Savor summer with a make-your-won Maine shandy

Head up to Rangeley for mountains, lakes and moose sightings

Gifts of apples for my teachers

Teachers are more valuable than 'a dime a dozen,' despite what the governor says, and each deserves an apple for the differences they make in our lives, writes J.P. Devine.

Better luck next time in quest for employee of the month

Believing he was to be honored with a plaque by the Morning Sentinel, J.P. Devine ups the ante for next year — and it's not just tiny Swedish meat balls.

Reality and the solar eclipse

Even in a partial eclipse, you take your waking slow, writes Dana Wilde.

White people, it is on us to end racism

We need to be active in calling out hate when we see it — especially when it's being projected by people we love, writes Emily Higginbotham.

Roots run deep in central Maine for descendants of Nigerian prince

Ahmad Adeyemi Aloya has vacationed in Belgrade most summers over the last 30 years and continues to discover new information about his grandfather, John J. McAuley, writes Amy Calder.

Get those eclipse glasses ready

Amid myriad leaks emanating from the Oval Office of 45 involving consumption of the sun by snakes or dragons, J.P. Devine reveals sure-fire ways to handle the celestial event.

Lizzie Borden and the dog days of summer

There's nothing like a cold case from 1892 to distract your brain from current events, writes Liz Soares.

Goodnight, my someone

A memoir of a Broadway star, a cabaret singer, and the New York haunts of actors and dancers in halcyon days gone by, writes J.P. Devine.