The “cancer hospitality house” helps rural Maine cancer patients who face long-distance travel to the Bangor-Brewer area for care without an affordable place to stay.
After 20 fallow years and then help from the Holden Land Trust and Maine Farmland Trust, a mid-19th-century farm in Holden has new owners who are rapidly bringing the operation back to life.
Mortgage closing costs dropped 7% nationally over the past year, with Maine having the fifth-lowest costs in the nation, according to numbers released Monday by Bankrate.com.