Maine is the Country's Most Peaceful State According to United States Peace Index
Portland is a really peaceful city, that's true. But it turns out that of all the States in the U. 
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Urban RAID: This Summer Portland Will Host a Unique 5K Fitness Challenge
/ Through the years, Portland has bestowed many gifts upon the world. Longfellow.
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Growing Season: Food + Farms and the Fermentory that is Portland
/ A mild winter and warm spring means that the city's fruit trees are blossoming, and the farmers on the outskirts of the city have been hard at work preparing seedlings in their greenhouses. In two more weekends, the indoor farmers' market will close for the season.
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Glide Through the Mind of the City: Bike Portland, Maine
/ Bicycling is the best way I know of to explore a city. I've lived in Portland for over five years now, and I still manage to notice new things almost every time I ride down Congress Street.
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Q&A With Kara Wooldrik and Portland Trails: Connecting Portlanders With Urban Wilderness
/ Since its founding in 1991, Portland Trails has become one of the city's most visible and productive nonprofit organizations. With a small staff, a shoestring budget from membership dues and community fundraisers, and lots of volunteer effort, the nonprofit has built a 50-mile network of trails and open space connections throughout Portland and its surrounding communities, connecting neighborhoods with prized parks and wildlands.
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Maine Roller Derby Season is Warming Up at Happy Wheels Before Invading the Portland Expo
/ Lil Punisher. Princess Layher Out.
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Portland's Architects: The Bounty of the Built Environment
/ Happy is the city with great architecture. In Portland, that happy list includes the brick edifices along Commercial Street, the varied homes of the West End, the Wishcamper and Abromson buildings at USM, the Observatory, the Victorian houses perched in Deering Highlands, the Art Museum – an embarrassment of riches.
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Just What Bayside Has Been Waiting for, the Portland Flea-for-All!
/ Erin Kiley and Nathaniel Baldwin went through two years' worth of business planning, real estate hunting, and city permitting so that dozens of other entrepreneurs won't have to. Their enterprise, the Portland Flea-for-All, is about to open its doors in 3 stories of a gorgeously wood-beamed former mattress factory in the heart of Bayside.