Do you want improved performance, comfort and durability of your home? Freeport Climate Action Now recently presented a very informative public program at the Freeport Community Center giving the audience of 50 homeowners resources to assess their home’s energy movement. Experts presented great information on energy efficiency and weatherization, plus state and town programs to […]
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Intertidal: ‘Fisheries in Our Town’ provides info on living and working on the waterfront
If you’re looking for something to do next Tuesday evening (March 7) and want to learn a bit about what’s happening on the waterfront, you can attend a free, informal community event to be held in Freeport. “Fisheries in Our Town” is the latest working waterfront panel presentation in a series of events that have […]
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Your Land: Drone footage of Mere Brook a true gift
The other day I got a gift. It arrived amid the little torrent of my daily email, and it was wrapped in the usual — meaning I thought it was another piece of work to do or question to answer. It was, after all, email No. 7 in a string that had begun some time […]
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Mosquito Mountain is better than the name
Mosquito Mountain has a very unappealing name. I don’t like mosquitos or black flies and do my best to avoid them when participating in outdoor activities. After decades of scrupulous plotting and scheming, I’ve become quite adept at eluding the nasty little bloodsuckers. And, I can say with great certainty that mosquitos will not be […]
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People Plus hosts new fiber arts spinning group
Bring your spinning wheel and join the new Fiber Arts Spinning Club at People Plus on the second and fourth Friday of every month from 10 am. to noon. Spinning is about using a spinning wheel or spindle to transform fiber, usually wool, into yarn to be used for knitting, crocheting or weaving. It is […]
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News from All Saints Parish
Brunswick Lenten dinners to raise money for local charities In an effort to give to others at Lent, All Saints Parish in Brunswick will be contributing all proceeds from their traditional Lenten haddock chowder dinners to several area service providers, including the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, Tedford Shelter, The Gathering Place, Habitat for Humanity, […]
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BoomerTECH Adventures: Learning about artificial intelligence, Part I
“I don’t want to insist on it, Dave, but I am incapable of making an error.” – HAL 9000, the sentient computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey” Over the past month, I have begun to feel as if I am living in a science fiction novel. AI, or artificial intelligence, is generating poetry, creating images […]
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Intertidal: Jonah crabs are worth a taste
Maybe it’s because it was Mardi Gras this week that I was fondly remembering the experience of eating freshly cooked crawfish with my hands, sucking out their meat along with the spicy seasonings in which they were cooked that coated their shells and delightfully tossing their bodies right onto the ground at an outdoor restaurant. […]
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The Recycle Bin: Brunswick residents compost more
“Taking out the garbage can be such a drag, there’s some crusty old gristle hanging off a dishrag … ” is the first line of the Garbage Song I play on my guitar. “If I hadn’t mixed it all in this bag, taking out the garbage wouldn’t be such a drag.” The chorus goes “Uh-huh, […]
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Quarry Road Trails is a Nordic skiing gem
When our friends, John and Diane Stokinger, invited my wife, Nancy, and me to join them for Nordic skiing and snowshoeing at Quarry Road Trails in Waterville, I was skeptical. Although vaguely aware of the existence of ski trails in that central Maine community, I didn’t know anything about them. The Stokingers knowledge was also […]