In the 1960s, you have to remember, Commercial Street still stank of the fish meal plant, and traffic barreled unencumbered by rules of the road…

On Thursday, June 16 the film “A New England Story for Sustaining the Sea” will be shown at the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free Library. A discussion following the film will include two panelists familiar with the needs of stakeholders working to maintain the diverse uses of the ocean.

The draft of a first-ever plan for the ocean was released May 25, launching a new way of considering a host of marine uses for the region from Connecticut to the Canadian border.

Topsham: From the River to the Highlands

By Robert C. Williams

Just Write Books, Topsham, Maine, 2015

Schreiber has an ear for Downeast language and dialogue; reading these stories, we hear their tellers clearly.

The sale or loss of key community spaces can be a sign of a community at risk of losing itself.

There was plenty of friendly and frank talk about the business of being an old-fashioned kind of organization…

A frenzy of consumption is underway that makes hyenas around a fallen wildebeest look like dinner with Martha Stewart.

Benjamin Stevens of Islesford (Little Cranberry Island) graduated this month from Maine Maritime Academy in Castine.