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    Maine Restaurant Week's guide to how to choose where to dine with your valentine.

    Where to dine on Valentine’s Day in Portland

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    I love this flow chart, created by the good folks at Maine Restaurant Week, detailing suggestions for where to dine with your loved one...

    Portland to Boston: Bus or train?

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    Debating the best way to travel between Boston and Maine? The best options are the Concord Coachlines bus service or the Amtrak Downeaster train...

    Savoring art, antiques, and the art of breakfast at Portland’s Pomegranate Inn

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    Every morning, when I see the Pomegrante Inn's feed on Facebook, I start drooling. Innkeeper Dana Moos authored The Art of Breakfast, which I...
    Park your self-contained RV in Winter Harbor and explore the Schoodic Peninsula or hop the ferry to Bar Harbor. Courtesy photo.

    This just in: New RV campground opening in Winter Harbor

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    Acadia's Schoodic region is getting a new RV campground. Roger and Pearl Barto, who operate the Main Stay Cottages in Winter Harbor, have added...

    Nibbles & Bites: Sunfire Mexican Grill, in Rockland, Maine

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    I've always enjoyed Sunfire Mexican Grill, but with so many restaurants in the area, I don't get to go often. After a few years...

    This and that: News, notes, & events from around Maine

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    Choo choo! Model railroads and free admission Train fans take note: The Maine State Museum, in Augusta,  is celebrating model railroads Dec. 7 and 8....

    Musical notes from around Maine: Strand concert series and PSO’s new season

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    Here are some upcoming concerts and musical events in Maine worth your attention. Suzanne Vega and Arlo Guthrie Headline the Strand Fall Concert Series Check out...

    Specialty dinners & food programs in the Kennebunks

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    Two Maine inns in the Kennebunks are offering specialty dinners this fall. A Spirited Evening Harvest Dinner, Oct. 27 & 31 Ready to get spooked? Join...
    Tool geeks have a happy place at Liberty Tool, in Liberty, Maine. hilary Nangle photo

    Tool geeks, fixer-uppers, and artisans, meet your happy place: Liberty Tool

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    If it weren’t for Skip Brack, it’s likely the rural town of Liberty, Maine, a dip off Route 3 just inland from coastal Belfast,...
    The Camden Windjammer Festival over Labor Day Weekend celebrates Maine's maritime heritage. Sheila Grant photo.

    Schooner Mary Day celebrates 50 years at 2012 Camden Windjammer Festival

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    More than 20 schooners and other sailing vessels are expected to arrive in Camden this weekend (Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2012) for the Camden Windjammer...
    Don't miss the Kotzschamar Centennial Festival, Aug. 17-22, 2012; next chance to hear the organ will be in 2014.

    Tour Portland’s Kotzschmar organ

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    The Kotzaschmar Organ, the first municipal organ in the country to be designated a municipal organ and one of only two still in existence...
    Sunsets over Corea's boat-filled harbor can be magical. Hilary Nangle photo.

    3 reasons to visit sleepy Corea, a village near Acadia National Park’s Schoodic section

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    Whenever I visit Maine's Schoodic Peninsula, home to the only mainland section of Acadia National Park, I also detour out to Corea, a lobstering...
    For a taste of the real, ungussied-up Maine, loop down to Jonesport and spend a day or two immersed in a real lobstering village. hilary Nangle photo.

    The view from Jonesport, Maine: an authentic, ungentrified lobstering village on the down east...

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    Jonesport is a bona fide, way-way down east Maine lobstering village with a salty disposition and a stunning location. Not too many tourists other...
    Seek out Caiola's in Portland for creative and well prepared Mediterranean fare. Hilary Nangle photo.

    Nibbles and bites in Greater Portland, Maine: Local 188, Caiola’s, and the Inn by...

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    I'm traveling along the Maine Coast this summer researching a new edition of Moon Coastal Maine. I'll be posting updates every now and then...
    Docent-led small group tours of Winslow Homer's Maine studio are expected to sell out. Hilary Nangle photo.

    Don’t miss touring Winslow Homer’s studio on Prouts Neck, Maine

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      You can visit painter Winslow Homer's studio in Prouts Neck, Maine. In September 2012, the Portland Museum of Art opened the studio where the...
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