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Bill to facilitate coastal rebuilding in Harpswell expanded to all towns

A bill initiated and co-written by Harpswell officials to facilitate coastal rebuilding from the January 2024 storms has been expanded to include all coastal communities in Maine. Maine Senate President Mattie Daughtry, D-Brunswick, submitted the bill, L.D. 1864, to the Legislature in early May. It would allow working waterfront property owners to bypass certain zoning rules so they […]

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Maine is home to lady slippers of the land and sea

They’re weird but beautiful. Part of the allure is that they are also rare and that they are harbingers of spring. These pink forest flowers quietly emerge each year flashing a pink blossom among the otherwise pale green palette. Like fiddleheads, which I wrote about a few weeks ago, lady slippers are early spring flowers, […]