Look out below, here come the sleds
WinterKids puts on the annual event dedicated to getting children active outdoors during the cold months.
See winter’s beauty from the back of a sleigh
This isn’t just the season of fighting frozen pipes and doing battling with a snow shovel. There’s also quiet beauty in the deep freeze.
Maine’s bitter cold has set the scene for some beautiful photography
The Peaks Island ferry heads out on Tuesday morning across Portland Harbor as sea smoke rises around it. Sea smoke forms when very cold air moves over warmer water.
All the weeks in Portland History
Well, it’s over. My year of looking into Portland’s history, week-by-week, has come to an end. It was a lot of work to pull it together ever week but it was so worth it. I learned a lot and had a ball doing it. Now my noggin is stuffed with obscure facts about this city. […]
My 2017: tick-infested birds, tattooed chests, free weed and unshoveled sidewalks
Taking a gander at what I’ve done in 2017, I can hardly believe I had time for it all
He was alone, on fire with a broken back. Hundreds of miles away from the closest city.
He doesn’t remember the crash, his flaming motorcycle or the people who found him lying in the road hours after his accident.
The ship that crashed into Portland Head Light on Christmas Eve
You’ve probably seen the painted rock in front of the lighthouse tower. Here’s the story that goes with it.
Snowy weather halts holiday train to North Pole
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum’s last Polar Express trains of the year rolled through a snowstorm on Friday night in Portland. Saturday’s scheduled trains were cancelled due to the stormy weather.
We solved the mystery of why Portland’s statue is missing his scarf. And we fixed it.
A secretive group has been giving Longfellow a scarf and present every year since 1999.
John Wilkes Booth was in Portland the night the Civil War broke out
Lincoln’s assassin was an actor who previously performed in Maine, where audiences loved him.
