The “Quiet Side” of Mount Desert Island engenders devotion by the people who live there. That’s the case of four Southwest Harbor businessmen who are seeking to enhance the community’s well-being and provide economic stimulus...

The new Schoodic Marine Center is opening soon for its first season and could boost visitation as well as facilitate on-the-water education and research opportunities in the less-visited part of Acadia National Park.

Charles Coffin, the hermit, was born in 1894 and died Nov. 15, 1941 at the age of 47.

Great Cranberry Island’s 40 or so year-round residents know that if roads need to be plowed, trees cut, fields mowed, firewood split, land cleared, wells drilled or anything hauled, they can call Blair Colby.

April is like a friend who insists on giving me occasional gifts I never asked for or wanted or would dare to give anyone else.

DOT is offering two new design concepts. A bypass is not an option in either proposal.

Not only did Bucksport lose the paper mill business and jobs that sustained its economy and tax base when Verso closed its operation there, but the mill itself will be scrapped and hauled away. In that fate lies opportunity, tied to the town’s status as a port community.

Maine business and government officials are expecting The Cat—the new high-speed catamaran ferry service between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia—will deliver an economic boost when it begins service on June 15.

Carolann Ouellette, director of the Maine Office of Tourism, said some 33 million people visited Maine in 2015, and paid accommodations were up 8 percent over 2014.