Cardinals are red, crows are black, and gulls have a penchant for sandwich stealing. Therein lies my bird-watching wisdom. Or lack thereof. I often watch my neighbor’s bird feeders, which are placed agreeably close to my kitchen window. But when it comes to identifying the sundry winged visitors who frequent that South Portland hot spot, […]
March 2010
Posted inOpinion
Maine Observer: Going a long way to encounter home
The surroundings were Swiss, the language was Italian and the topic – well, the topic was familiar.
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Posted inSports
Sports Digest
BIATHLON U.S. CHAMPIONSHIPS: Walt Shepard of Yarmouth finished second in both the U.S. and North American Championships at Fort Kent. Shepard, who was also second in Thursday’s sprint, finished 12.5 seconds behind U.S. Olympian Wynn Roberts of Battle Lake, Minn. Shepard was perfect at his first and last shooting stations but missed two targets on […]
Posted inLife & Culture
Travel: Smaller national parks
All over the country are monuments to science, beauty and history.
Posted inLife & Culture
Travel: Hemingway house named landmark
KEY WEST, Fla. — Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home, where the American author lived in the 1930s, has been designated a literary landmark. Hemingway, who lived in the Spanish-colonial home with his second wife, Pauline, and two sons, owned the property until his death in 1961. It became a museum in 1964. He worked on […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Fascinating tome of Mainers who ‘went away’
Maine has a special capacity – out of all proportion to its size – to lead by example. We tend to think of this dynamic in communal or civic terms, but in his latest book Neil Rolde ratchets it up to the plane of individual destiny. “Maine in the World” celebrates the deeds of a […]
Posted inOutdoors
Volunteers needed to track cemetery bird communities
PORTLAND — Project Canopy, the city of Portland and Maine Audubon Society are developing a project working with area birders to monitor changes in Evergreen Cemetery’s bird communities. “We’re encouraging experienced birders to volunteer their time and record bird observations while walking and then to report their findings to Cornell’s eBird site,” Project Canopy director […]
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Chick-lit dream to a zombie reality
Carrie Ryan watched a George Romero film, and it changed her life.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Butler’s getting better – a little – at romantic comedy
Three films into his romantic comedy career, Gerard Butler has finally reached “watchable.” With “The Bounty Hunter,” the bemused Scots leading man comes closer to setting off sparks with his newest leading lady, Jennifer Aniston. Well, closer than he came with Hilary Swank (“P.S. I Love You”) or Katherine Heigl (“The Ugly Truth”). The comedy […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: March 21, 2010
Blowing hot and cold on wind There are legitimate complaints about wind power, but grossly untrue statements by overzealous critics like Jonathan Carter (Maine Voices: “Wind power comes at great cost,” Feb. 28) do little to reveal them. He says the 48-tower Highland Mountains project in western Maine proposed by former Gov. Angus King […]