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7 Maine-Made Holiday Ornaments to Add to Your Tree
Portlander Mimi Olins’s creamy, free-form stoneware is a perfect foil for menu items at the city’s swanky Twelve restaurant ...
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Finding — and Protecting — Common Ground
The Nature Conservancy knows that healthy ecosystems are essential for people and the planet — and that thriving, sustainable ...
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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Honor Roll
Our salute to the hundreds of Down East readers and fans who have trekked all over the Pine Tree State in pursuit of an ...
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A Hebron Resident’s High-Voltage Holiday Spectacle Stops Traffic
On Thanksgiving, Dan Powell will set his two acres of woods along Route 124 alight with 62,070 LED bulbs worth of twinkling ...
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In Holden, a Police Chief’s Legacy of Generosity Has Been an Arresting Success
The thing about the Holden Police Department is that if Holden wasn’t bisected by a busy stretch of Route 1A, shuttling drivers between the interstate and MDI, the Penobscot County town of a few ...
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Our Towns
Kingfield no longer slumbers after the skiers have gone.
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Mount Desert
MDI has plenty of gems outside the bounds of Acadia National Park.
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Arts & Leisure
Raising crops has always been a difficult way to make a living, but twenty-first century Maine farmers are facing challenges the likes of which they haven't seen before.
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How the Forest Society of Maine Became One of the Nation’s Largest Land Trusts
When Philander and Abner Coburn shuffled off this mortal coil, in 1876 and 1885, respectively, the Skowhegan brothers had hundreds of thousands of acres of Maine woodlands to their exquisite ...