One of my favorite kayak adventures is visiting the puffins on Eastern Egg Rock in outer Muscongus Bay. Each year, the colorful enigmatic seabirds arrive at the tiny barren atoll to breed and nest for a few weeks in June and July. Traveling to Eastern Egg is an ambitious undertaking. The roundtrip from Round Pond […]
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The Recycle Bin: New Maine law to get manufacturers, retailers using less packaging
With passage and the governor’s signing of Maine’s new Extended Producer Responsibility law, our state has taken a very bold initiative in the quest for a better environment. This is perhaps the most important piece of environmental legislation yet passed in the 21st century, and it leads the country in enacting such measures. Several other […]
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Morse High School’s Amber McGowan honored by Rotarians
The Bath Sunrise Rotary Club presented Amber McGowan with a Paul Harris Fellow service award on July 9, honoring McGowan for her efforts as Director of Student Services and a school counselor at Morse High School. A statement from the Rotary announcing the award reads: “As director of Student Services during the COVID-19 pandemic for […]
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Free Summer meals offered through the Bath YMCA
Y expands summer meal distribution through Aug. 27
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Wiscasset food pantry recipient of Damariscotta Hannaford bag program
St. Philip’s Help Yourself Shelf Food Pantry in Wiscasset is the recipient of the Damariscotta Hannaford’s Hannaford Helps Bags for a Cause program. For every usable bag purchased for $2.50, the pantry will receive $1. The Help Yourself Shelf at St. Philip’s in Wiscasset is open each Thursday from 3:30-5:30 p.m. for drive-by assistance. For […]
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Brunswick rally to protest Cuba embargo
Activists will hold a rally in Brunswick on Sunday, July 25, protesting the U.S. economic, commercial and financial embargo of Cuba, in place for 60 years. The event will take place rain or shine near the gazebo on the Town Mall from 3-4 p.m. Organizers of the rally say they want to persuade Maine congresspersons and senators to take action against that policy. […]
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Intertidal: Invasive species threaten Maine waters, here’s how you can fight back
Much attention has been paid to invasive species on land – barberry plants, for example. There are impressive efforts to remove them from parks and other public properties and programs to encourage people to plant native species. These are easy to see and identify and pose a problem for the native growth that they often […]
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Friends of Patten Free Library to hold library book sale
The Friends of Patten Free Library will host a book sale at the Winter Street Church Center at 880 Washington St. in Bath. The sale runs 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. July 23-24 and 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. July 25. Tables of books will be set up on the lawn in front of the […]
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Bath Area Family YMCA launches free swim program for New Americans
Y seeking volunteer instructors, donations
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Brunswick history center hosts Lincoln biographer
Author Ronald C. White, whose New York Times-bestselling books include American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant and A. Lincoln: A Biography, delivers the presentation “Joshua L. Chamberlain: Pieces of the Puzzle” on Wednesday, July 28, at 5 p.m., as part of his ongoing research for a comprehensive Chamberlain biography to be published by […]