Sylvan Gallery in Wiscasset recently added Roberta Goschke to its lineup of contemporary New England fine artists. This acclaimed Maine artist is a seasoned plein air painter whose work combines impressionistic color and expressive brushwork with realistic structure, often depicting the light and atmosphere of Maine’s working harbors, rocky coastal views, rural landscape and many […]
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Wiscasset Bay Gallery exhibition features 19th- and 20th-century artists
“Spring Arrivals – Three Centuries of American and European Art” at Wiscasset Bay Gallery will open on Saturday, May 24, in celebration of the gallery’s 41st season. Featuring works by prominent 19th- and 20th-century American artists as well as European realists, impressionists and modernists, the exhibition will include a diverse array of subject matters from […]
Owlbear’s Rest board game cafe opening in Westbrook
The venue is slated to launch May 30 in Stockhouse Station.
Maine’s lobster industry broke records. Inflation tells a different story.
The fishery hit historic highs in 2021 and 2024, but the numbers aren’t as rosy as they seem.
Terlingua opening market and all-day cafe on Washington Avenue
The Terlingua Outpost is expected to launch early this summer.
Former Patriots Super Bowl champ reads to kids at Kennebunkport school
Malcolm Mitchell visited Kennebunkport Consolidated School this month to share his experience with reading and encourage kids to follow their dreams.
Go see the alewives as they migrate up Maine rivers — and hurry | Column
The sea-run fish are still making their way to the lakes and ponds where they spawn.
The rise and fall of Morse High School’s namesake — Bath’s ‘Ice King’
In mid-October 1907, one of the greatest financial panics in American history sparked when a stock takeover by “one of the most powerful bankers in the nation” failed. That banker was a man from Bath. Charles Wyman Morse was born in Bath on Oct. 21, 1856, to Benjamin W. Morse and Anna E.J. Morse. The […]
Candidates outline their priorities for Cumberland and MSAD 51 offices
On June 10, Cumberland voters will decide who serves on the Town Council and Cumberland-North Yarmouth school board, and whether to approve the school budget.
Native plants can transform your yard and the planet
Soon, we’ll spend more time outside, enjoying the spectacular green and exploding colors of what we may have planted in years past or early spring. Perhaps much of your landscape is a turfgrass lawn, which became popular in the United States in the 1870s and has since become the dominant idea in residential and commercial […]