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‘Molly built a dream I didn’t even know I wanted’
Lucky Betty’s, a boutique bar, opens in Camden
Thu, 10/07/2021 - 12:15pm

CAMDEN— Betty Forever , the garage bar and art studio in Camden, which had to close during the pandemic, has recently had a streak of good luck. Now re-opened by Daiva Deupree, an actor and Betty Forever’s bartender, the boutique garage bar has been renamed Lucky Betty’s. It’s a quirky gem in the midst of a tourist town, a combination of high-brow and low-brow, as Deupree describes it. On Instagram, the tagline for the place is: “Cold PBR & fancy olives...Nice...
The Lincolnville restaurant is now open on the weekends as a shop
Chez Michel converts to Beach Inn Market, a shop for takeout food and antiques
Sat, 10/02/2021 - 9:15am

LINCOLNVILLE—Fans of Chez Michel Restaurant on Route One were pleasantly surprised to see a new post on the restaurant’s Facebook page after more than a year of inactivity. The restaurant, which did not reopen the summer of 2020—another casualty of the pandemic—announced on Facebook Friday, October 1, that it is now open and has transformed with a new twist: it’s now called the Beach Inn Market filled to the brim with antiques and collectibles as well as art, and wine from chef/owners Michel...
opinion: Dual-use farmland is an important tool for diversifying a farmer's income
Going green with Alan Robertson of BlueWave Solar
Fri, 09/17/2021 - 8:00am

ROCKPORT —A new blueberry solar farm is ready to come online in a field near Route 17, close to Maces Pond. The blueberry farm is owned by David Dickey. When Alan approached Dickey about using his blueberry farm as a solar farm, David insisted, “Only if I can still grow blueberries.” That is what BlueWave Solar does, combining photovoltaics and agriculture. It is managed by Navisun LLC. It sits on approximately 12 acres and makes enough power for about 800 homes. Ten thousand, six hundred and...
Camden author provides insight to philanthropy, charitable volunteering
Tue, 09/14/2021 - 7:45pm

CAMDEN — Have you ever wondered if the charity to which you are donating is actually putting your money to good work? Or, perhaps you have pondered how you can become better involved with a nonprofit and offer more to a cause close to your heart. Maybe, you are on the board of a nonprofit and contemplating how to move the charity to new heights. For A Good Cause: A Practical Guide to Giving Joyfully , a new book authored by Camden philanthropist Diane Lebson, strives to answer those...
Painted Monarch, new hair salon, opens in Rockport
Thu, 09/09/2021 - 8:30am

Painted Monarch is a relaxed salon with a cozy atmosphere and boho vibes. Quinn Bunting, a Mainer with entrepreneurial spirits, crafts experiences that allow you to express yourself as an individual, inspired by a new generation of hair that she's making her mark in. Quinn's passions lie in bringing out the beauty in those around her. This 22-year-old owner, color enthusiast and stylist always keeps her finger on the pulse of constantly changing trends, products and services. Specializing in...
Having the ability to take action carries the responsibility to take action
Going green with Alvin Chase: solar farm, electric cars, keeping community healthy and strong
Wed, 09/01/2021 - 11:00am

ROCKLAND — This is a feel-good story about a local business owner doing well by doing good. Alvin Chase is the owner of Eastern Tire and Auto Service in Rockland. He has worked there for 33 years. His grandfather ran it for the original owners back in the 1940s through the 1960s, then his father worked there and bought the business. Alvin left Cornell and came back to help his father run the business when his father got sick in 1988. Later, his younger brother Aaron joined the team. When I...
in business
Rowing with beauty, self-empowerment: DoryWoman offers Belfast on-the-water experience
Wed, 09/01/2021 - 10:15am

BELFAST — There’s a new rowing business navigating the waters of Belfast Bay, launched by Nicolle Littrell. She is offering rowing lessons and guided rowing tours in the Bay, and efforts are challenging the gender status quo of rowing. What makes DoryWoman Rowing most unique, Littrell said, is there is no other company providing guided tours and rowing lessons in a traditional wooden boat in Belfast Bay with a Maine Guide, and perhaps even in the entire state. An individual with the Maine...
Two Dudes Tacos debuted soft opening August 28
Late in the season, Camden gets a new to-go taqueria
Wed, 09/01/2021 - 8:30am

