By some estimates, Maine is 49th in the nation in internet speeds. To continue the highway analogy, it’s as if the I-95 part of the internet is built, but there are not enough local roads that connect to it.

In those seven coastal counties that Clinton carried, the rate ranged from 2.7 percent to 3.6 percent…

Ship calls to Portland’s International Marine Terminal have steadily increased, more and more Maine officials, economic developers and business people have made the trek to Reykjavik to meet the neighbors, and more Maine goods are outbound along Eimskip’s “Green Line” route to Europe.

In way over his head and not in an agreeable frame of mind, he stormed across the dining room, gathering his wits about him…

Most towns schedule their festivals in July and August. What about moving some to September, or even October?

John and Sara will move to Leeds, on the mainland near Augusta. “We want to build a house on 100 acres we’ve bought, and do more with livestock,” John said, a bit apologetically.

Over the past two decades, public access to the coast has been challenged in court across the state, at places like Cedar Beach, Goose Rocks and Eastport. Experts expect more of those challenges as waterfront property values soar, along with the public’s desire to access it for recreation and commercial activity.

Will the small community general store go the way of the village blacksmith? Time will tell, but an analysis of the forces at work on the Maine coast offers a clear view of the challenges and some examples of how success might be found.

By executive order, Obama created the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument which bans commercial fishing, mining and drilling within a 4,913-square-mile area.