Maine Coast Heritage Trust announced recently that after a decade-long tenure, Tim Glidden will step down as the organization’s president at the end of 2021. Trust chairperson Tom Armstrong announced that the board of directors is embarking on a national search to identify Glidden’s successor. “Tim’s vision and expertise have been instrumental to an era […]

There has been much in the news of late about space exploration including the efforts of SpaceX, the recent landing of the Perseverance Rover on Mars, and even the local efforts of blueShift Aerospace to put satellites into orbit using a bio-fueled rocket. And while there is certainly plenty to explore beyond Earth, there is […]

There are 25 towns in Maine that have enacted an ordinance that either bans single-use plastic bags or requires stores to charge for them. When, in 2019, the 129th Legislature voted to adopt LD 1532, it made Maine the fourth state to enact statewide limitations on the use of these bags. The law had wide […]

It is a rare treat to get a personal letter from a reader asking a question – particularly one that arrives in the mailbox at the end of my driveway rather than the one the exists on the screen in front of me. This one even had a sample of a specimen accompanying the question. […]

Our topic this week is old books, on which I’ve received several recent inquiries. First, of course, we need to get over believing an old book cannot morally be discarded. When I worked on several large summer book sales in Brunswick, we were faced, at the end of the sale, with disposing of up to […]