Hoax threats disrupt school, waste law enforcement resources, and put first responders in unnecessary danger while causing emotional…

There are so many ways we can be of service to our community and country – being a good neighbor, donating to charities, providing steady jobs to those who need them, and participating in local…

I get together with a group for coffee and most of us are around the same age.  We discuss politics, local, state and national and the weather and news,…

Conversations around recent court decisions regarding Roe v. Wade often focus on political agendas. But the effects of these decisions also have enormous economic and social justice impact. For…

I recently attended a school board meeting at MSAD 40 where approximately 300 people were in attendance to either give or listen to arguments for and against the book Gender Queer…

Are you aware that four gun-related courses were scheduled through the Adult Education Program to be held this fall at Camden Regional High School? Neither was I until I saw them…

If you’re reading this, I’m back.  I don’t have the final say on what you read in the Pilot.

That pandemic thing was troublesome.…

As the end of my term as your state senator approaches, I’ve spent some time reflecting on the past couple of years and all that we have been through together. When I was sworn into office in…

This October, New Hope Midcoast will join other advocates across the state to recognize Domestic Violence Action Month (DVAM).

For the last 35 years, the goal of Domestic…

We all have a chance to have a say in the Rockport Comprehensive Plan.  The 2004 version is undergoing an update as I write this.  There is one more meeting to take place on September 27 at 6 P.M…

Maine’s Department of Marine Resources Patrick Keliher issued the following summary of the state’s lobster industry, and the various factors bearing down on it this year.

After six years of serving on the Camden Select Board it’s refreshing to be outside of the select board “bubble.” Watching the meetings (and I watch all of them) from afar reminds me of goals that…

One hundred twenty six years ago, on Monday, September 6, 1896, 5,000 people gathered at Oakland Park in Rockport for a Labor Day celebration sponsored by the Knights of Labor and other Midcoast…

The Town of Camden has launched a new, large-scale program of planting shade trees along our residential streets and has budgeted for over 50 trees to be planted this year. Dave St. Laurent and…

We have just had a death in our immediate family, and I find it tiring and debilitating to now respond to some who have attacked me in…

For Phyllis

Here I am old, 80, unstable, faltering

my wife encircles me with her strength

pulls me up

when she does I bury my nose in her pale, white neck…

There was a certain irony in reading …

I spent my childhood on a small farm raising sheep, pigs, and chickens, with two geese that ran the operations, as they do. I tended my own garden and learned to show my sheep in the fair. My bus…

I encourage you to vote for Jason Trundy for Waldo County Sheriff this coming November. Trundy has the right mix of experience, integrity, firmness, and innovation to continue --and add to -- the…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Susan Collins issued this statement following the release of the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health…

AUGUSTA – This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued this statement following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling:

“Today’s…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Angus King, I-Maine, issued the following statement after the Supreme Court issued an opinion overturning Roe v. Wade:

Today’s decision to…

Over my…

On behalf of myself and my company, Cranesport LLC, I would like to say thank you to the Town of Camden for consideration of our project, Camden Tannery Park.

As always, this campaign was a…

It’s been almost a year since I argued in this blog that we should “Keep Camden Directly Democratic.”…

You may have heard in the news recently about the upcoming “Residents’ Day” at Maine State Parks. Gov. Janet Mills has waived day use fees for Maine residents at our parks and historic sites on…

While reading Rapture and Melancholy, the newly published diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay, lightly yet thoughtfully edited by Daniel Mark Epstein and with a foreword by Millay literary…

Should the town of Camden continue to own the Apollo Tannery property along the Megunticook River on Washington Street and keep it for a farmers’ market and park? Or should that property be sold…

To date. It has been an active few months. The Save the Dam Falls Committee was formed in July 2021, when it became obvious that the town government — by which we mean the Camden Select Board and…

The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 marked the beginning of our collective awareness that we face an environmental crisis and that we must fight to protect our planet. Over the next 52 years,…

I would like to say, enough is enough! 
 
Over my 21 years of service to our community I have had the opportunity to work with good people from both Camden and Rockport.  We didn't…

It was two years ago this past weekend that the fear of the coming pandemic manifested itself in the form of Maine’s first documented case of COVID-19. Since then, more than 227,000 people in…

One hundred and three years ago, the American Legion was founded in Paris, France, the “City of Lights,” by a group of committed U.S. veterans of the Great War. It has been a shining light for…

I enjoy serious discussion and once found it in political debate, serious consideration of issues about which there was substantive disagreement. 

Like T.S. Eliot, who declares at the beginning of his great “Dry Salvages” poem that he does “not know very much about Gods,” I do not know very much about trees. But also like Eliot, who…

Winter trees can sometimes look like second homes abandoned for warmer climates during the coldest months. However, they just know more about wintering and taking stock than we do. They are…

In 2002, my husband and I rescued a near-teardown 1850s house in Rocklalnd. Harold Simmons from code enforcement told us that he had thought that he would not live long enough to see one of these…

The film “Rock Around the Clock” debuted 67 years ago, which means that more than three generations since have thrown a hero up the pop charts, to steal a line from Paul Simon. In those early…

Hyundai has done something clever here, and it makes me wonder why these things are still so rare—namely, SUV-based pickups. This is a Tucson, a Hyundai two-row crossover sport-ute, with the rear…

Around the holidays, as advocates, we start getting questions about how the holiday season impacts rates of domestic abuse, or if we see more people reaching out to…

Did you know that the waterfall in Camden harbor has become a major tourist attraction? At least a few people think so. They’re upset because the Select Board is considering a recommendation to…