The Bowdoin International Music Festival is one of the world’s premier music institutes. Founded in 1964, the Festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class ...

Shannon Richards thrives on bringing people together. That, combined with her background in building and design and her deep understanding of Maine, led her to found Hay Runner, a real estate, ...

For most Portlanders, the morning of February 4, 1845, called for huddling at home around the fire. Dark clouds and swirling winds had fouled a stretch of clear weather, and the thermometer hung close ...

Thomaston’s newest fast-casual hotspot, Honey’s Fried Chicken Palace, is on a mission to prove that even fast food can be prepared with care, creativity, and attention to detail. The result is crispy, ...

Since its founding in 1983, the nonprofit and its partners have contributed $128 million to Maine conservation, environment, climate, and resilience efforts. In 2011, Maine Farmland Trust acquired a ...

Long before the Portland Hearts of Pine, Maine’s first professional soccer club, kicked off its inaugural season in March, fans were showing their love. Last fall, 4,500 folks put down deposits on ...

Tom Nelson remembers when, in the mid-1960s, his Uncle Bus became the first snowmobile owner in the Piscataquis County town of Dover-Foxcroft. “You wouldn’t have to twist my arm too hard to go up and ...

The first time Josh Rowan laid eyes on Hindu was in 2007, when he agreed to captain it for a friend who ran a charter company in the Florida Keys and Massachusetts. The 1925 schooner had been ...

Maine’s Sea Grant program, responsible for delivering practical scientific know-how to fishing communities, now faces an existential political threat. As traditional fisheries stare down ...

Taken together, these communities possess the best that Maine has to offer: striking vistas, working waterfronts, charming downtowns, and a mix of summer residents and long-time locals working hard to ...

In an industrial park in South Portland’s Cash Corner neighborhood, wedged between auto-body garages and equipment suppliers, a sign with a rainbow bursting out of a welding helmet marks the entrance ...

“We’re trying to take a really beautiful space and use it as our family needs it, versus being so careful about it,” Heather Jackson says, referring to the “indestructible” ...