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Living Blogs

Maine Digital Press

At Maine Digital Press we produce programs about niche Maine topics. We deliver these programs as Podcasts. Check them out: Freezingprocess, The Split Screen, and Melting Point.

Changing Lives. Shaping Community.

The Bangor YMCA is not just a fitness club, it is a community that values youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. Changing Lives…..That’s Our Y!

Jami Badershall works for the Maine Dairy & Nutrition Council and Maine Dairy Promotion Board, and also owns her own small farm. On "The Dairy Dish", she ventures to Maine farms, highlights events around the state, and gives you recipe ideas using local dairy products.

The (207) Foodie

Sarah Gelber is a senior at the University of Southern Maine and lover of food who enjoys reviewing restaurants in the Portland area, giving her a reason to explore the amazing foodie scene!

Rooted in ME

Natalie is exploring Maine one weekend, one meal and one mishap at a time. She’ll search for the “Maine experience” through food, fashion and the great outdoors.

Maine Woods and Waters

Tod is a writer and photographer living in Blue Hill. He considers the Maine woods a treasure and wants to share them with you through his words and photographs.

Home Team

He’s covered sports full-time and as a freelancer for daily and weekly newspapers from Miami to Bar Harbor, but these days Tom Minervino is an at-home dad raising two young boys in Portland. Join him as he gives you a play-by-play of his days.

My Maine View

On My Maine View, Johnny writes about local, state, and national affairs, family life, and anything else worth commenting on.

Aesthetic Encounters

Katy Kelleher is a writer and editor who lives in Portland. She's an art enthusiast and is excited to share everything art related in Maine. During the day, she serves as the managing editor of Dispatch Magazine, where she writes about everything from craft brews to handmade guitars.

Tails From a House Cat

The Bangor Humane Society's, house cat Austin, gives a behind the scenes look at what really goes on in our local animal shelter.

Johnny Says This

Johnny is a lover of all things, television, books, movies and music. As he makes his way through what's current along with trips into the past, he writes about his takes on them.

Waste Not Want Not

Laurel lives in downeast Maine with her husband and their two toddlers keep them on their toes, and share many classic moments. Join her as she journeys with her family to use everything they have to get to where they are going.

Call Me Old-Fashioned

Putting Farm and Garden Back on the Table

Maine Morsels: People, Places, Food

Features about Maine places, people and relatable recipes . The field is often even narrower, a person or place here in my backyard, Otter Creek, Maine, capitol of the world and center of the universe.

Oh, Honestly!

A Journey into Honest Living

If My Coaster Could Talk

Chad Lothian, Lives in Old Town Maine. He is a craft beer enthusiast and home brewer. Chad has travelled to Brewpubs, Breweries and Brewfests all over New England.

Get A Life

Karen and Jim, in their bi-monthly joint blog, offer two different perspectives on the relationships in our lives and the blessings and challenges that go along with living and loving more fully.

Bourbon. Portland. Beer. Politics.

Alex Steed has written about and engaged in politics since he was an insufferable teenage, run for the Statehouse and produced a successful web series. Read his thoughts on Portland and politics.

Munjoy Hill News

Carol's goal is to recognize people on the Hill leading unique lives, start-up businesses in the Portland area, and other subjects of interest to people on the Hill.

The Places We Go

One woman's quest for nature around the world.

Taste Buds

Be sure to check in weekly for a bit of inspiration for using seasonal foods and for a chance to get out of your ho-hum-a-day daily meal rut.

Stop Thinking and Cook

Linda will help you with supper so you can stop thinking about what you are going to make and start cooking.

Mainely Veggies

Eating Mainly Veggies in the great state of Maine

What's Cookin' in the County

Dishing up events, experiences, and all things edible – from The Crown of Maine

Kids Gone Raw

Kids Gone Raw is a place for kids & their people to learn about healthy living. Live. Life. Uncooked.

I'm Gonna Kill Him!

You agreed on 'I DO'. And not a single thing since.

Bennett There Done That

Troy R. Bennett is a Buxton native and longtime Portland resident whose photojournalism has appeared in media outlets all over the world.

Maine at War

Brian Swartz's ancestry and chronological luck have influenced his life-long Civil War passion.

Campbell's Corner

The world through the eyes of Michael Campbell, a college student studying journalism at NESCOM

To Wit

Emmet Meara is criminally idle and just cranks out a weekly column for the NEWS and feeds the wood stove to keep warm.

By Hand

Ardeana Hamlin has been knitting, crocheting, embroidering and making stuff by hand most of her life.

Gardening in Tune with Nature

Learn what it takes to grow healthy plants in healthy soil

Manchild

Pat has it all, family, big old house, dogs, a newborn son and a quarter-life crisis. He is trying his best be Ward Cleaver, Bob Villa, Cesar Milan and Eddie Vedder

Achorn Farm

Kim is a thirty something mom of two home schooled kids. Part-time nurse, full time farm girl.

Backstage at PTC

Penobscot Theatre Company – Where the drama's at!

Madeleine's Madeleines

Madeleine is a 15 year old unoffical cook and baker. She shares her adventure of cooking and baking mostly gluten-free recipes for her family.

Got Bad Air

Terry Pierson writes about creating healthy homes and businesses based upon her knowledge and experience of the indoor environment, building healthy homes and the toxic hazards we face. Let's clear the air.

6:30 and a Glass of Wine

Heather Bogolyubova has an un-pronouncable last name. The job: Stay-at- home mother and wife. Its hard. She's going to tell you all about it.

Culture Shock

BDN arts and lifestyle writer keeps you up to date on arts, entertainment, food, pop culture and other cool stuff from the 207

Mainer Abroad

Germany from a Mainer's eyes. Danielle Clark writes about differences and similarities between her home state and Germany.

I can't wipe off this stupid grin

Between three round faces, three square meals and in between all the chaos, I still find time to create. Renée writes about a life worth living well, even when it’s not always easy.