The hotel was closed for three months while undergoing a complete renovation of all 51 rooms, common spaces and its restaurant and bar.
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Maine is home to lady slippers of the land and sea
They’re weird but beautiful. Part of the allure is that they are also rare and that they are harbingers of spring. These pink forest flowers quietly emerge each year flashing a pink blossom among the otherwise pale green palette. Like fiddleheads, which I wrote about a few weeks ago, lady slippers are early spring flowers, […]
A recipe for a state budget that supports Mainers
It’s officially budget season — the time of the legislative session when legislators in Augusta make difficult decisions about how best to allocate the state’s resources in ways that benefit the hardworking people of Maine. But as we look south to Washington, D.C., it’s increasingly likely the federal budget will cause more harm than good. […]
Maine Art Gallery to host talk featuring current ‘Whimsy’ exhibition
How hard could it be to glue bits of paper and other materials to a flat surface? Maine Art Gallery will host a talk to answer just that at 4 p.m. Thursday, June 5. “Collage: The Sum of its Parts” will feature several artists participating in the gallery’s “Whimsy: Flights of Fancy” exhibition — Robin […]
From the Chocolate Church: Bath arts center welcomes Arabic and Colombian music ensembles
Within less then a week apart, the Chocolate Church Arts Center will host two very different musical ensembles from very different parts of the globe and very different (but both awesome) musical styles. The first group, made up of 11 musicians from our very own Midcoast Maine, plays a wide array of Arabic music. The […]
Brunswick teacher takes student experiments on Zero-G flight
St. John’s science teacher Karin Paquin flew in microgravity earlier this month through the Space for Teachers program.
Reflecting on our work to protect and preserve Maine’s environment
As Senate chair of the Legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee (also known as ENR), I’ve spent much of my first five months in office discussing the most pressing environmental issues facing our state. I’ve heard from so many Mainers coming to testify about the challenges of coastal erosion, water pollution, waste, plastics, PFAS, extreme […]
Quebecois band blows into Boothbay Harbor Opera House
Le Vent du Nord takes the Opera House stage on June 7.
Bath softball fundraiser goes to bat for service and therapy dogs
The Bath American Legion Smith Tobey Post 21 returns to the softball field to raise money for the Oxford-based nonprofit Mission Working Dogs.
Historical archaeologist to discuss survey of Damariscotta’s Chapman-Hall House
Historical archaeologist Tim Dinsmore, who headed the 2022 archaeological survey of the grounds of the 1754 Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta, will discuss the objectives and results of his work from 12:30-4 p.m. Saturday, May 31. One of the oldest standing houses in Damariscotta, this house museum, maintained by Lincoln County Historical Association, is located at […]