Fire strikes Ferry Village in 1897

    On Friday, July 17, in Cape Elizabeth, University of New England Professor of Environmental Studies Thomas Klak began to pollinate one of the state’s few surviving American chestnut trees with a blight-tolerant pollen speed-bred by Klak and his students. The pollen contains an extra gene from wheat, allowing it to resist the fungal […]

Five keepers will be recognized during July 25 event.

Thankful for generosity To the editor, There are so many challenges these days that being able to talk about something good, even under bad circumstances, is a wonderful thing. I have been helping a young man from another country who is struggling. As it turns out, he bought a car where someone took advantage of […]