FREEPORT– As part of a  $10 million collaboration, Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment is attempting a “farming revolution” to combat carbon emissions and the effects of climate change, according to the Freeport nonprofit’s executive director, David Herring. Working with Stonyfield Organic, the USDA’s LandPKS project and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture, […]

Portland officials are beginning to wind down emergency operations at the Portland Expo, which was converted into a temporary shelter nearly two months ago to accommodate the sudden arrival of hundreds of African migrants who crossed the Mexico border to seek asylum.  City officials have set an Aug. 15 deadline to close the shelter at […]

The U.S. Senate adjourned Thursday for a five-week recess without taking up a series of bipartisan bills aimed at securing the election systems from foreign interference.  Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, who oversees Maine’s elections and served on President Trump’s ill-fated election fraud commission, said he was disappointed but not surprised by the Senate’s failure to respond. […]

A shark sighted by a Kennebunkport harbormaster off Goose Rocks Beach on Thursday morning was probably a great white shark, but without photographic evidence there is no way to state with certainty that the creature was indeed one of the ocean’s most feared predators.  Jim Sulikowski, a shark researcher, said the shark’s reported length (12 […]

PORTLAND — A Maine Democratic Senate hopeful disclosed using her leadership political action committee to reimburse herself for political contributions in 2015 and 2016, according to state and federal campaign finance reports.  Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon’s campaign manager Amy Mesner said Thursday that Gideon’s fundraising committee received “incorrect guidance on how to process” such contributions.  “While […]

White-nose syndrome came to Maine at the start of the decade. Its effect on the bat population has been stark since then.  Since its initial appearance in New York in 2006, WNS has spread to 33 states and seven Canadian provinces. It first arrived in Maine in about 2010 or 2011, said Shevenell Webb, a […]

Midcoast Humane is preparing for its 14th annual 5K run and one-mile walk fundraiser, “Save a Stray 5K,” which takes place on Saturday, Aug. 24 at L.L.Bean’s Discovery Park in Freeport.   The Save a Stray 5K & Festival raises money to benefit the 3,500 stray, surrendered and neglected animals that enter Midcoast Humane’s doors each year. Proceeds help provide […]

BRUNSWICK — People often are surprised when Emily Bruce tells them she works with homeless children and teens in Brunswick and surrounding areas. As a relatively affluent coastal community, she said people from other areas don’t expect there to be a large number of homeless children (or adults for that matter) in town. But with […]

TOPSHAM — The new Mt. Ararat High School is 51 percent complete, and on still target to open in fall 2020.  The building’s major pieces of electrical and mechanical equipment are starting to be interconnected and tested, School Administrative District 75 Superintendent Shawn Chabot said July 18. Parking lots, lighting, drainage and new utilities are under construction, […]