CAPE ELIZABETH — The Cape Farm Alliance will host its 11th Strawberry Festival at Maxwell’s Farm Saturday, yet farms all across town are all coming up short with a key ingredient – strawberries. The festival celebrates the kick-off of strawberry season, a traditional crop in Cape Elizabeth, and this year the strawberry season is running […]
Mo Mehlsak
Mo Mehlsak is executive editor of The Forecaster, American Journal and Lakes Region Weekly. He's a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and started his career in Los Angeles, where he covered the retail side of the automotive industry for Automotive Age magazine and later became a business writer for the Los Angeles Daily News. Mo moved to Maine in 1984 with his wife and first child, and after a year as a stay-at-home dad and freelance journalist, became a business writer and columnist for the Journal Tribune in Biddeford. He eventually became the paper's features editor, editor of the weekend edition and eventually, city editor. He joined The Forecaster in 2004 as managing editor and became executive editor in 2006. Mo and his wife raised two daughters in Cape Elizabeth, and now reside in South Portland.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
The Universal Notebook: Separation of church and state (and school)
School funding should follow the student, but not too far.
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Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster, Uncategorized
Cooking at the Cove: In the midst of June
Summer pasta and rosemary lemonade are opening acts for a fudgy ice cream dessert.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Coastal History: Mural-maker captured Bath’s shipbuilding legacy
Among other places, artist Jim Stilphen’s work can be found in a tunnel and on a post office wall.
Posted inCoastal Journal
Sande’s Picks: Food, beverages at Bath Heritage Days
The City of Ships celebrates its history and the birth of our nation with plenty to eat and drink.
Posted inThe Forecaster
Out & About: Two great musicals: ‘42nd Street’ and ‘Grease’
Productions by Ogunquit Playhouse and a Maine State Music Theatre/The Public Theatre collaboration are superb.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Donation to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick gives grieving parents gift of time
The Cuddle Cot delays deterioration of a deceased child’s body; it is a tool hospital staff hope they will never have to use.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
The Universal Notebook: Separation of church and state (and school)
School funding should follow the student, but not too far.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Politics & Other Mistakes: Paying for praying
The floodgates will open if Maine starts paying tuition for church-sponsored schools.
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Mainewhile: The clock is ticking; do we care?
Change is possible, but only if we’re willing to make it happen.