Fogtown Brewing Company, in Ellsworth, worked with Shimmerwood Beverages to jump on two bandwagons at once, riding both the spiked-seltzer and the CBD crazes. Shimmer Seltzer, a CBD-infused seltzer ...

The shop floor at Lewiston shoemaker Rancourt & Co. was a cacophony of whirring, snipping, and clattering on a recent afternoon, with some 40 employees hard at work at cutting, sewing, and polishing ...

What makes a neighborhood restaurant click? Well, for starters, it ought to be filled with neighbors. That sure seemed to be the case when my wife and I stopped into Linden + Front, in Bath, on a ...

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 ...

For decades, Linda Perry has been hand-dyeing yarn to knit tams, blankets, shawls, and more. Her new shop sells her hand-painted yarns — with colors inspired by lupines, the ocean, the woods — along ...

For 50 years the midcoast Maine preserve has been educating visitors on how its gardens grow — and much, much more. Mary Ellen Ross grew up surrounded by plants. The daughter of a Connecticut ...

[I] admit it: I assumed “Anju” — the name of Julian Armstrong and Gary Kim’s innovative Asian restaurant in Kittery Foreside — meant “pear.” Not only is the restaurant’s logo a pear, but the word also ...

The exterior of Karen and Ford Reiche’s waterfront home, in Freeport, riffs on an 1899 Shingle-style Islesboro cottage designed by famed architect Fred Savage. But the interior is straight out of ...

The late Elroy “Snoody” Johnson, of Harpswell’s Bailey Island, was something of a Maine fishing dignitary. A regular presence at the Maine State House, lobbying legislators on behalf of fishermen, he ...

First-time visitors to Vesta might note the bubbly elliptical pizzas and plates of pecorino-studded rigatoni on their neighbors’ tables and figure they’re in for homey trattoria fare. Then again, they ...

The Maine woods have not been treated gently these past 400 years. Once European settlers had a toehold, they set to felling trees to build homes, open up fields, and make money. White pine was “the ...

On a chilly afternoon, homebuilder Chase Morrill crouches in the crawlspace beneath a slim A-frame in Carrabassett Valley, installing an electric water heater. He calls this rustic house “The Bucking ...