CAMDEN— A shuttered food stand, formerly Deirdre’s Roadside Takeout, opposite of the Camden Hills State Park, has been brought back to life by Andrew Lipman in the form of a to-go taqueria. Called Two Dudes Tacos, the funny thing is that it’s just one dude running the show. “There was another dude, but he dropped out, so my other dude is my puppy, Gus,” joked Lipman. His partner, Andrea McFeely, is actually helping him run the business instead. Lipman, who was born in Portland, Maine, spent a...
The Club Marina and Bar opens in Stockton Springs
Wed, 08/11/2021 - 10:45am

STOCKTON SPRINGS—The former private Stockton Harbor Yacht Club has been transformed into a public restaurant called The Club Marina and Bar and its quiet harborside vibe is a hidden gem. Owner Jillian Liversidge and her husband, Sandy Liversidge, purchased the shuttered building six years ago. First, they created the nonprofit Stockton Harbor Yacht Club, which Liversidge said brought many people together. Both she and her husband grew up on boats and envisioned a place for boaters and community...
Plus other Midcoast farms and businesses participating
Brodis Blueberries in Hope gears up for first Wild Blueberry Weekend
Thu, 08/05/2021 - 10:00am

HOPE—Maine’s first Wild Blueberry Weekend is rolling out this weekend August 7 and 8 just in time for wild blueberry processing season with more than 15 farms and 40 businesses planning to participate over the state. Amid hundreds of acres of rolling hills in Hope sits a new building that serves as a processing center, distillery space, and a tasting room for Brodis Blueberries, a business that has been in operation for more than 150 years. Ron Howard is the son-in-law of Gwen Brodis, who,...
...with a restaurant and distillery planned for Camden in spring, 2022
Blue Barren Distillery finds a temporary new home in Hope
Thu, 08/05/2021 - 10:00am

HOPE—Blue Barren Distillery, formerly based in Camden, has gotten a new lease on life in Hope, and is once again, is open to the public. Many businesses have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, but no one got the one-two-three punch as Blue Barren Distillery did back in the spring and summer of 2020 when COVID-19 not only shut down Blue Barren Distillery’s tasting room capacity but also forced the distillery’s co-owner Andrew Stewart to have to close his Scottish pub Drouthy Bear for good...
Hail to the Rad Kids
Teen wins MIFF Honorary Mention for her short film featuring Hope General Store
Mon, 08/02/2021 - 1:30pm

HOPE—The Hope General Store serves as a catalyst in 19-year-old Emma Jordan’s short film The Musicbox, which won an Honorary Mention award at the 43rd Maine Student Film an Video Festival this year, run by the Maine International Film Festival. “I had to come up with a Halloween-themed short film for a school project,” said Jordan, who studied filmmaking at the Mid-coast School of Technology through its Design/Technology program. With an eye on submitting a short film to the Strand...
Good Natured hosted its Grand Opening July 31
Nature-inspired arts and decor store opens in Liberty
Mon, 08/02/2021 - 9:30am

LIBERTY—The quiet little inland town of Liberty certainly has it going on these days. Good Natured, a home goods and artisan shop with nature-inspired crafts and decor held its Grand Opening on July 31. Owner Kate Meadows, a maker and artist herself, had been wanting to open her own shop for two years after moving to Liberty with her husband from Pennsylvania. The shop is a rustic combination of repurposed vintage items and nature-made art. Inside, one can find old bottles, baskets, and garden...
Featuring a brew-pub style tasting room with all Maine-sourced food and beverages
Maine Tasting Center aims to be a statewide hub for iconic Maine foods and beverages
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 12:00pm

WISCASSET—Lobster. Blueberries. Beer. Maine’s most well-known fare is synonymous with the state. But, what about sea salt? Seaweed? Kombucha and Jun? The native products that can be derived from Maine’s land and sea are so much more and Maine Tasting Center aims to educate the public about it, while providing a brew-pub style space to taste all of it. Sara Gross, general manager, and her parents Andy Gross, president, and Elizabeth Gross, chef, opened the Center the first of July, transforming...
New family-friendly food truck ‘Mac Attack’ sets up in Rockland
Wed, 07/07/2021 - 11:45am

