Their original goal wasn’t to revolutionize how auto repair places are run. Robin Mainer and Kimera Shepler had found themselves at the end of a long road selling individual health insurance ...

Mainer's Mountaineers was Mainer with his older brother, J.E. Mainer, and the duo were popular in the '30s. The younger Mainer invented a two-finger banjo picking style that proved to be the ...

Flint Township’s Wade Mainer, known as the “Grandfather of Bluegrass,” died Monday in his home at age 104.

Julia Mainer, wife and musical partner of late bluegrass musician Wade Mainer, passed away on Jan. 21 at the age of 95.

Ninety-two year old Julia Mainer has one word to describe her late husband, Wade Mainer, the bluegrass pioneer who died Monday at age 104: "Wonderful." “He was a wonderful husband and we love ...

Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer credited with inventing the two-finger banjo-picking style that paved the way for the bluegrass era, has died. He was 104.

Maine's residency requirement shouldn't be an issue for the former Maine CDC director. That doesn't mean opponents won't push it.

Wade Mainer Wade Mainer, who died on September 12 aged 104, was described as the “Grandfather of Bluegrass” due to his two-finger “fingerpicking” banjo style, which formed the foundation ...

What makes a real Mainer? Short film ‘Heritable’ has a humorous take The semi-documentary by Belfast native Eli Kao is screening at the Camden International Film Festival this month.

To the Editor: My first visit to Maine in 1997 was a week’s vacation on Long Lake. My brother and I had sprung for a house on the lake to celebrate my parents’ 40th anniversary. On our first ...

The Penobscot County Sheriff's Office responded to Pushaw Road in Glenburn on Sunday around 6:40 p.m. for reports of an ...