Have you driven on a Maine road lately? Of course you have. Did your car survive the experience? Never mind your car, how about you? Are your dental fillings still in place?? After a particularly jarring trip to town the other day I was reminded of the Weekly Reader, which we used to get in […]
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Plan looks at future of Scarborough's Dunstan Corner
SCARBOROUGH – Despite completion just six weeks away of a $3 million project to remake Dunstan Corner in Scarborough, the area still has an image problem. Or, more correctly, according to community planning think tank Sustain Southern Maine, it has an “imageability problem.” Imageability, says Bangor-based planner Evan Richert, the lead consultant for Sustain Southern […]
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Resident input sought on Cape Elizabeth trails
CAPE ELIZABETH – The Cape Elizabeth Conservation Commission has a new map and they’d like you to come and deface it. At two community forums, one to be held Thursday, May 30, and another on Tuesday, June 11, the public will be asked to mark up town maps with their favorite or most-hoped-for hiking trails, […]
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A living classroom
SOUTH PORTLAND – Trout Brook in South Portland is living up to its name, thanks to a little help from city school children. On Thursday, May 23, fourth-graders from the Dyer and Skillin elementary schools released into the impaired stream baby trout, known as “fry,” which they raised as part of Portland Water District’s Classroom […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES: Still waiting
A few weeks ago, I wandered into In’finiti, a new brewpub and distillery on the Portland waterfront. I wasn’t looking for a topic for a political column. I was looking for a beer. I hate it when politics intrudes on happy hour, but that’s the price I pay for being a journalist and not having […]
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GIRLS LACROSSE: Scarborough sinks Kennebunk in rain-soaked matchup
SCARBOROUGH – Scarborough’s Kaitlin Prince fired the tying goal and Ainsley Jamieson the go-ahead goal on the way to the Storm’s 13-8 victory over Kennebunk on a very rainy Friday afternoon. Scarborough, who improve to 7-4 on the season, are ranked second in Class A West, behind Marshwood as the Storm prepare for their last […]
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GIRLS LACROSSE: Scarborough sinks Kennebunk in rain-soaked matchup
SCARBOROUGH – Scarborough’s Kaitlin Prince fired the tying goal and Ainsley Jamieson the go-ahead goal on the way to the Storm’s 13-8 victory over Kennebunk on a very rainy Friday afternoon. Scarborough, who improve to 7-4 on the season, are ranked second in Class A West, behind Marshwood as the Storm prepare for their last […]
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GIRLS LACROSSE: Scarborough sinks Kennebunk in rain-soaked matchup
SCARBOROUGH – Scarborough’s Kaitlin Prince fired the tying goal and Ainsley Jamieson the go-ahead goal on the way to the Storm’s 13-8 victory over Kennebunk on a very rainy Friday afternoon. Scarborough, who improve to 7-4 on the season, are ranked second in Class A West, behind Marshwood as the Storm prepare for their last […]
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Maine lawmakers divided over bill to end fines for lobster bycatch
Maine’s groundfishermen call the change necessary; lobstermen fear it will harm the state’s most valuable fishery.
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Artist Mary Byrom captures the always changing natural world
Mary Byrom is a leader among Maine painters who brave any weather, year-round, to capture the always changing natural world.