Events, Natural Bounty Boost Tourist Seasons ; Lakes Region: Businesses and Civic Groups Work to Give Visitors Plenty to Do Almost Year-Round.

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You spend a lot of time praying, if you're in the tourism business in Maine. Praying for warm weather and sunny skies in the summer, spectacular foliage in the fall, snow in the winter and in the spring . . . well, mud-and-black fly season simply has to be endured.

"That's probably the downside of being a year-round attraction," said Barbara Clark, executive director of the Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce.

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Events, Natural Bounty Boost Tourist Seasons ; Lakes Region: Businesses and Civic Groups Work to Give Visitors Plenty to Do Almost Year-Round.

While the coast has only the summer to worry about, and northern Maine has its winter, businesses in the Lakes Region have come to rely on year-round tourism, with events a...

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