ROCKLAND—A wild idea turned out to be the smartest thing that Richard Curtis, a lobsterman out of Friendship, ever had. He’d never run a food truck before. “One day, I found a truck for sale in Newcastle and I thought, ‘You know what? I’m gonna go buy that tomorrow,’” he said. His new food truck, Mac Attack, just opened this past week. The business run by his fiancée Siearra Cook and his sister, Elizabeth Main, has been only been open a week but is attracting long lines just by word of mouth...
Wine slushies are the rage on a hot summer day
Unity’s Stone Tree Farm & Cidery opens to the public
Fri, 07/02/2021 - 12:00pm

UNITY—The rolling vineyards and farmhouse that once was the site of Clem and Jeri Blakney’s Younity Winery have gotten new owners and a new business. Now called Stone Tree Farm & Cidery, the small-batch winery and cidery opened June 12. Owners and life partners Brian Erickson and Frank Haferland were in touch with the Blakneys years before Blakney was killed in a tragic crash . When the property came up for sale, Erickson and Haferland were ready to buy it and revive the winery under a new...
And two reopen
Two new businesses open in Camden this summer
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 11:00am

CAMDEN—Two new businesses have filled the vacant storefronts left from the pandemic in Camden and two stores have re-opened. All of these businesses opened after we published our annual Midcoast business round-up story, “Welcome back to the Camden area, Snow Birds 2021!” New in Camden Blue Jay Baby Boutique A baby and gift boutique took over the corner shop at 2 Main Street this past spring. Owner Carissa Parini is fourth-generation Main Street...
Oh no they didn’t. Oh yes they did
Friendly business rivalry underway in Belfast with sign war
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 10:45am

BELFAST—Restaurants and businesses in Belfast are going toe to toe and pun to pun with an emerging sign war. As we reported on a story in May , central Maine businesses got a chuckle from launching into a sign war, where the name of the game is to be cheeky, use puns, and lob a good-natured diss. We’re not sure why the best insults come from puns on the male anatomy, but that’s where we are. Front Street Pub started it with a PG-rated insult on their menu board. Delvino’s Grill &...
Vegan and gluten-free all-natural flavors
Belfast Shaved Ice & Provisions offers nostalgic touch to Belfast City Park
Thu, 06/17/2021 - 10:00am

BELFAST—Shaved ice, a treat once popular with surfers in California in the 1960s, has made a comeback in 2021 in the form of Belfast Shaved Ice & Provisions, a family-owned concession stand in the heart of Belfast City Park. Run by Ashley Messner and Rick Strout who live in Brooks, the family leases the food stand from the city and has help from the children, Lennen Ewald and Camille Ewald. There are 25 all-natural flavors of shaved ice. “We were vacationing four years ago and got a shaved...
...which is actually in Wiscasset, not Bath
Bath Ale Works is the latest brewery to open in the Midcoast
Wed, 06/16/2021 - 9:30am

WISCASSET—Ironically, Wiscasset’s first brewery is named after the nearby town 10 minutes away, but there’s a story for that. On Route 1, opposite from the Shaw’s Supermarket, Bath Ale Works, co-owned by Pepper and Jean Powers opened its brewery and taproom Memorial Day Weekend. Powers, who arguably has one of the coolest brewer’s names ever, said, “We had the idea to open up in Bath several years ago, but we never found the right building at the right time, and then when we did, we waited two...
How Julz Larrabee, a sewist makes a creative living in Belfast
The long lost art of mending and alteration
Fri, 05/28/2021 - 11:30am

BELFAST—The retro hobbies of knitting and sewing came roaring back during the pandemic for many people new to the craft, but Julz Larrabee, a sewist in Stockton Springs, has steadily stitching along all of the years, regardless of what’s going on outside her doors. Her small shop, Julz Makes LLC, recently moved into the former “Maker Space” of Belfast Fiberarts’s expanded retail showroom. Her sewing studio is fittingly the previous site of the Belfast Repair Café, which offers...
Toad Hall Editions sets up in Northport
Midcoast Maine gains a new small book publisher and two literary magazines
Fri, 05/21/2021 - 5:00pm

