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 …

Twenty four years ago, almost to the day, I met a girl. It was a set-up. I was in my late 20s, and had settled into a career that suited me. I had an apartment In the South End of Rockland…

Can a  partisan guy attend a  partisan event and report out a nonpartisan synopsis?…

There are few better places to be on a torridly hot summer day than the cool ocean waters off the Maine coast. That’s where we found ourselves a few weeks ago…

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

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 plunging down…

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 from our porch…

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 oysters. Even…

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 lured into…

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…