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2019
Intense questioning fails to pierce CMP explanation: ‘The usage is the usage’
Nearly two years after a new billing system triggered thousands of complaints, the utility is sticking its story – most high bills ultimately were a result of customers using more power than they realized.
Hiking: Heald and Bradley Ponds Reserve offers ponds, peaks and views of the Whites
Overseen by the Greater Lovell Land Trust, the 800-acre reserve is crisscrossed by a network of connecting trails.
State’s ‘forever chemical’ restrictions not applied to compost
Environmental protection overseers still allow sales of the nutrient-rich product used by landscapers and gardeners, even though it’s made with PFAS-laced municipal sludge.
Informed by his own birth, Minter illustrates book about midwives
‘The Women Who Caught the Babies’ is a series of connected poems by Eloise Greenfield about midwives and their role in African-American culture.
Letter to the editor: Senate carbon-pricing bill would jibe with Angus King’s views
On July 17, in an impassioned speech before the Senate, Maine’s Angus King called on his fellow lawmakers to fulfill their responsibility to leave future generations free from debt – both financial, in terms of the nation’s deficit, and environmental, as in the carbon debt accrued from our use of fossil fuels, which brings with […]
Letter to the editor: Airport fee hike is another grab for travelers’ wallets
It is hard to understate just how much money airports have to work with these days. The amount of money that airports took in per passenger was up 47 percent this century from 2000 to 2018, and is now at $30 billion a year. If you travel a lot, you will see that most large […]
Melissa Sweet shows ‘How to Read a Book’
The Maine illustrator teams with Kwame Alexander for his poem-turned-book.
A gardener’s work is never done
How to get rid of weeds? Get out there and regularly weed.
The View From Here: Disinformation on wheels
As the 2020 campaign season starts, be on the lookout for messages aimed at fueling distraction and division.