The latest news from Main Street Gardiner!
Draft of Heart of Gardiner plan includes range of recommendations, including enhancing the entrances to downtown Gardiner and redesigning Arcade parking lot.
Although Gardiner Main Street will not be organizing a Downtown Trick or Treating event this year, we would like to share other Halloween celebrations happening in the Gardiner area.
More than a thousand people attend Saturday's annual Gardiner food and beverage event.
Gardiner is one of six featured cities in the statewide event and has coordinated citywide events to showcase locally made work and give people a chance to visit where the work is made.
Gardiner Main Street is excited to return to a live Swine and Stein Brewfest event for 2021! After a pandemic hiatus, our beer festival in the streets of historic downtown Gardiner will be on Saturday, October 9th from 12 to 5pm with all day tasting of craft beverages, a full line up of great music, […]
People who live or work in Gardiner, as well as visitors, are invited to share their ideas for a vibrant downtown area at a July 14 meeting — part of an effort to draft a downtown master plan for the next decade.
Main Streets with moxie! In Down East magazine's July 2021 issue, we took a look at six of our favorite downtowns from all across the state — and the businesses, buildings, and boosters that make them great. Read up on more of Maine’s best small-town downtowns and start planning your next road trip
A fundraising campaign is now underway to pay for reconstruction of the fountain in the Gardiner Common honoring a city native who has a legacy that reaches far beyond Maine.
“Let’s face it- Most financial institutions offer the same products and services and there seems to be a bank or credit union on every corner. Part of my job is showing people why they should choose Gardiner FCU. For us, the difference is a personal connection with each one of our 5,400+ members. We are […]
FAUSTINE: Our buyers are fantastic and they do a lot of the work that keeps us competitive with larger stores. We’re very lucky that people are constantly asking to do business with us including local Maine businesses. We sell a lot of Maine-made food products which have a huge market. It allows small producers to […]
BRANDI: I always wanted my own restaurant and I didn’t want to be like anyone else in the area. Gardiner is a historic town and we wanted a name that fit in with that theme. The term Blind Pig comes from the prohibition era when cops would turn a blind eye to speakeasies and places […]
Announcing Gardiner Rotary Club’s fundraiser for the restoration of Lady and the Birds fountain at the Common. This commemorative public art is named for Gideon S. Palmer, Civil War regimental surgeon and later, Director of Freedmen’s Hospital.Our fountain is more than 100 years old and needs extensive repairs to the concrete, the plumbing, the electrical. […]