Maine Small Towns Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/category/maine-small-towns/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:53:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png Maine Small Towns Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/category/maine-small-towns/ 32 32 Why Does It Take So Long To Foreclose On A House In Maine? https://meinmaine.com/2026/03/30/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-foreclose-on-a-house-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-does-it-take-so-long-to-foreclose-on-a-house-in-maine Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:34:22 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18625 You see it, the house in Maine with no one home, the grass hay field high, idling waiting for real estate foreclosure. Seasons come, go and you wonder why does it take so long to foreclose on a house in Maine? The news headlines squawk loudly our country is desperate for affordable housing. Building materials […]

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]]> Maine Organic Farmers Gardeners Association Farmer To Farmer Conference https://meinmaine.com/2026/02/10/maine-organic-farmers-gardeners-association-farmer-to-farmer-conference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-organic-farmers-gardeners-association-farmer-to-farmer-conference Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:50:46 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18562 The MOFGA Farmer to Farmer conference held over the past weekend in Portland Maine. MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farmers Gardeners Association offered 30 education sessions at the Portland Holiday Inn By The Bay. Here is the rundown of the 2026 Farmer to Farmer sessions offered. The Farmer to Farmer conference kicked off with a farm […]

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]]> Maine Loaded With Over 4600, Vinalhaven The Biggest Off Shore Island https://meinmaine.com/2026/01/27/maine-loaded-with-over-4600-vinalhaven-the-biggest-off-shore-island/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-loaded-with-over-4600-vinalhaven-the-biggest-off-shore-island Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:22:35 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18554 Vinalhaven Island in Penobscot Bay. Consider you have power half the time on a Maine island parked twelve to fifteen miles off the coast of Rockland in Knox County. Literally every six hours, one side of your island is energized. Then the next half dozen hours, where you live or work you are on own […]

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]]> Traveling To Augusta For Maine Agriculture Farm Trade Show https://meinmaine.com/2026/01/15/traveling-to-augusta-for-maine-agriculture-farm-trade-show/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=traveling-to-augusta-for-maine-agriculture-farm-trade-show Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:04:30 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18540 Climbing on Interstate 95 traveling to Augusta for Maine Agriculture Farm Trade show. Yesterday hitched a ride with my partner Meg who is a New Limerick Maine organic farmer up here in Aroostook County. We climbed in the van and headed down I-95 to attend the Augusta Maine 85th agriculture farm trade show. We met, […]

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]]> Happy New Year From Maine https://meinmaine.com/2026/01/05/happy-new-year-from-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-new-year-from-maine Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:14:53 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18529 Happy New Year from Maine. Ready to start 2026 with plans for a healthier, happy life? New year, new plan, new set of variables to work around for most folks. You are not alone and Maine is in the top ten places people want to vacation, to make the big move and relocate to this […]

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]]> Living On A Maine Lake Year Round https://meinmaine.com/2025/11/19/living-on-a-maine-lake-year-round/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-on-a-maine-lake-year-round Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:09:47 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18490 Dig in, learn more and sample another helping of Vacationland, living on a Maine lake year round. Yikes. (Pause, keyboard goes quiet, slurp of early morning black coffee sound). Does that come off a little too vague, lofty or just leave you thinking “people don’t talk that way”? I am sorry, starting again. This Me […]

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]]> Exploring My Area Of Maine On A Minibike Growing Up https://meinmaine.com/2025/10/28/exploring-my-area-of-maine-on-a-minibike-growing-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exploring-my-area-of-maine-on-a-minibike-growing-up Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:30:43 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18483 Growing up in Maine, did you have a minibike? My first minibike was a 3.5 horsepower Briggs and Stratton model. Just a simple, low-cost minibike that was dark green with knobby tires. It has a thick long cushion seat to make up for a serious lack of suspension. No gears, the minibike equipped with a […]

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]]> Blogging About Maine Small Town Peace And Quiet https://meinmaine.com/2025/10/10/blogging-about-maine-small-town-peace-and-quiet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blogging-about-maine-small-town-peace-and-quiet Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:55:12 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18470 Peace and quiet, Maine small town living offers plenty of both. At a state Maine REALTORS convention this past week in Portland, it was great to be in Maine’s largest city for lots of continuing education credits. To rub shoulders, to compare notes with other professionals from around the state is invaluable to my small […]

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]]> Maine, Live Here, Work Anywhere https://meinmaine.com/2025/09/17/maine-live-here-work-anywhere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-live-here-work-anywhere Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:12:08 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18425 More and more real estate buyers are thinking Maine, live here, work anywhere. The Maine real estate calls into our rural Aroostook County office tell the tale. It’s families moving in, houses filling up, schools gaining student enrollments, and small businesses welcoming new customers. Remote work is turning Maine around — not just in Portland […]

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]]> What’s It Like Living In A Small Maine Town? https://meinmaine.com/2025/09/07/whats-it-like-living-in-a-small-maine-town-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-it-like-living-in-a-small-maine-town-2 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:35:25 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18400 Maine is a handful of cities and over 450 small community rural towns. Sixteen counties and the one I live in is the largest east of the Mississippi in land mass. Aroostook County, sparsely populated, a little longer drive time to access but so worth the extra  effort. What’s it like living in a small […]

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