Game of the Week: Biddeford Football v. Gorham at Waterhouse Field on September 11, 2026 in Biddeford, Maine.

Meet Krista Gagne, who grew Maine Homestead in Lyman from one batch of pickles into a Maine-made food brand sold in 850 stores nationwide.

John Lee Dumas on his family's dock on Kennebunk Pond in Lyman, Maine. Dumas' podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, started in 2012 and has been downloaded millions of times. Photo by Cy Cyr The Fire Still Burns at Home John Lee Dumas has recorded thousands of daily business podcast interviews, built a global audience and created a life that carried him far beyond York County. But on a warm August morning in Lyman, Maine, he was barefoot on the dock at his parents’ home on Kennebu

Pyper LeBlanc, 6, of Ogunquit, leaps off a rock near a six foot tall metal rooster in Wells, Maine on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. Photo by Cy Cyr For the past month, six-year-old Pyper LeBlanc and her beloved roosters have appeared in news reports across Maine and around the country. On Tuesday,, I saw what happens after the headlines. Dave, Sara and Pyper in Wells, Maine. I followed Pyper and her parents, Sara and Dave LeBlanc, from their family’s Omelette Factory in Ogunquit t

Fifty Years, Still Moving The first things Avery mentions aren’t big, not the anniversary or the history or even the fact that her family has been doing this for fifty years, but the smaller details that make up her day, like stickers, helping in bulk, and putting things back where they belong. She talks about cleaning the stairs with peach spray and making sure they smelled right, the kind of detail you only notice if you’ve spent time paying attention. Then, without much bu

Grady O'Connor, 16, runs Courtside Cards and Collectibles which is located inside of the SOFIVE Soccer Center at 400 North Street in Saco, Maine. The first thing you notice about Grady O’Connor is his height. At 16, he’s already 6'4", which makes him easy to spot across the indoor fields at the SOFIVE Soccer Center in Saco. Kids run drills. Parents line the sidelines. Games echo off the walls. And tucked just off the action, behind a glass display case filled with cards, is G

Peter McPheeters, of Biddeford Pool, rows his boat around Wood Island Lighthouse during sunrise on February 22, 2025. Photo by Cy Cyr/ BrickTides.com The flagpole snapped in the dark. The wind came hard through Biddeford Pool on Monday — snow moving sideways, drifts building against the harbor-facing buildings, the kind of February storm that reminds you who owns the coastline. By Tuesday morning the blizzard had moved offshore. The sky was hard blue. The Pool lay exposed at

April Laverriere, of Kennebunkport, started competing on her bike after a foot injury sidelined her running career. It was five degrees when we met, the kind of clear January morning in Biddeford where the light is sharp and the cold doesn’t pretend otherwise. We were inside a small studio near The Lincoln, catching up after a long gap, talking easily in that way that only happens when you’ve known someone since before life got complicated. April Laverriere and I graduated

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

Silas Wolff's face glows from the fire of a coal forge while creating a chef knife. Photo by Cy Cyr. Kennebunkport, Maine, hums with early - Fall quiet. The scent of salt and pine mixes with the faint metallic tang of steel in the air. Out back of an old family barn, beside stacks of wood and a coal forge glowing orange, a German Shepherd named Bjorn thumps his tail and drops a stick at the feet of his owner, Silas Wolff. Inside the workshop, sparks burst like fireflies as S

Katie and Cody Sherer, owners of Mainely Blooms at 1903 Portland Road in Arundel, Maine. Photo by Cy Cyr. Three Generations on the Same Patch of Maine Soil Here on a long, humming stretch of Route 1 in Arundel, a family’s land has been put to work for three generations—and three entirely different businesses. That continuity is the quiet power behind Mainely Blooms , the perennial nursery and flower farm owned by Cody and Katie Sherer at 1903 Portland Road in Arundel, Maine

Brian Fairfield, Maine Dry-Stone Waller

Video of striped bass off the coast of Biddeford, Maine