NORTHPORT—A new small press has launched in Maine called Toad Hall Editions and its purpose is to give a platform to writers who don’t get noticed in the more traditional publishing arenas. Founded by Amy Tingle, Liz Kalloch and Maya Stein, the trio all have skills in the publishing and design industries. The idea for the small press came out of years of collaboration on their own various projects. Their collective work on Stein’s latest book, The Poser: 38 Portraits Reimagined by Maya...
Woodworker creates ‘gnarly’ reliquaries that hold precious secrets
Mon, 05/17/2021 - 11:45am

ROCKLAND—Trees talk; scientists have been telling us that for years. But what you didn’t know is that they are particularly good at speaking to artists. Roger Barry, a woodworker and artist, whose work is currently showing at Art Space Gallery in Rockland, has a connection to trees that goes back to his great-grandfather, the publisher of The Lumberman’s Actuary , a book of tables figuring lumber costs. Both his grandfather and father worked in the lumber milling business...
The Mill Nutrition energy teas and shakes is the latest healthy spot to open in Camden
Mon, 05/03/2021 - 11:45am

CAMDEN—Health seems to be on the minds of many businesses moving into downtown Camden this spring. The Mill Nutrition, at 25 Mechanic Street, is an herbal tea /shake shop that offers sugar-free Herbalife products with vitamins, protein boosters, and other nutritional add-on enhancements in custom drinks. Owned by Marlene and Zac Cohn, the take-out shop opened in early April. While the menu might be a lot to digest at first, especially for people not familiar with all of the Herbalife products...
How a portrait photographer works her magic to get a smile
Mon, 04/26/2021 - 11:00am

Elizabeth Stanley is the last person who wants to be in front of the camera, which has noticeably given her insight when it comes to being a portrait photographer. “I’m kind of an introvert, so I completely understand why people are hesitant to have their picture taken,” she said. The Rockland-based artist-photographer got her start early on. Remember in the early 1990s when Kodak sponsored a group of 7th-grade CRMS students, giving them all a camera and instructing them to go around the...
Ollie & David’s, a vintage store with factory-farm appeal, opens in Rockland
Wed, 04/21/2021 - 10:45am

ROCKLAND — A spate of new businesses are opening up all around the Midcoast this spring, following a tumultuous year for shops and stores struggling during the pandemic. One of the newest is a curated vintage shop owned by David Robichaud called Ollie and David’s—with Ollie as a tribute to his dog, an English Springer Spaniel. It is located on the first floor of the Thorndike building at 385 Main Street, once the great Thorndike Hotel. This overlooked building is often thought to host only...
Rope Co. produces minimalist designs
Tenants Harbor lobstering entrepreneur ropes in home decor market with handcrafted doormats
Mon, 04/19/2021 - 12:00pm

TENANTS HARBOR—Logan and Hannah Rackliff, co-owners of The Rope Co., have fostered a unique home decor business around an unlikely source—float rope, used by lobstermen to attach to lobster traps to the buoy and from trap to trap. Logan, a fifth generation lobsterman, comes by the profession naturally, both as a working lobsterman and as the descendant of entrepreneurs who started rope companies in Maine. His grandfather started Crowe Rope which became the largest rope manufacturer in the...
Artist Kim Bernard used daily art exercise to connect Mainers and beyond virtually
Art prompts spur community to get creative during Artists & Makers Week
Mon, 04/12/2021 - 11:30am

ROCKLAND—As mud season is full underway, little pops of color in nature are turning up on roadsides and gardens. As part of Artists & Makers Week hosted by the Island Institute’s retail store Archipelago, little pops of color also appeared in artist Kim Bernard’s email inbox—the result of daily art prompts she put out to Maine’s communities and beyond last week. Each day had a different directive and she encouraged each participant to spend no more than 15 minutes on each prompt. One was:...
The big lie is that 100% of recycled plastic is being re-used
Belfast’s The Green Store tackles plastic waste with dispense-your-own soap
Wed, 04/07/2021 - 9:45am

