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    July 27, 2013

    Deirdre Fleming: Allagash flows with tales for an old woodsman to tell

    Tim Caverly has lived the charmed life of a Maine woodsman. And in his third career, he’s sharing the stories from it. Caverly worked as a state park ranger for 32 years, with 18 spent on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. He then went on to work in the Millinocket school system, but soon left to […]

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    July 27, 2013

    North Cairn: A trace of September in summer

    I have harvested precisely four wild raspberries. It might sound like a pathetic showing but that represents a 400 percent increase over last summer, when whatever fruit was to be gotten was plucked by birds, small mammals and my landlord — who, of course, knew where they could be found on his own property and […]

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    July 27, 2013

    What’s Up in August: A month for a little introspection

    This will be a good month to continue to develop a larger cosmic perspective of our home planet. As we become more aware of our place in space and how small the earth really is in the context of our sun and just our own family of planets, we will work more effectively together to […]

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    July 27, 2013

    Allen Afield: Central Maine is the base for the state’s best bassing

    Bill Woodward, a bass fisherman and retired fisheries biologist from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIF&W), recently told me that central Maine produces the state’s best bass fishing. This man worked for DIF&W in Franklin County and Down East, the latter a bassing mecca, before settling into Region B in central Maine. Woodward […]

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    July 27, 2013

    Carey Kish: A scenic spot that’s well worth the trek

    The pink and purple hues of sunset over Whiting Bay have faded into the gray tones of evening, and the brownish-green rockweed beds clinging to the shoreline are now one shade darker than the sky, lit up here and there by dancing fireflies. The great tide has shifted, as evidenced by the clots of seaweed […]

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    July 27, 2013

    Best Bets

    WEDNESDAY Habitat Study 10 to 11 a.m. in Boothbay The Boothbay Region Land Trust is hosting a lesson in plot studies, a technique of cataloging what flora and fauna lie on this coastal landscape. To register, call 633-4818 or email thall@bbrlt.org. Barefoot on the Brook Trail 10 a.m. in West Rockport The Georges River Land […]

  • Published
    July 20, 2013

    Wreckage reminds us of what it means to serve our country

    Evidence of the sacrifice of duty remains scattered on Elephant Mountain, site of a B-52 crash in 1963.

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    July 20, 2013

    North Cairn: Staying rooted through loss

    For days I have watched the Indian pipe. Despite the unrelenting heat, this unmistakable plant, a small encampment of eerie white in a sea of green and ground cover, has unfurled itself under the hemlocks along the drive to my little cabin. Its stark contrast to the surrounding woodlands makes it a striking find, though […]

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    July 20, 2013

    Deirdre Fleming: Moosehead’s quietude something for tourists to talk about

    GREENVILLE – The end of log driving days and the closing of wood mills has whittled down the population in northern Maine. Aroostook County shrank from 106,064 in 1960 to 70,868 in 2012, according to the U.S. census. And in Piscataquis County, home of Maine’s largest lake, the population has remained stagnant, with a reported […]

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    July 20, 2013

    Josh Christie: Ladder hikes are a step up when visiting Acadia

    One of the most loved parts of the Maine outdoors is Acadia National Park, the paradise for hiking, biking, and paddling that sits on our Down East coast. The area that is now Acadia National Park has been a haven for visitors for centuries, starting with French explorers in the early 1600s. In the 20th […]