An early watercolor of a Rockland scene

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Wyeth’s Rockland work jogs memories

By Nancy Griffin The late Andrew Wyeth, one of America’s most famous artists, is well-known for his Maine paintings of people and scenes from Port Clyde to Cushing. He is less known for Rockland paintings, but they exist and are on display through February at the Farnsworth Art Museum. A… SEE MORE
John Zavodny

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John Zavodny named president of Maine Seacoast Mission

The Maine Seacoast Mission has announced that John Zavodny, Ph.D., will be its new president beginning on Feb. 19. "During our interviews with him, his excitement and compassion for the work of the Mission and an understanding of life in rural Maine were evident," said Stacy Smith, the board chairwoman. "He… SEE MORE
Tom Sexton

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In Eastport, a poet of the edges

By Dana Wilde Long ago, when I was a kid growing up in Southern Maine, we made road trips to Massachusetts to visit my father’s family. This was the late 1950s and early ’60s. Route 1 from about New Hampshire turned into a reeling commotion of cars and trucks, diesel… SEE MORE
Luke Holden displaying fresh product.

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Luke’s Lobster to enter Portland market

By Stephanie Bouchard In the last weeks of 2018, Luke’s Lobster, a restaurant group with Maine roots, announced it is opening its first Portland-based restaurant. It will be the second Luke’s Lobster restaurant in Maine. A restaurant in Tenants Harbor has been open seasonally since 2016. Co-founded by Luke Holden,… SEE MORE
Don Bostick

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‘Hello Sailor’ finds homeport in Newcastle

Hello Sailor T-shirt By Sally Noble//Photos by Michele Stapleton A happily married couple, they packed their memories of long, lazy summer vacations—like that of their first meeting, in 2003, at campcamp.com, a free-spirited gay camp in the Maine woods. Weary of their frenetic life in the Washington D.C. area, filled… SEE MORE