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What Your Maine Sled Choice Says About You
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What Your Maine Sled Choice Says About You

You can tell a lot about a Mainer by how she chooses to get down a snow-covered hill.
Orr's Island, Maine
Travel & Outdoors

Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from January.
After the Rain, Pete Talbot
Arts & LeisureRoom With a View

The Winter Excuse

It’s the season for finding reasons to remain indoors and stationary, but one bold Mainer will no longer be deterred. (Or will he?)
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Arts & Leisure

GQ: Do We Need It?

In January, GQ magazine correspondent and Colby College grad Drew Magary published a post entitled “Maine: Do We Need It?" Since one good satire deserves another, here's our response.
Dennis Spinney dives for curly-leaf pondweed in West Pond
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Weed Wackers

Southern Maine’s lakes, ponds, and rivers are under siege. Invasive weeds, inadvertently imported on boats from out of state, are choking out native plants, starving fish of oxygen, and restricting boat access.
Random Ideas
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Young Punks

Random Ideas, a rock band formed by teenage triplets, wins over skeptics one power chord at a time.
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