Thanks to the Farnsworth Art Museum for use of the photos.   [caption id="attachment_28820" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Bertram Peabody and son clam digging on Beals Island, 1971.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_28821" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Painted lobster buoys, Stonington, 1971.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_28822" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Walt Anderson, Port Clyde, 1971.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_28823" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Vernon Woodward and James Polkl in Jonesport, 1971.[/caption]  …

This summer, $40 million was added to the state budget for the Land for Maine’s Future program, normally funded by a bond submitted to voters. No reason was given by…

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Take a journey with me, back to the year 1247. We’re in a walled city in what today is Belgium, and like many towns, it employs a town crier. Let’s…

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The past and the future of Portland’s working waterfront will be melded together when the Gulf of Maine Research Institute completes its purchase of Union Wharf from the Poole family,…

In a referendum on Nov. 2, a strong majority of Bar Harbor voters chose to cap the number of vacation units at 9 percent of the town’s total number of…