3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1069+ words) By 8 a.m. on any given Saturday, the bakeries of Portland, Maine, are already in full swing. The city of roughly 70,000 people is home to an astonishing concentration of bakeries whose work rivals anything found in far larger cities. That didn’t happen…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (296+ words) You’re not going to just happen upon Castine. This pretty little seafaring town is located at the very tip of a peninsula reaching into Penobscot Bay in Downeast Maine. Most people don’t make the effort, setting their sights and GPS…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (521+ words) Quarter-size hail and wind gusts as high as 80 miles an hour caused widespread damage in Southern Maine on Thursday, causing power outages for thousands of residents, including an outage that shut down Portland’s main airport for several hours. Thunderstorms rolled…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (877+ words) BIDDEFORD, Maine — The man ICE agents were targeting when an officer fatally shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero here last month did not have a final removal order, US Representative Chellie Pingree said Monday, contradicting the Department of Homeland Security’s account…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (259+ words) A Maine sheriff’s deputy shot a man after he allegedly aimed a gun at law enforcement Monday in Brownfield, according to a statement from the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office. Aric Junkins, 40, of Brownfield, was allegedly chasing his wife with a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (283+ words) Police in the tiny Maine coastal village of Damariscotta were inundated with calls on Tuesday reporting sightings of Bigfoot across town, officials said in a Wednesday social media post, addressing reports of a large and hairy individual roaming about town....