Mainers used to love to go on about how short the summers were here.

Not any more.

Climate change has elongated…

I have known Zach Schmesser and his family for eight years. Our children play together and attend the same public school. Over those years I have had the…

One of the bedrock principles in the U.S. Constitution is the balance of power among the three branches of government: Legislative, executive and judicial. The goal of its writers was…

In response to Catherine Cooper’s letter about…

I am supporting Chip Curry for reelection to the Maine State Senate. Chip understands that we need to prepare for the climate impacts we can no longer prevent while doing everything we…

LINCOLNVILLE — If you’ve noticed an excavator, equipment, and activity in the parking lot of the Lincolnville Community Library recently, you may have wondered what…

Knox County Girl Scouts Sister Troops 1451 and 191 proudly bridged 17 of their 28 members on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at the…

In 2022, when we were door-knocking for Get Out the Vote in the final days leading up to the election, an unenrolled voter told us she rarely voted, and almost never for Democrats, but that…

Thirty years of pulling in over $100,000 a year personally, and receiving millions from billionaire friends for her reelection campaigns, has made Susan forget the people of Maine. …

I live in an island community. I am so impressed that Chip Curry has been out to talk with us on many occasions. He really listens to his constituents and works hard…

It is the time of year when most of Maine's lakes and ponds are at their yearly low water level and it seems like just about every year at this time someone tells me they fear that Megunticook…

I remember my Mom telling me that she remembers exactly where she was when Kennedy was assassinated. A historical tragedy that happened long ago, that I had learned about in school, but my…

The creative team of author and poet Susan Schadler and artists Lynne and John M.T. Seitzer recently released “Growing Wild: Four seasons of New England and Native Plants and Their Creatures.”…

To those who did not attend the Hope Select Board Meeting Sept 9, the agenda item concerning FY taxes revealed a very significant error in determining the property tax…

Senator Collins depicts herself as a moderate Republican. Analysis does not bear that out.…

In this age of artificial intelligence, satellite tagging technology, automated sound recorders, genetic analyses, and countless other sophisticated science tools,…

Knox County Girl Scouts Sister Troops 1451 and 191 went for a few adventures this summer! Troops planned each day carefully, thinking about their budgets, their…

I am not working tomorrow. As a self-employed small business owner, this is not an easy decision. While I have never regretted my choice to strike out on my own on September 1, 2014, the…

The University of Maine System has now grown enrollment for nine consecutive semesters and achieved its highest headcount in more than a decade,…

We stumbled upon a surprising concentration of shorebirds a few days ago. If you’ve ever driven down Interstate 295 to Portland, you have driven over the Royal…

KNOX COUNTY —  With school buses, young…

Bobby Charles will put Maine families, Maine workers and Maine communities first—not Augusta insiders, not special interests, and not political fashion.

Bobby Charles…

There was once a young man who had just obtained his driver’s license. He had already acquired his own car, a 1956 Volkswagen, and the 15-year-old was told by his parents that the furthest…

'What fresh hell is this' is an expression attributed to Dorothy Parker whenever she heard the doorbell or the telephone. These days a similar…

I am an unenrolled voter with no party affiliation. I do not ascribe to the Vote Blue No Matter Who admonishment as being the solution to…

I am writing in support of Shawn Saindon who is running for State Representative as an Independent to represent House District 44, serving the towns of Hope, Union, and Warren.

I wrote a letter to the editor two years ago when Mike Ray first ran for the State House, he won, and he proved my faith in him. The work he did in preparation and the work he did in his committee…

G. K. Chesterton wrote: "the poor sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed …

We made our migration back from North Carolina last week after an enjoyable but brutally hot, humid time there as we  recounted in last week’s…

Thirty-three years ago, I packed up most of my clothes, a few posters, my CD collection, and a new Lego set into the family’s white Nissan minivan for the trip south. Goodbye to Lincolnville…

A Timely Conversation About Returning to the Earth

In an age of mounting environmental concerns and disconnection from natural cycles, Midcoast Maine Green Burial sponsors the following…

Like early migrating birds, we have recently made a trek south from Maine to North Carolina. It’s not the time of year when most Mainers head south—not when temperatures have regularly been in the…

I am writing to thank Hannah Pingree and her daughter for coming to the Maine Lobster Festival this year.  I was King Neptune at the Lobster Festival and Hannah who is the democratic…

I went on a date with my wife yesterday. The Saturday morning chores were mostly done. I’d tackled the bathrooms and vacuuming and taken the trash and recycling to the transfer station. She…

This summer the Town of Northport hosted two fundraisers to benefit its capital campaign for a new Community Center, Town Office, and Fire Station. The events represent the first fruits of a…

As summer draws to a close, families across Maine are wrapping up their seasonal activities and vacations while preparing for the start of a new school year. As students return to the classroom,…

Why are we Lincolnville?

This isn’t a philosophical question; really, who was this Lincoln? It really isn’t much of a mystery, but not something that I ever recall being…

Chip Curry epitomizes the axiom “Think Globally, Act Locally.” He knows that issues of education, emergency services, housing are relevant and important throughout our country, and,…

The “review.” It’s how we decide whether to watch a movie or show, dine at a new restaurant, even hike a trail we’ve never taken before.

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Rockport residents could be forgiven for hardly ever giving Cross Street a thought.

Maybe you’ve used the street to go to and from the schools on Route 90 or maybe you…

Sunday’s tragic fatal crash at the intersection of Camden Road (Route 90) and Western Road in Warren has deeply affected…

“65 years ago today. Dad opened Western Auto in Camden.” This was the first social media post that I saw yesterday morning. August 1, 1961. Well before my time, the store opened at the…

We hate to be the ones to say this, but could you think of a bird name that’s more boring than this: broad-winged hawk? What does the non-birder imagine when they…

As our current elected officials foster immoral acts, engage in and promote violence against those in opposition, are blatantly corrupt, impulsively start foreign wars and admire…

On July 23, the MaineHealth/Lincoln Hospital Board voted to close Miles Hospital's Labor and Delivery unit. The vote now moves to the regional board, and then the MaineHealth Board…

As a local stonemason, I have had the privilege of working on multiple projects for the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. The first was leading Phase I of the historic …