Last year, the town contracted with water transportation consultant Charles Norris, of Norris & Norris Associates in Cambridge, Mass., to assist the task force in identifying various combinations of public and private management and operation plans.

Chef Altiero suggests cranking your oven up to a high temperature, sometimes 500 degrees F (and “get yourself some good potholders.”)

Like many new Mainers, Subha Raghavan’s first impressions were about the state’s population. “I was really surprised because it was not very diverse. Before coming here I had been to New Jersey, New York, all university towns. Even though they are small places there were lots of different cultures and languages," she said.

Together, they want to establish at least 1,000 acres of oyster reefs by 2030…

“A small city like Rockland is very popular. A lot of different people see our work," said Martha Morris-Gibson.

The decision to make violins with nontraditional woods has meant Peter Gallant has been largely shut out of the classical violin world.

Portland-based Chimani has created a sort of a digital guidebook of an app for Acadia and several other national parks that comes with professional voiceovers and an augmented reality function. Smartphone users can look at the view on the phone’s screen and receive information on each landform or body of water.

The historic Boothbay Harbor Shipyard is beginning a new phase to restore the historic Essex, Mass.-built Ernestina-Morrissey—a former Grand Banks fishing schooner, Arctic explorer, U.S. Naval ship and Cape Verdean trans-Atlantic packet, and today the official tall ship of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Formed in the midst of the price crisis during the summer of 2012, the Maine Lobstering Union will mark its third anniversary in September. The prices fishermen get have rebounded, but the union remains strong and growing.