BROOKSVILLE, Maine — Women survivors of domestic abuse gathered July 11 on the Blue Hill Peninsula from across Maine for a daylong …

It is really easy for those of us from Maine, and those of us who have lived here fulltime for a number of years, to forget just what a tiny place our state is, at least in the number of…

Some of you may know of our sometimes obsession with bird names. We’ve written before on topics that fit that bill, including the question about…

Yes, elections have consequences. One of the places Camden finds itself as a result of the June election is at the start of a new path, one of possibilities not imagined by the last…

Terns eat fish. We all know that (don’t we?). Many’s the time we have watched these graceful, long-winged birds hovering over the ocean surface before…

Elections have consequences.

That phrase is often treated as political, depending on who says it and who hears it, but…

Yesterday we celebrated the Fourth of July, and the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The birthday of the United States.

For the eighth…

Over the weekend of June 27, our Maine neighbor Dhavalkumar Patel was taken from his place of occupation while working. Mr. Patel is the owner of a grocery store and small restaurant in…

We are fortunate to have a very leafy green neighborhood. Maples, ash, ornamental crabapples, the occasion red oak, a few black locust—the sightline…

It was around 25 years ago that we built the sauna.

Backyard saunas are an odd feature of Midcoast Maine, surprisingly common due to a long ago influx of Scandinavian…

Oystercatcher. It’s an evocative name. Even if you didn’t know that it refers to a bird, you would probably imagine some living thing that catches…

This home where I grew up and continue to live is old. Not by any stretch among the oldest in this little town, and far from the finest, the most opulent. Just an old farmhouse and barn,…

A few nights ago, we took our little black dog Loki, out for a last chance to answer “nature’s calling” before we retired for the evening. We had been…

Someone recently commented to me that Camden feels more like Camden, Incorporated rather than Camden, “where the mountains meet the sea.”

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I would like to thank the students and their teachers from Troy Howard’s Eighth Grade Class for their  beautiful and timely art work…

My family was deeply worried to hear about the potential closure of the birthing center at MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital…

What a beautiful week we have had in this little town on the coast of Maine. Bright sun, a bit of rain, fog rolling in off the bay in the morning, everything green and growing. Our summer…

There’s no doubt that we birders find a thrill in seeing rare birds—birds from somewhere else that make their way to wherever we are (in our case,…

It was quite a week in the household at Sleepy Hollow. Our daughter’s graduation from Camden Hills Regional High School was a multiple day affair, starting with the baccalaureate on Monday,…

The New York Times June 4 Glueck/Lerer last-minute…

As they head to the polls next week, Rockport residents hold in their hands the opportunity to transform their town.

First, they have the opportunity to arrest the…

NORTHEAST HARBOR — Since 2006, island writers and artists have come together to share their work in The Island Reader, …

We wish we had been able to get a photograph of it to show you.

The first crop of baby American robins were out of the nest…

Over the last few days, in reading about issues Graham Platner brought to the first couple of years of his marriage, something felt immediately familiar to me —…

As Camden voters prepare to elect two Select Board members, I hope they will consider not only the candidates’ positions on individual issues, but also the character, judgment, and values…

Cayla Miller is running to represent the towns of Brooks, Frankfort, Jackson, Knox, Monroe, Swanville, Thorndike, Unity, and Waldo in the Maine House. I know that she will advocate strongly…

Geoff worked for me at Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in the 1990s for seven years as part of my senior management team. He did an excellent job as Marketing Director …

I’m writing in support of Madison Cook for Maine State Representative. I’ve known Madison since her high school days when our families shared carpools. We’ve followed Madison’s education in…

The Rockport  Opera House is noncompliant with The Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (ADA).  I will not go into the many deficiencies of the Opera House. I urge the Town…

THOMASTON — The Town of Thomaston is pleased to officially welcome Starbucks to the community following a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of the new location. 

Town…

It catches me off guard every year. The rapidity in which the barren landscape of Maine in Spring explodes, seemingly overnight, into an absolute riot of green, of flowers, and well, of…

My name is Terry Abrams, and I am a candidate for the Rockport Budget Committee in the June 9 election.

While I am a relatively new full-time resident of Rockport…

If I am reading correctly, the $1.8 billion set aside for Jan. 6 rioters will be spent by giving them a payout. I wrote to Susan Collins asking where  she stood on the issue and what…

As an older voter, I am supporting the election of Madison Cook for Maine State House District 39 (Belfast, Belmont, and Northport). Our retiring Representative, Jan Dodge, leaves shoes that…

It is critical that Camden’s voters turn out on Tuesday, June 9, to vote in the contest to fill two seats on the Select Board. 

On June 9, the Residents and Taxpayers of Camden face important decisions about the future of their community. At its heart is a simple choice: Do you want to be an owner, or a…

To all the voters in Camden and Rockport:  this endorsement comes from up in Lincolnville. But it’s as heartfelt and…

We are at a crossroads with our town government. Should we retain our local Camden Police Department with a full-time Chief? I say definitely yes. I do not want to cede control and…

Birds that are great at soaring often seem to do so into, what is for them, uncharted territory, especially in spring when they can ride warm,…

The best thing about being self employed is that you get to make your own hours. You decide when you work, no need to ask permission to take time off, to wait for approval. The part no one…

When Rockport residents head to the polls in a few weeks they will find an opportunity there to potentially transform their town.