Town Manager Andrew Dorr said John Bubier, a retired municipal manager who lives in Yarmouth, will work for the town for 20 to 25 hours per week. He is expected to be on-island one day a week, more often when the work requires.

You won’t hear too many Mainers complain about this summer’s weather. It’s been hot, sunny and dry.

There’s been a lot of buzz about the possibility that Acadia will welcome more than three million visitors in 2016, its centennial year—which would be a leap of 20 percent from just two years ago, and an all-time record for the park. This may well be a temporary spike...

With Maine in the middle of a drought by early August, municipalities vulnerable to water shortages were keeping an eye on their water supplies.

Over the course of three days in April 2007, a storm dumped 8.5 inches of rain over Southern Maine, causing massive flooding, especially where the floodwaters met the sea. The Ogunquit sewer treatment plant, and the access road to the plant, were flooded.

This is the second of a three-part series recollecting the look and feel of Portland in the 1960s, '70s and '80s by a Maine writer who spent his youth there.

In the 1970s, Portland grew up.

Out of my sight on the west side of the island, truly heroic efforts by dozens of area firemen, the Coast Guard and state forest rangers had achieved what had seemed impossible.

"One of the challenges we have is upper floor occupation, second and third floors of some of the larger buildings."
–Gordon Page

A hard-shell lobster cooked in this manner is just as dry and chewy as it sounds.