When Sara White and her husband, Bob, moved to The Highlands retirement community, in Topsham, in 2015, they were eager to connect with their neighbors and establish a new sense of home. While both ...

A one-lane road winds tortuously through a kind of Black Forest of hemlock, spruce, and giant rhododendron, crosses a rushing stream, barely skirts granite outcroppings thick with lichens, drops into ...

When Amy Vachon joined the UMaine Women’s basketball team as a point guard, in 1996, Cindy Blodgett was the leading scorer for the Black Bears and the entire NCAA Division I league. Vachon had been ...

If you’ve ever wondered at a ruby-red cardinal or black-capped chickadee flitting about your frozen yard, you know that winter bird-watching is something to crow about. “Some species that can be ...

Shortly after moving into her Lovell fixer-upper, in 2017, Kimberly Crichton realized she was not alone. The 1920s cottage had stood empty for three years after the prior owner passed away, and mice ...

For decades, Saddlebackers have shared their mountain with the Bicknell’s thrush. Skiers arrive after the rare brown-and-white songbirds head south for the winter and clear out before the birds return ...

Noah Kleiner, an American Mountain Guides Association certified ice instructor, founded the Camden-based Equinox Guiding Service in 2016. Across Maine, he teaches rock climbing and mountaineering and, ...

We canvassed sledders across the state to point you to a few superb slopes, whether you’re chaperoning the kids or grandkids or sneaking in a few runs yourself.

A by-the-numbers look at a unique building's impending facelift at New Gloucester’s Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. Maine through the lens of the late photographer Alec Hartman, a Sabattus artist ...

When she’s back in Maine, find the space archaeologist picnicking on MDI’s Seal Harbor Beach.

R. Scott Baltz's painting, Gold Blue Broken, 24˝ x 30˝, oil on panel, will be given away at our September 1 Art of Giving Gala. Thérèse L. Provenzano was born and raised on Long Island, New York, but ...