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Full Hearts Farm Store offers Maine-made groceries and prepared foods.

The restaurant will reopen under new ownership as soon as licensing transfers are complete.

Kenny Peterson will devote himself full time to Side by Side Coffee.

If MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital closes its maternity ward, it would continue a long-term trend in Maine of closures as the state's birth rate drops.

Restaurants and bars are embracing the trend, matching the luxe ingredient with fried chicken, hash browns and more, in a way that reflects today's informal dining style.

They manage moorings, settle turf wars and now one is even running for the US Senate.

The pause gives Brunswick time to review local ordinances and develop regulations for large data centers, should any vie to come to town.

The burger joint, with locations in Biddeford, Westbrook and Scarborough, has agreed to pay about $83,000 in back wages and fines. A judge has not yet approved the settlement.

The Maine Public Health Association is to name the South Portland restaurant a Public Health Business Champion.

Scullery Made Deli serves breakfast and lunch sandwiches by day, then morphs into a bar with small plates in the evenings.

The citizen-proposed initiative would put a 180-day pause on a proposed Aries Clean Technologies treatment plant that some residents have opposed.