The three-month closure is a compromise after scientists had advised a five-year ban.
September 2013
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Movie Review: Everything but imagination populates ‘Riddick’
“Riddick,” aka “The Sequel Nobody Wanted,” gets off to a surprisingly strong start. The eponymous anti-hero (Vin Diesel), an intergalactic outlaw with the ability to see in the dark, is stranded on a desert planet with no weapons or supplies, seriously wounded and relentlessly hunted by carnivorous aliens. There are scary dog-like predators that look […]
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
For poet Patricia Ranzoni of Bucksport, Maine is a place that emerges in September, after the summer visitors have gone.
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NFL Week 1 at a Glance
SUNDAY PATRIOTS at BILLS, 1 p.m. TV: CBS Outlook: The Patriots have had some major off-the-field issues, but they’re still the Pats and they always seem to handle their business when it comes to on-the-field issues. That’s especially true in Buffalo. The pick: Patriots BUCS at JETS, 1 p.m. Outlook: Is there any better team […]
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John Christie: A Greenville trek essential before summer ends
As we hop on the bike this weekend for our time-honored and traditional trip to the Fly-In in Greenville, we feel that familiar late-summer twinge reminding us that there are so many adventures upon which we planned to embark this summer that remain unexplored that we’d better start making some serious fall plans. Every summer […]
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Allen Afield: The road can go on forever for motorists and bicyclists
The fall bicycling season begins in earnest now, a grand time of year for this crowd. Days often stay cool enough so pedalers don’t sweat a gallon, but the September sun offers enough warmth to allow us to bicycle in shorts and a short-sleeve shirt — except at dawn and during cold snaps. In books […]
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Hunting: For greater good of deer herd, let hunting be in season
A stirring in the understory caught my attention as a sleek doe materialized from under the dense green foliage. Her thin, long-haired coat was as red as a fox, and her face looked thin. Almost bare. My heart raced as I clipped my release onto my bow string and tensed the muscles of my arms […]
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Michael Cuzzi: Republican silence as contemptible as LePage’s offense
Leaders stand by a governor they privately admit is a millstone around their necks.
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Art Review: ‘Mentor’ puts more than photographs in focus
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s “MENTOR: 40 Photographers/40 Years” is an exhibition featuring master photographers from the Maine Media Workshops & College and their students — many of whom in turn have become leading American artists. Organized by CMCA curator emeritus Bruce Brown, MMW professor Brenton Hamilton and CMCA director Suzette McAvoy, this impressive […]
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Three new exhibitions at Ogunquit
OGUNQUIT — The Ogunquit Museum of American Art is continuing its 60th anniversary celebration this month with three new exhibits, “Emerging Artists,” “The York Hospital Collection” and “Charles and Marcia: The Woodburys in Holland.” The exhibits will run through the balance of the museum season, which ends Oct. 31. Featured in “Emerging Artists” are up-and-coming […]