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From Port Clyde and Monhegan Island northeast through Bucksport, including Rockland, Vinalhaven and North Haven Islands, Camden, Rockport, Lincolnville, Belfast, and Searsport.

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Staycations: Control costs for your Maine vacation

Are you trying to control costs this summer yet yearning for a vacation? Consider a staycation--the trendy term for vacationing at home and doing...

Bourdain in Maine

Yup, it's true. The celebrity chef is coming to Maine in a few weeks to film a Maine show. He'll be visiting four Portland...
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Maine’s Vinalhaven Island: day trip or overnight

Vinalhaven island makes a wonderful day trip. It's also great way to escape a heat wave. Not only is the ferry ride a nice...
Liberty Tools three floors are filled with meticulously sorted tools as well as antiques and ephemera. hilary nangle photo.

Tooling around in Liberty, Maine

Downtown Liberty, Maine, comprises a barely handful of businesses, yet it draws visitors by the thousands each year. It's a bargain-hunters find. For starters, there's...

Midcoast Maine Lighthouse Challenge lets you climb beacon towers

Once each year, seven land-accessible lighthouses along the mid-Maine coast open their towers for the Midcoast Maine Lighthouse Challenge, a two-day self-guided driving tour...
View taking in the pool, staggered cottages, and Penobscot Bay taken from above the lower pool at Glenmoor by the Sea.video

Checking In: Glenmoor by the Sea oceanfront cottage

Each of the 19 cottages and 12 rooms at Glenmoor by the Sea offers ocean views. Amenities at the 12-acre, dog-friendly property in Lincolnville, Maine, include two pools, access to a rocky beach, a generous continental breakfast, a workout room, and two playgrounds.

Natalie’s at the Camden Harbour Inn reopens, launches new menu

Natalie's Restaurant at The Camden Harbour Inn reopened tonight, after a seasonal siesta, with a LOVE-themed party featuring tastings from its new menu. Suffice...

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Chef William Howe's fish chowder aboard the Maine windjammer Angelique. Hilary Nangle photo

Nothing better than fish chowder on a Maine windjammer: Here’s the recipe

“I don’t really use recipes,” says William Howe, chef on the traditional Maine windjammer Angelique as he peels potatoes for the day's fish chowder...

Maine’s lobsteboat race season kicks off today

Gentlemen, start your engines. Yup. Maine's lobsterboat racing season kicks off with races today, Sat. June 19, in Boothbay Harbor and tomorrow, Sun. June...

Andrew Wyeth has died

Andrew Wyeth, famed painter of such iconic works as Christina's World, has died, according to information provided by the Farnsworth Museum of American Art,...

For a topnotch fare, find The Lost Kitchen, in Belfast, Maine

CLOSED. Chef Erin French has taken her show on the road with an Airstream food truck. Chef Matthew Kenney's The Gothic has taken over...
Vegan and vegetarian entrees share the menu with more mainstream choices at Franie & Johnny's, in Cape Neddick, Maine.

Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free fare fills the plate at these Maine restaurants

Health food stores and natural foods groceries, along with Asian, Indian, and Mexican restaurants, are the usual go-tos for on-the-road vegetarians and vegans. While...