Give them an inch, they’ll take your yard

The best way to minimize backyard pests is to have the most naturally healthy lawn and garden you can.

Up from bluegrass roots

The Ossipee Valley Music Festival has expanded from its beginnings to become a four-day celebration of ‘open-minded acoustic music.’

Families complicate life for ‘Bachelorette’

It can be terrifying to meet the family of your boyfriend or girlfriend.

Using that measure, Ashley Hebert faced terror times four Monday night.

Hebert, 27, was seen on Monday’s episode of the ABC reality show “The Bachelorette” traveling around the country to meet the families of the four men still in the running.

The season began in May with 25 men vying for Hebert – a dental student from Madawaska – but she had narrowed the field to four by Monday night.

Maine at Work: From pools to weeds to water leaks

Managing a building is a lot of work, but it beats being ‘chained to a desk’ all day.

It’s about 85 degrees out, and humid, when Warren Meech tells me we’re going to the back of the Sunspray high-rise condo complex to the pool.

But instead of taking a dip, I get to skim bugs off the surface of the water with a net. And push a long-handled vacuum back and forth along the pool bottom.

Open House: Rebuilt to last

Clever design and new technology surmount the challenges of replacing a small seaside cottage lost to a storm.

Author Q & A: Close encounters of the RV kind

Former Gov. Angus King’s book blends stories from his family trip around the U.S. with insights about getting through transitions.

Blues you can use

What do you get when you cross some of the world’s great blues artists and a summer weekend in Maine? Why, the North Atlantic Blues Festival, of course.

For ‘Potter’ fans, a bittersweet ending

Because an entire generation has thrilled to Harry Potter’s exploits from grammar school days to college years, the last film is as highly anticipated as any in recent memory.

‘Bachelorette’ comes down to final 4

Can a girl from a small town in Maine find love in New York City?

Or in the wine country of California? Or in sprawling Atlanta?

That is the next crucial question for Ashley Hebert of Madawaska as she continues her search for romance on ABC’s dating reality show “The Bachelorette.”

Camp job calls for ease at shifting gears

Maine at Work: Multiskilled counselors referee games, teach knitting, chaperone field trips, quell quarrels and make paper planes.