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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from December's photo.
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“Free Little Art Galleries” Are Catching on in Rural Maine

A largely urban phenomenon elsewhere, these small galleries are providing new, tiny outlets for local (and not-so-local) artists.
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The Restaurateurs Who Traded a Coastal Lobster Shack for an Aroostook Roadhouse

For Dawn Bernier, taking over Dean’s Motor Lodge has been both heart-wrenching and heartwarming.
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Waterford Puzzle Company’s Popularity Isn’t So Puzzling

Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton, and Queen Elizabeth are among former customers of what is now Waterford Puzzle Company.
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Locally Farmed and Foraged Ingredients Shine at Biddeford’s Magnus on Water

Most everything on the menu comes from the surrounding area, including the sea salt extracted from water collected at nearby Fortunes Rocks Beach.
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from October’s photo.
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Ben’s Picks: 20 of 2021’s Best Maine Landscape and Wildlife Photos

Down East staff photographer Benjamin Williamson's favorite shots of the year.
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How Half a Million Tons of Salt Finds Its Way to Maine’s Roads

The stockpiles on South Portland’s waterfront are halfway through a surprisingly epic journey.
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Dajuan Eubanks’s Favorite Maine Place

Maine Celtics president Dajuan Eubanks, on the Moose River in Rockwood.
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Sulking in a Winter Wonderland

For writer Ron Currie, a Maine winter can bring with it a troubled mind. Might an idyllic mountain retreat offer refuge?
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Studio Artisane Is Out to Demystify the Woodshop

Want to build your own coffee table or pendant light? Falmouth’s Sandrine Moser will show you how.
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The Jazz Flower host Sufiyah Asia Yasmine is bringing a new sound to Maine Public Classical.
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