BELFAST—Think you’re being a good consumer by dropping your plastic recycling off at a Transfer Station each week? Well, don’t wipe your hands and be on your merry way, yet. A Pew Charitable Trust study, “Breaking The Plastic Wave” revealed that in 2016, 11 million metric tons of plastic leaked into the ocean with 45 percent of those leakages coming from rural areas, such as our own communities in Maine. In the last 60 years, consumers have been sold a lie that the plastic they buy will be...
Hail To The Rad Kids
Teen welder makes functional art out of metal scraps
Thu, 03/18/2021 - 9:15am

ROCKLAND—Take a walk through the cavernous welding/fabrication shop at the newly built Midcoast School of Technology and you’ll be surrounded by industrial machines, tools, workbenches, and vices. For some students, it might be intimidating. But 17-year-old Mikayla Tolman feels right at home. The senior at Zenith Alternative School takes a welding class at Midcoast School of Technology every other day and is one of two female students in the welding/fabrication program. “When I first walked in...
To open for take-out this spring
wolfpeach restaurant owners switch to temporary BBQ pop-up
Tue, 03/09/2021 - 9:00am

CAMDEN—Restaurants operating in a pandemic have had to make enormous changes in order to stay afloat. Gabriela Acero and Derek Richard, a couple featured in our recent story “ wolfpeach, a new chophouse with a Maine twist, to open in Camden, ” have reviewed their original restaurant plans under these circumstances. Their restaurant, wolfpeach, has not yet opened. Instead, they have decided to kick off their grand opening this spring as a barbeque joint until the...
Gathering Thyme, farmhouse decor boutique opens in Rockport
Tue, 02/09/2021 - 12:00pm

Winona Elmore just opened her dream shop in Rockport, a farmhouse decor boutique called Gathering Thyme, opposite of Midcoast Recreation Center on Route 90. Her grand opening was Saturday, February 6. “I had a vision of a place where people could come to find beautiful things for their home,” said Elmore, whose business is a family venture with help renovating the shop from her husband, her daughter, and her son-in-law. Elmore’s shop is filled with dried flowers, wreaths, and bundles of herbs,...
Elev8 Energy & Nutrition opens next to Hybrid Fitness in Warren
New healthy beverage company aims to boost immunity and health
Mon, 02/08/2021 - 2:00pm

WARREN—With the deepest part of winter upon us and a heightened societal need to stay healthy during a pandemic, a new energy drink bar is set to open in Warren. Elev8 Energy and Nutrition, owned and operated by Hunter Grindle with assistance from his operations manager, Richard Eaton, plans on opening the first week of February. Grindle, who also owns Hybrid Fitness, a fitness center in the same building, came up with the idea of a new energy drink bar, after brainstorming with Eaton, one of...
Ryan Jackson leads a series of virtual adult improv classes through the Farnsworth Art Museum
How improv gives permission to play in an ultra-serious world
Mon, 02/08/2021 - 1:15pm

ROCKLAND—When creative improvisational master Ryan Jackson gets down to serious business, there are going to be a lot of laughs. The Rockland native is hosting a series of virtual improv workshops for adults through the Farnsworth Art Museum through April. The class, titled “Improv Reprise! Making it up as you go with Ryan Jackson”, is meant to loosen people up and get them to experience new sides of themselves. A graduate of the University of Maine with a bachelor’s degree in theater, Jackson...
In Your Own Words LLC sells vintage photograph stationery to empower HIV+ Mainers
Maine couple creates Valentine’s Day cards for ‘affectionate men and women’
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 9:15am

The typical mainstream Valentine’s Day cards you find in supermarkets and stores and on TV commercials generally present a heterosexual angle to the holiday, which doesn’t represent other populations in love. One Greene, Maine couple, Lewis Alessio, and his husband, Jim Shaffer, have been producing creative variations of vintage photograph stationery that tell another visual story. The couple created In Your Own Words LLC in 2013 to creatively augment vintage photographs into cards and...
Owners Gabriela Acero and Derek Richard turn the Drouthy Bear into new restaurant
wolfpeach, a new chophouse with a Maine twist, soon to open in Camden
Wed, 02/03/2021 - 6:45pm

