One morning this past spring, after commercial elver fishermen had met their quotas and elver buyers had closed up shop for the season, two fyke nets showed up where the Megunticook River empties into ...

Every year, around Halloween, sculptor William Janelle would earn a little extra money carving faces on gourds in front of crowds at shopping centers, theme parks, and fall festivals. It wasn’t really ...

The inaugural director of the recently established School of Computer Science and Data Analytics believes “that innovation occurs at the intersection of different disciplines.” Sponsored University of ...

Thirty-three years after she began farming on a Brooksville plot formerly owned by back-to-the-landers Helen and Scott Nearing, Barbara Damrosch remains utterly beguiled by what she manages to coax ...

Logan Rackliff, a fifth-generation lobsterman, knows rope. He grew up surrounded by hard-working entrepreneurs in midcoast Maine, was hauling traps at age six, and captaining his own boat at age 10.

Southern Maine Running parallel to Interstate 295 from Brunswick to South Portland and then alongside Interstate 95 until it reaches ...

Author and sports marketing expert Norm O’Reilly will call on his industry know-how in his new role as UNE’s inaugural College of Business dean. This fall, the University of New England welcomed ...

Before you get cute and ask: no, there is no candlestick maker at downtown Bangor’s The Butcher The Baker. Nor does the name refer neatly to co-owners Carl Birmingham and Brittany LeVasseur — chef and ...

A woman in so exclusive a gentlemen’s club as the United States Senate is bound to stand out. She naturally attracts more attention than 99 men. A visitor to the Senate Chamber looks around and says: ...

As a top high-school soccer recruit from Waterloo, Ontario, Abby Kraemer set her sights on the University of Maine. “There were a lot of people who were like, ‘Where’s Maine?’” Kraemer says. “But I ...

Got any big Maine Needham Day plans? Wait, you didn’t know the last Saturday in September is officially designated as Maine Needham Day? Oh, you say you’re a bit fuzzy on what exactly are the tiny, ...

When Kerry and Chris Stetson bought their Yarmouth home, in 2009, they looked forward to planting a big vegetable garden in the backyard. They rototilled a 90-by-30-foot patch, added manure from their ...