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You'll Notice This Change At Rock Row in Westbrook, Maine

You'll Notice This Change At Rock Row in Westbrook, Maine

What seemed like a pipe dream several years ago has really taken shape in the present. That would be Rock Row, a development in Westbrook, Maine, that now features thriving businesses and a medical campus with a new phase of development on the...

Learn more about Cooper Flagg's basketball family and Maine roots

Learn more about Cooper Flagg's basketball family and Maine roots

After taking college basketball by storm, Cooper Flagg is ready to take on the NBA. Flagg turned in a historically dominant three years of prep basketball before winning a host of national player of the year honors during his lone season at Duke....

Nothing Spooky About a Maine Lawn Full of Turkey Buzzards, Right?

Nothing Spooky About a Maine Lawn Full of Turkey Buzzards, Right?

A group of turkey buzzards quietly gathering on someone's lawn is downright creepy. Turkey Vultures Circling is a Common Sight in Maine Turkey vultures, often called turkey buzzards, are carrion birds that feed on dead things. Most birds don't...

What do Americans’ lighting choices say about them?

What do Americans’ lighting choices say about them?

Lightopia used hard sales data, search trends, social media deep-dives, and designer brain-picking to create a comprehensive map of American lighting preferences. From the moody industrial pendants of Brooklyn lofts to the sun-drenched coastal...

2025 Ticket TV Awards [PHOTOS]

2025 Ticket TV Awards [PHOTOS]

The 2025 Ticket TV Awards Show was held at Hero's Sport Grill and Entertainment Center on Monday, June 23rd and live-streamed on Ticket TV. Presenting were Jim Churchill and Brian Sullivan (L-R) Brian Sullivan and Jim Churchill Photo Chris Popper...

How to stay safe and comfortable during Maine heat waves

How to stay safe and comfortable during Maine heat waves

This story was originally published in July 2022. Though folks who live in southern states laugh at our discomfort when they regularly endure extreme heat, here in Maine, it’s not as common an occurrence (though it’s getting more common). Some...

New Maine Law Passed Aimed at Protecting Mobile Home Residents

New Maine Law Passed Aimed at Protecting Mobile Home Residents

As someone who spent the first 13 years of life growing up in a mobile home park, I totally understand the frustrations and headaches that many residents of these parks face. However, it's not always bad either. I grew up in the tiny Maine town of...

Federal visa pause threatens Maine schools that depend on international students

Federal visa pause threatens Maine schools that depend on international students

In a typical spring, high school students from around the world — China, Vietnam, South Korea, Spain, Germany, Italy and many other countries — would be scheduling interview appointments for the visas they need to study in Maine. This year, they...

Stephen King Called Horror Movie With 13% Rotten Tomatoes Score the Worst Slasher He Ever Saw

Stephen King Called Horror Movie With 13% Rotten Tomatoes Score the Worst Slasher He Ever Saw

Even though Stephen King is known throughout the world as a huge horror writer, the legendary author has a thin line he doesn't cross when it comes to sitting down to watch slasher movies, and one film in particular has the King reeling in...

Stephen King's Creepy (And Underrated) Werewolf Movie Is Streaming For Free

Stephen King's Creepy (And Underrated) Werewolf Movie Is Streaming For Free

The 1980s may have been the decade of the slasher flick, but fans of vampires and werewolves had plenty to enjoy, too — the classic creatures were having their biggest moment since the '30s and '40s heyday of Universal monster movies. Although...

After 48 Years, Laura Benedict to Step Away From The Red Barn

After 48 Years, Laura Benedict to Step Away From The Red Barn

To know Central Maine is to know the world-famous Red Barn restaurant. Tucked away on Augusta's Riverside Drive and surrounded by beautiful blooming flowers, the Red Barn is a staple for both locals and 'folks from away'. More than just a great...

Don’t touch: large jellyfish washes ashore in Maine

Don’t touch: large jellyfish washes ashore in Maine

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) - A large lion’s mane jellyfish washed ashore in South Portland over the weekend. City officials say the nearly 5-foot-wide jellyfish was spotted at Willard Beach, which is an exceptionally large specimen for this...

Maine politicians denounce shootings in Minnesota

Maine politicians denounce shootings in Minnesota

Maine politicians expressed sadness and concern Saturday following what officials have described as the politically motivated shootings in Minnesota that killed two people and injured two others. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said former state House...

It Looks Like the Death Star, but This Was Built Right Here in Maine

It Looks Like the Death Star, but This Was Built Right Here in Maine

This photo looks ominously like the famous Death Star from Star Wars, but it was built in Maine in 1961, before Star Wars was even thought of. Andover Station NASA - Public Domain NASA - Public Domain In 1961, Andover Station in Andover, Maine,...

Food, Love & Art: Fresh Pasta, Fine Wine & Big Flavor at Luciano’s

Food, Love & Art: Fresh Pasta, Fine Wine & Big Flavor at Luciano’s

To craft Luciano’s Cucina Italiana’s lobster ravioli, prep cook Bruce Allen rolls out house-made pasta dough, placing a piece over a metal ravioli mold. A second plastic mold is used to create six sunken pockets that he tops with a filling of...

This Maine Intersection Needs a Traffic Light Badly

This Maine Intersection Needs a Traffic Light Badly

One of my favorite places in New England is Ogunquit, Maine. What's there not to love? It has restaurants, hip clothing stores, world class musical theater with the Ogunquit Playhouse and the Front Porch Piano Bar. (Be still my beating heart.)...

Watch the 2025 Ticket Awards Live Stream from Bangor, Maine

Watch the 2025 Ticket Awards Live Stream from Bangor, Maine

Celebrate the best in local sports at this year's Ticket Awards. The 2025 Ticket Awards will take place at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 23 at Hero's Sports Grill in Bangor. You can watch the ceremonies live below. Thanks to everyone for a great year in...

Emails reveal DOGE canceled Maine’s newborn Social Security program

Emails reveal DOGE canceled Maine’s newborn Social Security program

Orders to cancel a program that electronically registered Maine newborns for Social Security came from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, not from the federal retirement and disability program’s commissioner, who had previously taken...

Friends, family remain close to Maine's Cooper Flagg as he prepares for NBA Draft

Friends, family remain close to Maine's Cooper Flagg as he prepares for NBA Draft

PORTLAND (WGME) – This week, all eyes are on Mainer Cooper Flagg, poised to be the top pick in this year's NBA draft, now just two days away. "I’ve known him since third grade," friend Kaden Bedard said. Kaden Bedard is one of Cooper Flagg's very...

SEC LINDA McMAHON, PAYTON McNABB: Common sense says women's sports are for women only

SEC LINDA McMAHON, PAYTON McNABB: Common sense says women's sports are for women only

Education Secretary Linda McMahon discusses protecting girls' sports in schools on 'The Story.' NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a political issue that unites Americans. But there’s at least...

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