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Rockland’s ‘rise and renewal’ documented in new history

John Bird speaks at the Farnsworth Art Museum. PHOTO: JACK SULLIVAN By Tom Groening Today, Rockland is a lively, commercially diverse service center. In summer, tourism dominates the downtown, thanks to the Farnsworth Art Museum, galleries, schooners, and several fine restaurants and coffee shops. The city also boasts a large… SEE MORE
Reilly's Bakery

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Old bakery serves new Biddeford

By Sally Noble In a town brimming with youth, Reilly’s Bakery, a Biddeford Main Street institution for 100 years, thrives as an old-fashioned landmark.  Confections are packaged with genuine kindness and boxes are delicately tied with string. If the Hallmark Channel came to Biddeford, this is where they’d set up… SEE MORE
Dan DeBord

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Monhegan recognized with Community Champion award

For a small island, Monhegan has faced some big challenges in recent years: the prospect of floating wind turbines just off its shore; a freshwater aquifer threatened by saltwater incursion; an aging diesel-generator powered electric grid; the lack of high-speed internet. But that small island—whose year-round population numbers under 50—has… SEE MORE