Midcoast store owner back home after release from ICE custody

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.

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.

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.

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 last blueberry rake maker hopes to rebuild after fire destroys workshop

Ike Hubbard, 84, designed and made tools for working the land by hand for decades in the Hubbard Rake Co. shop at his historical family homestead.