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  • Published
    August 20, 2023

    Maine Army National Guard soldiers reunite 20 years after Iraq deployment

    The former members of the 133rd Engineer Battalion were part of the largest call-up of any Maine military unit since World War II.

  • Published
    June 12, 2023

    In photos: Spring is in the air

    For gardeners, it’s tilling the ground anew. For beachgoers, it’s the first bracing dip of the year. For anglers, it’s the first bite from a striper along Maine’s warming coast. And for the Press Herald’s photographers, it’s a little of everything as they capture spring across southern Maine.

  • Published
    August 16, 2022

    Special Surfers hit the waves in Kennebunk

    Special Surfers, which introduces surfing to people with physical, developmental and emotional challenges, holds its third and final surfing event of the summer in Kennebunk on Tuesday evening.

  • Published
    June 7, 2022

    Tagged white sharks can’t hide from 1st buoy of its kind in Maine waters

    The buoy, which transmits real-time notifications when a tagged white shark is nearby, was put into Saco Bay on Tuesday by University of New England faculty and students.

  • Published
    June 4, 2022

    In photos: Alewives return to Mill Brook in Westbrook

    Alewives have returned to Mill Brook in Westbrook this spring, swimming upstream to get to Highland Lake to spawn. It’s the largest fish migration from Casco Bay and part of Maine’s success story in opening up rivers to allow alewives to return to their traditional spawning grounds. Press Herald photographer Gregory Rec was there to capture the beauty and action.

  • Published
    April 24, 2022

    ‘Like giant Legos going together’: Watch a time lapse of the I-295 bridge replacement

    Watch the first 400-ton bridge section being rolled into place Saturday afternoon. Drone footage by staff photographer Gregory Rec.

  • Published
    March 7, 2022

    In photos: A memorable February

    It snowed, and thawed, and sleeted and thawed, and snowed some more. On the 23rd, we claimed spring for a day, breaking records when the temperature soared to the mid-60s. It was a month of bad ice, high energy costs, good skiing and great high school sports. Here are some of the best photos from the month by Press Herald photographers.

  • Published
    February 7, 2022

    In photos: Scenes of a frozen Maine

    Portraits of winter in Maine by the Press Herald’s photographers

  • Published
    December 25, 2021

    2021 Photos of the Year: Photographers’ Choice

    2021 was a roller coaster ride. It started with mobs attacking the Capitol to try to overturn the presidential election and is ending with a new surge of the coronavirus. There was enough bad news – fires, floods, disasters of every natural and manmade kind – to make you want to bury your head under the covers and stay there. But there was also the miracle of vaccines – by the end of June, hardly any vaccinated people were dying of COVID-19. We gained a new appreciation of the simple but deep pleasures of meeting with family and friends, going to a country fair or a high school baseball game, looking for beauty in the flight of an owl or a solar eclipse at dawn. For our 2021 Photos of the Year collection, Portland Press Herald photographers voted on one another’s photos, then selected their own favorites from the top vote-getters. We hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we enjoyed taking them.

  • Published
    November 28, 2021

    Portland set aglow with celebration of first night of Hanukkah

    Cars with menorahs on top parade through the streets of Portland to reach City Hall, where Rabbi Moshe Wilansky of Chabad Maine lit a 12-foot tall menorah on the first night of Hanukkah.