emerging creative neighborhoods.
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Welcome to Mud Season in Maine

In which we muckrake about the season that turns our world into mush.
Where in Maine, April 2015
Where in Maine?

April’s Where in Maine?

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from April.
Food & Drink

Erin French: Lost in Transition

At home in Freedom, chef Erin French of the Lost Kitchen is rebuilding a restaurant — and a life.
Home + Garden

The Secret Lives of Houses

Got 100-year-old shoes in your walls? Beneath layers of wallpaper and dropped ceilings lie clues to your old home's hidden story.
Samuel James and Jim LeJames of Kitty Critic
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Play, Paws, Record

Samuel James and Jim LeJames are bringing Portland's music scene to new ears — pointy, fuzzy ears.
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Dear Millinocket

A chat with the man behind the pull-no-punches open letter to Maine’s most visibly struggling mill town.
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