Randy Forcier, left and Chris Bedard, right, at their office above Social House Kitchen in Saco, Maine. The CMG Home Loans office on Beach Street is quiet in the way a busy place gets when it’s between waves. A couple chairs are pushed in like someone tried to be tidy before the next appointment. A conference room sits ready—four walls, a table, a few pens that don’t belong to anyone in particular. Downstairs, there’s coffee and movement at Social House Kitchen, the kind of p

Kim Cochrane-Coleman is the owner of Biddeford Painting in Southern Maine. Photographed on November 3, 2025 in Biddeford, Maine. Jasper fixed appliances, Scott ran the lanes that kept Biddeford rolling, and Kim paints the places people live their lives. In this city of brick mills and salt air, the Cochrane name has long meant something simple but powerful: care for what’s yours, and care even more for what you share. Three generations have done that in three different ways—

Melissa Colley at Saco Scoop in Saco, Maine. A Door That’s Always Open It’s a Monday afternoon on Main Street in Saco, Maine, and the Saco Scoop shop smells like hot fudge and waffle cones. Behind the counter,  Melissa Colley  greets every customer by name — or, if she doesn’t know it yet, simply as “my friend.” “Because that’s the way it always was,” she says, glancing at the handwritten menu above her shoulder. “And don’t change what’s not broken.” At 209 Main Street, next