Home and Garden

Pet cockatiel has flown the coop

CAMDEN — The Berez family of Camden is looking for one of their pet cockatiels, Pepper, after she flew out the door to a tree in the yard.

Theo Berez said Pepper initially landed high in a…

LINCOLNVILLE – Ladleah Dunn is a sailor and a damn good cook. More importantly,…

AUGUSTA — Central Maine Power Company is offering rebates to qualified customers who install new electric thermal storage heating units in their homes. The utility's ETS program was developed in…

WARREN — Dome Builders, of Warren, started constructing domes three years ago and on Sept. 29, at Boulder Hill Woodworks, assembly began on a 24-foot-wide, 12-foot-tall, 4-frequency dome.…

Review: Creating, crafting from wood in Rockport

“Setting the Table”, a collaborative exhibit between the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship and Maine Home + Design, is on exhibit Sept. 28 to Jan. 8. The show consists of six individual dining…

From the Wolf Test Kitchen

“And then on Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises from the patch and brings toys to all the boys and girls…”
 — Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin…

From the sea to table in six hours: stuffed quahogs

Ladleah Dunn is a sailor and a damn good cook. More importantly, she aims not to take the foodie industry in Maine so seriously or make it too precious. Her culinary adventures stem largely…

Good vibes at the Tool Box Bash
Vicki Doudera, Steve Thomas and Tia Anderson.

ROCKPORT — Saturday night was a time for celebrating the continued good works of Midcoast…

a duck egg custard pie...on the fly

LINCOLNVILLE – Ladleah Dunn is a sailor and a damn good cook. More importantly, she aims not to take the foodie industry in Maine so seriously or make it…

Networking can be a funny thing. Sometimes people work hard to make connections that lead to successful partnerships and sometimes it just falls in their lap.  Brandon Kimble, a custom…

Midcoast calls to artists

ROCKPORT — Katie Wilson moved to Maine last winter from New Hampshire, from the hills to the ocean. Her sister, Corrine, lives in the area, and Katie arrived…

Unconventional Warren artist turns property into outdoor gallery

You don't forget a guy like Jay Sawyer when you first meet him. Big, raw-boned, in a faded Pink Floyd T-shirt with a go-to-hell beard. Intimidating at first, until he eases into conversation,…

WORKING IN VACATIONLAND
Bill Coughlin, a.k.a. "Mr. Tubs," with some of the dozens of cast iron tubs he keeps outside his Belmont workshop. (Photo by Ethan Andrews)

BELMONT – “Did you see the Irish tub?”

Bill Coughlin, looking disheveled but momentarily energized by his own question, sat on the closed lid of a toilet in the bathroom…

Rockport Select Board listening tours

ROCKPORT – Sixty years ago, Rockville, the small Rockport village that lies near Rockland by Chickawaukie Lake, was humming with industry. Lime kilns, a brick yard, schools, post office, cobbler,…

Morning photo

Camden resident and poet Dave Morrison captured the beauty of Sept. 11, as morning spread over Camden.

"The light today was so gorgeous I couldn't resist," he said.