Jim Martin’s friends and family always look forward to holiday gatherings—it’s when they get to crack open another jar of his deliciously crunchy homemade pickles.

Wesley McNair’s poems can break your heart, and they can make sense out of life’s broken pieces—sometimes in the same stanza.

Each year on November 11, the country stops to honor the men and women who have served in the U.S. military. We took some time to get to know three local veterans to find out what Veterans Day means to them.

We searched all over the Bangor metro region for five female family practitioners. While their stories are different, their drive, dedication, and love of medicine are all the same. Follow the stories of these talented women and find out what it takes to be a family doctor in Maine.

Thanks to technological advances, surgery is becoming faster, safer, and less invasive. And patients are healing faster and experiencing much better results.

Marie Vienneau worked her way up from a registered nurse to the CEO of Millinocket Regional Hospital. How did she do it? Hard work, education, and lots of determination.