Michael Macomber and Katie Pinard outside Elements on a cold March morning in Biddeford. Inside, the shop has been a gathering place on Main Street for 13 years. On the second day of March, winter in Biddeford feels less certain. The cold is still sharp enough to stiffen your fingers, but the light has changed. It comes in clearer now, a brighter blue stretched over Main Street. Snowbanks along the curb have thinned and grayed at the edges. Meltwater runs in narrow ribbons to

Nick and Emily Conley, of Waterboro, are on pace to sells tens of thousands of bags of their Ruff Pine Dog Treats in 2026. The story of  Ruff Pine Dog Treats  starts with a purchase on Facebook Marketplace. In 2019, Nick and Emily Conley are twenty-one, recently out of college, and five years into a relationship that started when they were sixteen. Nick is from Biddeford. Emily is from Saco. They buy a 1993 Ford Falcon camper van and decide to travel the country. They don’t

Jacqui DeFranca and Jon Denton, owners of Sweetcream Dairy in Biddeford, Maine. The science, the stubbornness, and the shared joy that brought Jon Denton back home to Biddeford — and let his wife Jacqui build a life around it The Sweetcream Dairy storefront. Sweetcream Dairy sits on Main Street in Biddeford like it belongs there, like it always knew it would end up exactly where it is. Not because the path was obvious. Not because it was easy. But because this is what happens

Jimmy Haight, left and George Matelich, right, met over coffee and quickly built a community of like-minded Mainers in technology roles. And, starting it all, was an email that ended up in a spam folder. A Soft Morning in Kennebunkport The meteorologists had promised drama. Strong winds were coming, they said. Heavy rain too. But that morning in Kennebunkport, nothing had arrived yet. The air was still. The harbor barely moved. It was one of those Maine mornings where the fo