Bar Harbor business owners, from restaurants and shops to hotels and vacation rentals, are reeling from an executive order by Gov. Janet Mills that effectively prohibits out-of-staters from traveling to Maine this summer.

For some fishermen, Maine’s aquaculture industry has been a thorny subject that includes concerns like navigational safety and environmental health.

Seventeen houses. I don’t feel our list of “needs” was unusual for first-time homebuyers. Yet, in March and April of last year, my husband and I trudged through the snow and mud in 17 dooryards to finally find the home that would become ours.

We have learned that if a community is unwelcoming it may not matter how much effort goes into solving other problems…

In a world churning with change, there is a workshop in a cove in Georgetown where the strength of bronze has withstood the test of time. Spartan Marine makes the case that there are some things better left unchanged.

“An engineer … told me we just narrowly avoided catastrophic failure…” —Tora Johnson

Yes, we have internet, but… That’s the response from business owners, healthcare professionals, educators, and more

“You feel hopeless when one federal judge can change things with a stroke of a pen.” —Lee Watkinson

When markets are strong, there is no incentive to think outside the box.