If you could make one small shift in your daily routine to help safeguard the home of over 80% of Earth’s life, would you do it? Summer beach season is a perfect time to explore how our household decisions can ripple out to protect creatures we seldom encounter but that play critical roles in our […]
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How to see what’s always there in and on Maine land
Each summer, when I was a boy, we would drive the long, winding series of state roads to Maine to visit my mother’s parents. Auburn residents, they had a small, uninsulated cottage on Martin’s Point in Friendship. And until my father and my grandmother got on each other’s nerves (usually around day four), the tiny […]
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Kayakers take on spectacular Deer Island in New Brunswick
A kayaker approaches Hardwood Island northeast of Deer Island in New Brunswick, Canada. (Ron Chase photo) For the past two years, a group of friends and I have traveled to Campobello Island in New Brunswick for kayaking, biking and hiking adventures in August. After I wrote a couple of columns about our kayaking exploits, a […]
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A sterling service for Tim Ellis, Chewonki’s legendary visionary
When I learned that Tim Ellis had died, I knew I had to attend his memorial service. A legendary leader at Chewonki for several decades, Tim influenced thousands of young people, including members of my own family. Tim Ellis, a Chewonki leader who died in May, was celebrated in a memorial on Aug. 22. (Courtesy […]
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Steel drums, theater classes and new scholarships at the Chocolate Church Arts Center
Pan Fried Steel will perform at the last Bath waterfront concert of the season on Saturday, Aug. 30. (Courtesy of Chocolate Church Arts Center) Before moving to Bath last year, I spent the last 25 years in a rural town. The community had some great traditions around ice fishing, maple syrup and a New Year’s […]
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Tour takes people on a cemetery walk through Bath’s history
A Bath business offers walking tours through Oak Grove Cemetery to tell the stories behind the people buried there.
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Affordable housing, brewery project underway at old Brunswick fire station
Construction has started on a project to convert the 1919 building into a brewery and five affordable housing units.
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Damariscotta Historical Society’s annual silent auction opens Sept. 2
Some items available to bid on during the Damariscotta Historical Society’s silent auction from Sept. 2-12. (Lisa Hagen photo) The Damariscotta Historical Society will hold its annual silent auction event from Sept. 2-12 to raise funds to preserve ancient burial grounds in Damariscotta. The silent auction will open at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Skidompha Library […]
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DAR and Rockland library to host talk on veterans in Tolman Cemetery
The Lady Knox Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Rockland Public Library will present “The Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Patriots of the Tolman Cemetery” with archivist Mary Kelly at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4. The cover of “Fight for Freedom, Fighting for Survival,” which will be the basis of a […]
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Gardiner artist’s solo show opens at River Arts in Damariscotta
River Arts is showing the artwork of Kate Buehner in a solo show, “Activation of Shapes, Color and Design,” from Aug. 28 through Sept. 27 in the River Room. A meet-the-artist opening reception is from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at the gallery. A piece by artist Kate Buehner, a Gardiner resident whose solo exhibition […]
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