4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1540+ words) Holding a piece of the Moon sounds like something reserved for astronauts, yet one small museum in western Maine lets visitors get surprisingly close to that experience. Inside the two-floor building, colorful tourmaline glows beneath display lights while pull-out drawers…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (183+ words) Rachel Worster Hunter died at her Macwahoc Plantation home on Jan. 8, 2025, after 10 ambulance services refused to drive to her home. She died from low potassium, a medical condition she had long grappled with, according to her husband, Michael Hunter. Rachel…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (176+ words) Singleton had 18 completions for 250 yards and three scores in the first half as App State led 31-0. Singleton connected with Sam Pickett III for touchdowns of 14 and 7 yards in the second quarter. Jaquari Lewis added a 12-yard touchdown run on App…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (157+ words) Robert Carlton was selected Maine County Official of August in honor of his community service by Spirit of America Foundation’s Maine Chapter. Carlton has served four years as a commissioner of Franklin County, including some time as commission chair. In…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (469+ words) Summer’s not over yet. And what better place to soak in the last bit of warm weather than a private island off the coast of Maine or in one of the state’s thousands of lakes? We found three such islands…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (52+ words) Dozens of families in the Bangor area assembled and launched model rockets into the sky on Saturday morning. Serious violent and sexual offenders may be confined to areas of just a few miles after... Dozens of families in the Bangor…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (649+ words) Maine’s seagrass meadows are shrinking and thinning. And this isn’t the only place where seagrass is declining. These underwater meadows off Maine’s coast are part of a global, decades-long pattern of loss believed to be driven by development and human…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (372+ words) In a rare appearance, one of the world’s top fusion belly dancers is coming to Belfast and Brooks for workshops, a performance intensive, one-night-only show BELFAST — You’ve never seen belly dance like this before! Internationally acclaimed fusion belly dancer Zoe…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (564+ words) An artificial intelligence startup that lets police officers generate incident reports from body camera footage is expanding its foothold in Maine. Code Four, which first entered the state when it provided its software to Wilton police, now has a contract…...

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…...