Liberty Graphics in Midcoast Maine is tackling the biggest order in its history: 35,000 copies of a vintage 1990s T-shirt worn by Taylor Swift.
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End of summer brings a rare sight on Maquoit Bay
The end of summer is always hard. And somehow this year, with the warm, dry weather that persisted well into September, it felt particularly hard to reconcile that Sept. 21 was the last official day of summer. That bright sunlight that has kept us warm these past months will begin to be less warm as […]
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The sea has truffle treasures of its own
Maybe it was the cute little pile of pigs at the Topsham fair that made me want to write about truffles. I’m also always on the hunt for something to eat that I can find in the wild. When most people think of truffles, they think of those prized but ugly little treasure nosed up […]
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Air quality, like the haze from the Canadian wildfires, affects health of our water
“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailors take warning.” But what if the sky is red at night and in the morning — as it has been recently as a result of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. These very red sunrises and sunsets have seemed somehow ominous — the hazy […]
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Orange baby lobsters, the rarest of their kind, find a new home in Maine’s ocean
The odds of finding an orange lobster are 1 in 30 million. The University of New England just released 15 orange babies, no wider than a thumb and no longer than a pinky, into the wild to defy those odds.
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A look at how some ocean-dwellers mother
Following up on last week’s column about seal pups and because this weekend is Mother’s Day, I am writing about some amazing ocean mothers. There is a wide range of mothering styles among ocean animals as well as degrees of independence of their offspring from an early age. Starting with seals, they follow the more […]
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It’s pupping season for Maine’s grey and harbor seals
It is officially May! Many May traditions center around flowers — May poles decorated with them and bulbs planted in the fall starting to pop open with new petals. This is a time of emergence of many types of animal life as well — both on land and in the sea. On a recent visit […]
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Protecting Maine’s unsung underwater hero — algae
Amid climate uncertainty, curators at the Bigelow National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota are hopeful that if there’s a bright spot, it’s hidden below the ocean’s surface.
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The gripping ‘Slippery Beast’ is part crime tale, part natural history
Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a deep dive into the facts, figures and fascinating people that swirl around the intriguing eel.
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Land and sea life meet in salt marshes
All the snow and ice on the ground make it hard to imagine, but green shoots will be emerging again in the not too far off future. This week’s warmer weather revealed some soggy patches of grasses that have been hidden for a stretch. This happened not just in parks and yards but also along […]