CAMDEN—Many wondered what would become of the classic Scottish pub Drouthy Bear after owners Andrew and Shannon Stewart announced last May that the COVID-19 virus restrictions on their beloved pub had forced them to permanently close. The Midcoast community will be happy to know that the building has been purchased and is currently being renovated by Camden newcomers Gabriela Acero and Derek Richard to become a new restaurant. With a new aesthetic and flair, the restaurant will be called...
‘Sport is a place that demands a person be absolutely physically, mentally and emotionally involved’
Montville artist Leslie Woods captures ‘strength, beauty and attitude’ of sports
Sun, 01/24/2021 - 1:45pm

MONTVILLE — Leslie Woods, a Montville artist, has a unique approach to why she paints sport figures that encourages viewers of her work to place themselves within the portrait. “Sport is where people can be totally absorbed physically, mentally and emotionally, where people function at the essence of being human,” Woods states on her website . “I paint figures in sport because our bodies are meant to move and each sport challenges with different actions. My designs interpret...
in business
New Rockland business, Affinity Nutrition: ‘Nourish your body, achieve optimum health’
Fri, 01/22/2021 - 7:45pm

ROCKLAND — Affinity Nutrition , a new nutritional business, opened Friday, Jan. 22 in the Rockland Plaza, edged between Hannaford and Planet Fitness in the space formerly occupied by Green with Envy Hair Salon. The owners aim to provide nourishment to Rockland and the greater Midcoast community. The business is owned by Jessica Ripley, of Washington, and Lisa Ladd, of Owls Head, both longtime Midcoast residents with a myriad of business experience in both the for-profit and...
Corinna Whitehill started the service while working for Mid-Coast Connector
Corie’s Rides helps community with personal taxi service
Mon, 01/11/2021 - 10:45am

WARREN—It’s been just over a year that Corinna Whitehill started her personal cab company called Corie’s Rides. It’s a service that has been fundamental to the Midcoast community in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic when people are at risk of losing their homes and their cars. Whitehill got her start in the driving business as the owner and a driver for Mid-Coast Connector, a MaineCare non-emergency transportation broker. It’s a service she still operates, along with eight cars and drivers...
Projected opening date: Jan. 16
Butter Up Cakes, all-gluten-free bakery, cafe, brews and ciders opens in Damariscotta
Fri, 01/08/2021 - 9:45am

DAMARISCOTTA—Faced with the food limitations necessary for their own family, a baker and her husband have decided to open a completely gluten-free bakery and cafe at 77 Main Street in downtown in mid-January named Butter Up Cakes. Candice and Patrick Brady have three children. “Two of our children have celiac disease, are lactose intolerant and can’t have high fructose corn syrup, and my husband is the same way,” said Candice. “So, I make all of their food from scratch, anyway. We decided to...
‘I have always been a creative person, and I always feel the need to create’
Northport artist Jason Thurston crafts ‘Shell Ink’ ornaments
Mon, 01/04/2021 - 12:45pm

NORTHPORT — Jason Thurston is a Northport artist, using his drawing skills to draw Midcoast scenery on shells. The idea to create art on shells came a few years ago when Thurston’s wife, Hana, was in the process of making Christmas wreathes to generate some additional holiday income. “We had some clam shells sitting around, and she said, ‘Hey, draw something on those shells. They'd make nice ornaments.’ I think I drew a random lighthouse, the Mount Battie Tower and a lobster boat,” recalled...
Shop Local Spotlight
Northport artist refinishes old furniture with enchanting detail
Tue, 12/22/2020 - 11:15am

NORTHPORT—Back in April, The Atlantic magazine wrote a story about how making old-fashioned crafts during the pandemic could ease anxiety. Millions of crafters took that to heart, and with the COVID-19 virus still raging on nine months later, many burgeoning creators have taken to Instagram, YouTube, and other online resources to make something beautiful. One such artist, Shelby Connolly, from Northport, found her niche that way. After purchasing secondhand furniture such as dressers...
In business
Meet Northport’s up-and-coming fashion mogul: ‘The Golf Boy’
Mon, 12/21/2020 - 7:00pm

NORTHPORT — The next time your child or grandchild asks you for sports apparel, it might not be of their favorite sports team. Rather, the apparel might be coming from the online clothing store, TheGolfBoy.com , launched by 11-year-old Jason Thurston, Jr., of Northport. Thurston put his newfound entrepreneurial skills to work when browsing options for golf clothing and realized the options were not very fun, or diverse, for children and adults. An avid golfer with his own golf...
In business
Hana Thurston’s cakes are delicious art masterpieces
Mon, 12/21/2020 - 8:00am

