"I went to Calais because I heard about something I could not accept…” —Izza Drury

A $1.8 million gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation tops off the funding needed to complete a $5.8 million expansion of the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education.

I didn’t expect to be working on two plays simultaneously, but working with such dedicated actors and crew has been invigorating.

A circus arts school recently formed in Biddeford will bring classes to the coast this summer.

As a black man on a largely white coast, and as an artist, not a fisherman, he became a central part of his island community…

There was a comfort in revisiting the landscape of my childhood and walking through the woods…

Mainers commonly travel during the winter, and Andrea Shane and Skyler Sanborn, both of Vinalhaven, are no different. But Shane and Sanborn, 2016 graduates of Vinalhaven High School, are spending time in Guatemala as part of a gap year before college.

“It makes us enjoy our state more by having her here.”

—Amy Goodwin

When Washington Academy first opened its doors in 1792, its namesake—yes, the father of our country, George Washington—was still president. The private high school in East Machias that serves students from 27 Washington County towns and a couple of dozen countries...