In a word: Exploring the ‘Y’ of our alphabet

We answer the burning question bothering us — OK, me — since we were young schoolchildren: 'Is Y a consonant or a vowel?'

Punk Show: Energy. Friendship. Music. Inside Lewiston’s ’90s punk rock scene

Taylor Martin, a former Lewiston punk rocker and current teacher and fiddler, takes us back. 'We wanted to start our own band and not even knowing it, our own scene.'

Mark LaFlamme: The winter games are upon us

Talk of the town: They extended the political season to hold a runoff AND it snowed last week. Anyone have a spare cave I can borrow?

Mystery Photo for Nov. 12, 2023

Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.

Birds of Maine

What’s that bird?!?

Face Time: Mary Wainwright — helping kids with special needs through equine therapy

Wainwright and her husband, Jody Brown, also run a wedding and events center at their Boondocks Farm in Canton.

Mystery Photo for Nov. 5, 2023

Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.

Grab your binoculars! Maine’s got 290 bird species on the wing worth watching

The experts' advice: Start in your backyard with a feeder. Soon you could have purple gallinules and Bohemian waxwings in your sights.

‘This feels like home’: Lewiston basilica’s special Mass for immigrants is creating connections

A wedding six years ago led to a choir and a special Mass at the basilica now conducted by a visiting Boston priest.