Offbeat

Maine’s newest hobbit-themed café, Elevenses, is rumored to be opening its magical doors in Brunswick this July.

Overall, Maine is a safe place to live. In recent years, we have seen many people from the nation's larger cities moving to Maine because of how safe our corner of New England is. However, we still have crime in Maine.  Sometimes, sadly, that crime is violent. ...

Even though the forests of New England are filled with all types of creatures, very few of them are threatening. Like we always heard as kids, "They're more afraid of you than you are of them". Of course, that does not mean you should get into a wrestling match with a bear or try to ride a moose...

On April 15th, we received word that the Maine State Police were in the process of investigating the death of a woman at a home in the town of Hartland. Police had been called to a home on Canaan Road in Hartland on the evening of April 12th...

As a kid who watched a lot of TV growing up, it felt like nearly every sitcom had at least one episode about a time capsule. Either the main characters were trying to select items to put in a time capsule, they were opening a time capsule, or they were searching for a missing time capsule...

The Maine State Police are investigating a Tuesday evening crash that started with one vehicle striking a deer on the Maine Turnpike. According to a press release from the Maine Department of Public Safety's Shannon Moos, at about 7 PM on Tuesday, the Maine State Police responded to a crash near mile marker 13 on the southbound side of the highway...

Even though hunger has always been a problem here in Maine, lately, we have seen more Mainers than ever dealing with food insecurity. Between the economic upheaval of the pandemic and the crazy inflation we have experienced, we have seen a big spike in the number of those seeking aid from our local food banks...

A man from Ellsworth is dead following a Wednesday morning crash in Hancock. According to a press release from the Maine Department of Public Safety's Shannon Moss, at about 6:44 on Wednesday morning, first responders were called to the scene of a multi-vehicle crash on Route 1 in the town of Hancock...

Summer in Maine is short. Very short. That's one of the reasons why so many Mainers try their best to soak in as much summer as possible. If you're a kid, that probably means spending time in the pool.  If your family didn't have enough money to have a backyard pool, you may have spent quite a bit of time splashing around in a plastic 'kiddie' pool.  Or...

If you have spent much time traveling to other parts of the country, you have probably realized that many weather events are regional. For example, you'll probably never hear anyone outside of New England mention having to weather a Nor'Easter...

Beginning this November, voting in the City of Augusta is going to look a lot different. According to an article on the KJ website, the City Council voted on Thursday to make the Augusta Civic Center the city's only polling place. In the past, the city had been seperated into 'wards' with four different polling spots...

Even though scams have been around for hundreds of years, technology has made them much more prevalent. It feels like every other day we are hearing a warning about a new phone, social media, text, or email scam. Text messages seem to be the new 'trendy' method of scamming people...

Hollywood heartthrob Joe Manganiello made waves on Peak’s Island after coming back to his childhood summer spot in Maine, calling it a long-overdue visit.

If you are under the age of 40, there is a good chance that you have been taking ‘selfies’ since you were a teen. Apparently, though, most of us have been taking selfies wrong. I recently watched a Facebook Reel that showed the differences between the 'Millenial' way of taking a selfie and the 'Gen Z' way of taking a selfie. Conside...

As parents in the 2020s, we have challenges that our parents never would have imagined. Yes, technology has made our lives much easier and made it so much easier to stay in contact with each other, however, that technology has brought with it a host of new threats to the safety and security of our children...

Thunderstorms, sometimes severe, are just something you need to deal with during Maine summers. Last night, for example, there was a lot of lightning and thunder over the Augusta area, but (based on the fact that my vehicle still had bird poo on the windshield) it does not appear that any rain fell as a result of the storm...