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• Deep in the Maine Woods, a Giant Bill Pennington, New York Times

  What's the largest ski resort in the Northeast? Killington, right? Everybody knows that. But what’s the second biggest? Stowe? Whiteface? Okemo? Wrong, wrong and wrong.

  If you asked people leaving a ski store in the metropolitan New York area this question, as I recently did, it would be a very long time before someone mentions Sunday River, the vast resort of eight peaks in central Maine. With 668 skiable acres, it is the Northeast’s second-biggest resort.

  Sunday River is the behemoth of the Eastern ski industry that only Boston-area skiers seem to know about. Even people in Vermont, upstate New York or Southern New England don’t often venture to Sunday River. It is a sprawling mountain getaway with few crowds. It is the unhurried, somewhat untried giant waiting to be fully discovered 50 years after it opened.

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• Sunday River announces the opening of New England's first and only ChondolaThe Boston Globe

  Ever since Boyne Resorts had acquired Sunday River in August, 2007 for it's portfolio of ski resorts across the US, the company has vowed to provide long-term investment for Sunday River to improve and expand it's operations. At the time, already a fourth largest ski resort in New England, with half a million yearly visitors, Sunday River had been consistently ranked in the top 10 across the US by SKI magazine.

  In 2008/2009 season skiers can reap the benefits of $14 million in capital spending, largest in the last 10 years. Among the improvements is a $7.2 million Chondola - a fusion of a gondola and a chairlift, which gets you to the peaks faster than ever.

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• Natural Elegance Finds its Peak on Merrill HillBethel Citizen

  Good Morning! This is your wake-up call from Merrill Hill Estates. Time to rethink your hectic schedule? Nestled in the heart of Sunday River moments away from world-class amenities at every turn is the reward you have been seeking for your hard work.

  Reward yourself with a getaway that’s more than just another resort community. It is land that is as spectacular in summer, swathed in green, as it is in fall ablaze with orange and red, and now in winter, blanketed with snow. Few sights are as aweinspiring as the glistening wintry vistas of these ski slopes and the Mahoosucs. Natural homesites, designed to compliment surroundings with underground utilities, boast uncompromised views through four dramatically different seasons. Find peace and pleasure in a gated neighborhood committed to the preservation of nature. Call today. Tomorrow morning could be very good.

  Merrill Hill Estates sets the standards for Natural Elegance in the heart of Sunday River with an environment so precious the streets are named for gemstones found in the region. Merrill Hill is The Crown Jewel of Sunday River. Call today for information on The Discovery Collection 2-10 Acre Homesites starting at $200,000 941-356-6225 info@merrillhillestates.com.

• Merrill Hill Estates Welcomes You to the Light of HomeBethel Citizen

  In all your travels, you have never found a place that so clearly reflects your feelings about home. Peaceful, private, serene and naturally, just beautiful. Discover a place where your heart is home. Very rarely does one find the perfect balance of opportunity and timing. This threshold to paradise located perfectly between resort amenities of Sunday River and the raw beauty of the Mountains of Western Maine awaits a setting worthy of the dream home you have been building in your mind. With large private homesites, Mahoosucs and slope views, streams, Sunday River, hiking trails, skiing, pavilion, underground utilities and fiber optics the Private Gated Community of Merrill Hill Estates will fill your days with pursuits and pleasures profoundly beyond the ordinary. Although you have yet to walk your dream home’s destined setting, your heart already knows the place.

  Merrill Hill Estates sets the standards for Natural Elegance in the heart of Sunday River with an environment so precious the streets are named for gemstones found in the region. Merrill Hill is The Crown Jewel of Sunday River. Call today for information on The Discovery Collection 2-10 Acre Homesites starting at $200,000 941-356-6225 info@merrillhillestates.com.

• Dream Making at Merrill Hill Estates

  The mission of Merrill Hill Estates is to create homes and amenities which inspire a healthy lifestyle, with privacy, while complementing the natural beauty of the environment. Merrill Hill is a 460-acre parcel of land that runs along Sunday River to the peak of Merrill Hill. The founders' goal is to protect the natural wonders that drew them here in the first place, with protective covenants, architectural guidelines and underground utilities. Inspired by local gemologists, streets were named for gemstones found in this mineral rich area.

  When you have your boots on the ground at Merrill Hill you feel like you are in the middle of everything at Sunday River. Merrill Hill is flanked by Sunday River’s golf course, ski slopes and Jordan Grand Hotel. Just “Google it” to see exactly how close Merrill Hill is to these world-class amenities. In some spots it seems you can reach out and touch Oz. Homesites range from 2 to 10 acres , each a one-of-kind trophy property, in a gated neighborhood. Glade trails exist in the 100 acre private recreation area, and as more homes are built a pavilion is planned for homeowners.

  Michael Bosse of Mountain Homes of the West, built in Vail, Colorado for fifteen years. He now shares the Merrill Hill vision of quality and style, with this new home nearing completion, a mixed-media design blending with natural elements, innovative technology, a green building and materials from the site. There is no doubt that living in a fine home in a beautiful setting will always define the American Dream, and the Merrill Hill vision.

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