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Over apple picking? Head to Maine’s adult-friendly fall destinations | Column (opens the original)
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After realizing my desire to visit an apple orchard in autumn was more about trying to immerse myself in everyone’s favorite season than doing the actual picking, I decided I was done being burdened by bags of fruit in exchange for a few minutes of fall-maxxing. What I wish I’d known sooner is that Maine is home to other destinations in pastoral settings where you can don your coziest flannel, step on crunchy leaves and soak in the season sans manual labor — but with food and beverages instead.
Aggressive behavior by ‘addicts’ is testing Portland’s values | Column (opens the original)
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How do we decide whether to forgive harmful actions out of sympathy for the circumstances that led to them? In Portland, the growing incidence of aggressive and threatening behavior by people living on the streets is testing our ability to lead with compassion. Speaking at a recent Portland Regional Chamber event, the former sheriff announced that he was working to establish a secure treatment center as an alternative sentencing option for crimes committed by people with mental health and substa
Ranking this summer’s Vacationland visitors | Column (opens the original)
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The official tourist season numbers won’t come out for several weeks, but through other sources (mostly social media), we have some idea of who visited Maine this summer. Two of our most well-known part-time residents, Martha Stewart and George W. Bush, both appeared to celebrate milestone birthdays here. While the lifestyle maven shared a photo of herself enjoying a new hot tub at her Skylands estate in Seal Harbor the day after turning 85 last month, the former president attended services at S
The little city of Eastport must have a grocery store | Column (opens the original)
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Sometimes when you’re vacationing in Maine, you need to buy bread. Over the past several years, I steadily checked off various boxes on my Maine travel bucket list — Rangeley, The Forks, Aroostook County, Vinalhaven — until way Down East, beyond Bar Harbor, was the only major destination left. This summer, it was time to visit Eastport. I mapped out a five-day tour of coastal Washington County in July that included camping at the newly upgraded Cobscook Bay State Park, hiking along the incompara
Portland should take a cue from its friendly island counterparts | Column (opens the original)
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Soon after arriving on an island off the coast of Maine this summer, the Los Angeles-based broadcast journalist Jacob Soboroff noticed something strange. Everywhere he went, people were waving at him. Soboroff wondered if they were viewers of his eponymous MS NOW show or were perhaps confusing him with someone else, he explained in an Instagram post last week. That is, until he realized everyone else was being waved at, too. He learned that the “island wave” — four fingers raised from a steering
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