Among the exotic birds our columnist found were the Puerto Rican flycatcher, green mango (a hummingbird), Puerto Rican oriole, Adelaide’s warbler and Puerto Rican woodpecker.
June 2022
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Walk-up campsites are harder to find at Maine state parks
After two years of record-setting demand for camping sites, the state has cut back on its allotment of non-reservable sites by 47 percent.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State
New England fuel dealers plot their future in a rapidly electrifying world
As more mandates and incentives are rolled out to fight climate change, a strategy emerges to cast doubt on electrification while talking up renewable liquid fuels.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State, Review
Society Notebook: Culinary students whip up support for LearningWorks with new cookbook
A launch party for ‘The LearningWorks YouthBuild Cookbook’ raised $50,000 for the Portland nonprofit.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Maine’s educators are exhausted
Teachers, administrators and a social worker from across the state told us about the unprecedented challenges they faced during the school year that mercifully ended last week.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: Two books, one soothing, one a lot less so
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘My Father Could Take Apart a Dryer,’ by Jefferson Navicky
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Vet clinic did not deserve online attack
We’re upset about ignorant, vicious attacks upon the Maine Veterinary Medical Center and its staff. As owners of a cat, Albus, who has been a MVMC patient for almost five years, we attest to the consistent professionalism, expertise and compassion demonstrated by its staff. What was initially thought to be muscle pain devolved into paralysis. […]
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: From under a desk, a silent student bears witness with a poem
The children are watching, a teacher pleads, and they can see we are not keeping them safe.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.