Friends of Seguin Island Light Station will host its annual Fallfest fundraiser on Nov. 6, 5:30-9 p.m. at the Taste of Maine restaurant in Woolwich. Comedian John Ater will entertain following a buffet dinner. There will also be live and silent auctions. Tickets are $45 and are available at keeper@seguinisland.org or by calling (207) 443-4808. […]

The water temperature has definitely dropped. After peaking in August somewhere in the low to mid-60s and staying warm through much of September, October is the month where the temperature starts to fall. It doesn’t drop by many degrees, but once it gets into the lower 50s, it just feels different. It isn’t as frigid, […]

With Thanksgiving and the holidays approaching, the American Red Cross urges donors to continue to make and keep appointments now and in the weeks ahead to help overcome the ongoing emergency blood and platelet shortage that has significantly impacted the nation’s blood supply. The current blood supply is the lowest the Red Cross has seen […]

Two millennia ago, the Roman writer Columella described the vintoria falx, a six-part, specialized pruning tool for grapes. What a stir that tool must have caused among Roman grape growers when it was first introduced! A more recent innovation in pruning, in the last century or so, was the pole pruner, which is a pruning […]