After more than two centuries, the family-owned hardware store still carries the basics that Eastporters need to keep their ...

Carving’s the easy part,” Gilley says, “but painting a tiny bird or one with complicated plumage can drive you half crazy.” ...

Residents of Blueberry Fields Cooperative leveraged a new law (and raised $26 million) to buy the land beneath their homes.

From pomegranate frosted to classic chocolate, these are the doughnuts our staff loves the most.

There’s a modest plaque on a slab of stone off Old County Road in Rockport, in the yard of what is now the Nativity Lutheran Church. “In Commemoration,” it begins, in capital letters. “This is the ...

Nominate Your Faves in the 2025 Best of Maine Reader Poll! Bookstores to burgers, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects — we want to know what Maine businesses and organizations YOU are ...

On a bright, blustery afternoon last spring, six women rowers gathered next to a shingled equipment shed on Belfast Harbor and began putting on sweatbands and slim, inflatable life jackets. They ...

When Mario and Kitty Costello unpacked their new leprechaun-green kitchen cabinets, their teenage daughters threw some shade. “They were like, ‘Seriously, that’s the color you picked?’” Kitty says.

The bar at the Somerset Pour House was bustling on a Saturday afternoon this winter. The lone server juggled drink and food orders, bantered with regulars, and seemed to know everyone’s usual by heart ...