Fighting bugs with bugs: How the midcoast is defending its hemlocks

Police find 2 dead in Rumford

Rumford police requested help from the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit, who have started an investigation.

Longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes to retire, citing differences with Pentagon leadership

The longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes has announced his retirement, ending a decades-long career with the military newspaper as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon moves to exert editorial control and eliminate what it asserts are “woke distractions.” Max D. Lederer Jr. announced his retirement, effective at the end of September, in a memo to […]

Rescue mission is called off for NASA's aging Swift space telescope

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year. NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news more than a month after the startup’s Link spacecraft rocketed away to the telescope’s rescue. Katalyst said Link will not […]

Read our big scoop: Ice-cream cones, the ingenious invention of American immigrants

DETROIT (AP) — Read this quickly, before it melts. Ice cream was a rare and expensive treat for centuries because of the difficulty of storing ice. In the summer of 1790, President George Washington spent $200 on ice cream, the equivalent of $7,259 today, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. By the 1800s, inventions […]

Wilson Museum to host third annual Artisan Market & Picnic celebrating traditional craftsmanship

CASTINE — On Saturday, Aug. 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Wilson Museum, 112 Perkins St., will host its third annual Artisan Market & Picnic. The event will showcase local and regional creators who work with traditional materials and techniques to produce original, one-of-a-kind pieces.  For more than a century, the Wilson Museum […]