Bike-shares may be expensive, but the results in Boston since 2011 have been encouraging enough for Portland to mull such a program.
Deirdre Fleming
Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.
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Class A Track: Scarborough’s on top
The Red Storm boys and Bangor girls capture state titles in meets with outstanding performances.
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Moose: Ever a Maine attraction
No time is better for spotting the big beasts than during the birthing season, when yearlings are sent off.
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State records set in Class A track & field championships
Records are set in the girls’ 400-meter run and the discus.
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Track: Falmouth and York are focused on a title
The teams shared the Class B boys’ track title last year and are top contenders again.
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SMAA track: It’s a breeze for Scots, Storm
Bonny Eagle dominates the girls’ meet, and Scarborough captures the boys’ title by a wide margin.
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High School Track Notebook: Cheverus boys aiming high for league, state meets
In most years, teams that win the SMAA track and field championship go on to win the Class A state championship. That’s what happened last year, when the Sanford boys and Scarborough girls took both titles. Cheverus boys’ coach Steve Virgilio is hoping his team will follow a similar course. “Usually, (the SMAA meet is) […]
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New trails for bikes to blaze
If the New England Mountain Bike Association’s newest chapter gets its way, there’ll be new paths from Millinocket to Searsport.
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High School Track Notebook: A Swan-song season for Mt. Ararat standout
The Glenn D. Loucks Games in White Plains, N.Y. has been the showplace of future world-class track and field athletes such as Alberto Salazar. This weekend at the 45th running of the event, it will be the training ground for 11 Mt. Ararat athletes, including one who could score. The prestigious event brings together athletes […]
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Freshwater Fishing Report
Being the size of all the other New England states combined, Maine has a variety of fishing opportunities. That’s never more evident than this time of year, when fishermen are enjoying fast action during smelt runs in one part of Maine and waiting for the ice to go out in other parts. Either way, this […]