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Over 50 Maine beaches tested positive for potentially unsafe contamination levels last year

by Drew Johnson July 8, 2025July 9, 2025

A nationwide study also found that 15 of the beaches had potentially unsafe levels of fecal bacteria on more than 25% of the days they were tested.

Business, Do This, Guides, Life & Culture, Maine

7 Maine ski resorts that offer summer fun

by Christopher Wheelock June 26, 2025June 12, 2026

With the snow gone, Maine’s ski resorts transition to summer fun with hiking, biking, live music and more.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

The New Yorker’s fact-checking started with a testy letter from a Maine poet’s mother

by Ray Routhier June 26, 2025June 30, 2025

The magazine, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, traces its famously rigorous process to a 1927 letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s mother, pointing out several errors in a story about her daughter.

Sports

ESPN’s Marty Smith loves Maine’s lobster rolls and ‘small-town sensibilities’

by Mike Mandell June 25, 2025June 25, 2025

The Morning Sentinel caught up with the ESPN reporter, who is in Newport to take in the NBA Draft reaction in Cooper Flagg’s hometown.

Maine, News

Where in Maine are you most likely to get a dangerous tick bite?

by Penelope Overton June 23, 2025June 24, 2025

For the last 6 years, the answer has been Hancock, Knox, Lincoln and Waldo counties, according to researchers at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s tick lab.