NORTHPORT — Hana Thurston has been baking cakes for the last eight years, and formally launched her Hana Cakes business two or three years ago after always wanting to launch a cake business. The Northport resident, at long last, discovered a way to launch her business when a memorable creation of hers, a two-tiered realistic diaper cake with an edible fondant diaper that was “soiled” with melted chocolate acting as poop running down the side of the cake for her sister’s third baby shower, went...
Formerly the Rotary Pizza restaurant, 10 Leland Street, Rockland
Maine Kebab opens in Rockland with forward-thinking takeout model
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 11:00am

ROCKLAND—A fast-casual lunch and dinner spot opened this week called Maine Kebab, and owner Shane McGarvey and his executive chef, Ken Hynes, are already ahead of the curve in terms of issues that have plagued restaurants since the COVID-19 virus hit back in March. The menu is very simple: Mediterranean and Turkish flavors. Main dishes include Tumeric rice bowls, flatbread sandwiches, falafel and hummus box, and a salad box all serve as the main ingredient dishes, to which a diner has the...
Blueberry Moose a small retail shop at Watts Building, Thomaston
South Thomaston woman opens shop to help fellow crafters hard hit by pandemic
Mon, 12/14/2020 - 1:00pm

THOMASTON—Like so many enterprising crafter/artists before her, Jo Ann Hoppe, an artist and entrepreneur from South Thomaston, has made a career from her hobbies. Refusing to let a pandemic dictate her direction, she’s lifting up a dozen or so local crafters, who are selling their consigned items in her newly opened shop, Blueberry Moose at 166 Main Street in Thomaston. “I’ve always been artistic, but in 2007, an artist told me I should be showing my stuff at craft fairs,” she said. “So, I...
Louise Seekins spreads love through handsewn teddy bears
Fri, 12/11/2020 - 9:15am

SEARSPORT — Louise Seekins possesses enthusiasm for sewing — expected when one has been sewing for more than five decades — and uses her affinity for the craft to spread cheer and love to her customers, and through donations of profits towards organizations supporting those with Alzheimer’s. She has sewn an array of items such as quilts and memory T-shirt quilts, items for her children and costumes for the 15 children’s community theater plays she has directed, and has taught the art of sewing...
Maine’s Entrepreneurs and Artists
Shop Local Spotlight: ornaments, jewelry from discarded lobster, mussel, oyster shells
Thu, 12/10/2020 - 10:45am

SOUTH BRISTOL—Many Maine artists use the concept of lobster in their art, but Tenley Seiders, an artist from South Bristol, actually uses lobster claws, tails, and other parts of the shell in her elegant jewelry and ornaments. Born in California, she was first inspired to create jewelry from the abalone shells found on Pacific beaches. From there, she delved into working with pearls and semi-precious gemstones. After spending countless summers in Maine, an “a-ha” moment occurred when she found...
Vinalhaven’s An Hanna channels creativity, passion for dogs to produce martingale collars
Thu, 12/10/2020 - 9:15am

VINALHAVEN — When Vinalhaven’s An Hanna was searching for collars for the sight hounds she raises, she looked for the best, highest quality collar possible that looked good and would keep the dogs safe. Unable to find collars that dazzled her, she opted to create her own collars now sold through her online Etsy store, The Royal Hound , which boasts handmade martingale collars. “I've always had an attention to detail but wasn’t sure [the collars] would be appreciated by others...
Offering light breakfast, local lunch favorites and fresh lobster rolls
Bill’s Original Kitchen opens at Knox County Regional Airport
Wed, 12/09/2020 - 1:00pm

OWLS HEAD—Bill Clifford, a chef who once ran Bill’s Original Kitchen in Kittery, has revived his one-man operation and recently opened his new kitchen at Knox County Regional Airport. Originally from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Clifford has worked as a chef at multiple venues in Maine, including his last stint at Point Lookout in Lincolnville before it abruptly closed. The plan was in place since mid-October to take over the space, once occupied by the Salty Owl Cafe. He decided to take the best...

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Indie Rock’s Darlingside performs at The Waldo, May 1

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