Maine bucked nationwide drop in home sales in April

You can take an Aroostook ‘Roadside Joyride on Route 1’

“In my little chunk of road I knew that there were tons of roadside stands and we could become something to see, not just my stand."

Bangor hasn’t started ‘formal search’ for new fire chief month after abrupt departure

Fire Chief Geoffrey Low resigned June 5 in the middle of a three-year contract. An interim chief was appointed the same day.

Maine’s 10 most expensive home sales from June

Maine’s most expensive residential property sales last month all surpassed $3 million, they are not as pricey as some of the commercial real estate transactions from the same time frame.

World’s largest gingerbread village will come to Aroostook this month

Gingerbread Lane, created by Jon Lovitch of New York, was first dubbed by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest gingerbread village in 2013.

Inmates grow vegetables at midcoast garden as its food security programs expand

The Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center Garden grows hundreds of thousands of pounds of produce for the emergency food system and provides job-training and rehabilitation to inmates preparing to reenter society.