After a long hard process, we have decided not to open this year,' Alison Welch of Wilton, daughter of owner Sharon Rainey, ...

Unless something changes soon, Houlton Regional Hospital will become the 10th Maine hospital in a decade to close its ...

In a political world that often feels cold and calculated, Sen. Collins shows heart. She listens. She acts. And for my family ...

Mount Vernon and Vienna, population 2,334, share a library whose staff is the epitome of grace and good manners. The library offers all kinds of services including inter-library loan, which I use a ...

For most of my seven decades the cry has been to cut taxes for the rich, make deductions, exemptions, loopholes and outright handouts to the rich. The rich will take the money and trickle it on down ...

President Donald Trump, in his Easter greeting to the nation, could not resist turning it into yet another of his political jabs at President Biden. After his general statement, at the end of his ...

This week’s poem, Lynne Benoit’s “Limington,” offers a nuanced portrait of an aging grandfather and the past. I love this ...

What do Donald Trump, Cher and John Mishler have in common? Answer: we will all be 79 in 2025. A problem? Well, some 11 months ago, there was a “…national obsession with respect to the age of both our ...

I strongly support Rep. Laurel Libby’s right to voice her opinion on the rights of biological and nonbinary women without censure. What she should apologize for is for posting a teen’s identity and ...

A delightful, laugh-out-loud funny picture book from Midcoast writer and illustrator X. Fang.

The latest fundraiser for Make It Happen, Portland Public Schools’ college readiness program for multilingual students, was perfectly aligned with the way the program celebrates diversity while ...

• Mt. Ararat: Andrew Clemons (1 for 2, two RBI, walk; 6 IP, five hits, two ER, five strikeouts), Tyler Thibeault (4 for 4, ...