When the operators of Harris Dam send thousands of cubic feet of water downstream, the river, otherwise sedate and cobble strewn, springs to life.

The forest is falling away behind us when Scot Bubier turns his hatchback off the dirt road he calls Smuggler’s Lane and into a meadow, following a track of flattened grass. To our right is the edge ...

Mid-1800s newspaper ads proclaiming “WATERFORD WATER CURE!” beckoned the sick and feeble to the Maine Hydropathic Institute. There, they would receive treatment, as the New York Tribune put it, “in ...

Yarmouth author Leela Marie Hidier’s 2022 Changes in the Weather, written in the Telling Room’s Young Emerging Authors program, earned her a Hindi’s Libraries Females of Fiction Award and a recent ...

On a recent Friday evening, Novel (643 Congress St., Portland. 207-370-9593.)was humming, a cross-generational gang of regulars was sipping Pabst Blue Ribbon, whiskey on the rocks, and White Russians ...

Supplies delivered by dogsled, more companies making PPE, and a Maine-made COVID-19 test promising results in minutes, not days. Convenience-store clerk and dogsled racer Hannah Lucas has been mushing ...

The four-faced, 18-foot-tall Hay & Peabody clock started counting time in 1925, commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of an eponymous funeral home on Congress Street. By 2017, its cast-iron body ...

HEAVYWEIGHT: A colonel who held back Confederate troops at the Battle of Gettysburg, Joshua Chamberlain served four terms as Maine’s governor, until 1870, before becoming president of Bowdoin College.

It’s true, there are plenty of fish in the sea. Maine fishermen, though, haven’t had much choice but to leave them there. Over the past several decades, the state’s groundfishing fleet dwindled ...

The century-old Snell Family Farm, in Buxton, is usually pretty quiet in early spring. I live down the road, and I’ve roasted the Snells’ beets, sautéed their garlic scapes, and planted my garden with ...