WINTHROP — There’s no “drama” in the trailer next to the tennis courts.

AUGUSTA — Fresh from her victory as Miss Maine USA, Ali Clair is gearing up for the Miss USA pageant, which will be held in Las Vegas in June.

WATERVILLE — In the mid-1980s, central Mainers were vastly more familiar with L.L. Bean than LL Cool J.

BINGHAM — An entrepreneur who bought an old mill months ago recently took over a local restaurant, hoping to bring more business to the town.

Anyone who hasn’t visited that address ought to.

With the exception of Gov. Paul LePage and his confidants, nobody knows what the governor will say when he delivers his State of the State address Tuesday night.

The Oak Grove Center nursing home in Waterville swirled with activity last week, with a beano game in one room, two women chatting over coffee in another, and an ambulance crew wheeling in a new resident on a gurney.