1. The Weather – How can you not love the weather of September in Maine? Mornings start crisp and fresh with dew on the grass as you watch for warblers in the shrubbery. By afternoon, you’re…
Talk
Letters: more than 1 in 10 adults in Maine struggle with basic reading, writing, and math skills
From September 15–19, the nation will observe Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, a time dedicated to raising awareness about the critical importance of literacy in helping individuals,…
My older brother Bill recently moved back to town. He retired from his career as a high school math teacher, purchased a little place up on Masalin Road, and plans to offer tutoring for…
Letters: from Winthrop, Augusta, Woolwich, they called camp home each summer
ROME, Maine — This year, Pine Tree Camp celebrates its significant 80th anniversary milestone. Founded on the heels of the Great…
A Bird's Tale
There are certain birds that really capture the imagination. One of those, for us, and perhaps for many other birders, is the American golden-plover.
The…
It was a blessedly damp Sunday morning. The rain was so very welcome after an extremely dry spell.
I love a rainy weekend morning. The weekend chores…
letter to the editor
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife. — John Dewey
I am not focusing on the different political choices we…
letters
On Friday August 8, 2025, the Camden High School (CHS) Alumni Association held its 119th Annual Alumni Banquet at the Elks…
Coastal Recovery Community Center (CRCC), along with Knox County Treatment Court, sponsored a fun afternoon of grilling and conversation on the lawn of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Rockland.…
A Bird's Tale
We saw a photo of a gorgeous juvenile buff-breasted sandpiper taken a few days ago down on the rocky beach at the Timber Point section of Rachel Carson National…
opinion
Most of us who have engaged in foreign relations activities over the past several decades focus on the “hard power” aspects of international affairs. Hard power includes the…
On Saturday, August 30, from 10 to 11 a.m., approximately 80 demonstrators gathered in Port Clyde near the summer home of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, according to…
letter to the editor
At an August 26 event celebrating the end of the long and tortuous Main Street construction in Searsport, Sen. Susan Collins was repeatedly interrupted by protesters who were critical of her votes…
Trigger warning, as this column contains descriptions, sanitized, of life on a small family farm, and the steps that sometimes need to be taken to preserve the livestock…
As some members of the town’s…
A Bird's Tale
Over the weekend, we traveled to southern Maine to see if we could observe the drama of heavy surf expected from the passing of Hurricane Erin far offshore. We spent a…
Your town’s elected budget committee is trying something new this year. In the past we have always helped the Select Board produce the town budget during the late winter and early spring. What we…
letter to the editor
I write to again thank the citizens of Owls Head for including the Owls Head Village Library in the FY 2026 budget warrant. These funds help us continue to be…
Poem: ~in gratitude to journalists in Palestine*
Words, those tangled things that bind us,
surround our lives like morning fog.
Even now, when the sides of buildings
are dangling
their bombed out…
For a guy who rarely leaves the Rockland to Belfast circle of the Midcoast, I have traveled a fair bit this year. This weekend finds me in Brooklyn, N.Y., for a family wedding. As the aunt…
Commentary
When The Waldo’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the Tony and Drama Desk award winning musical comedy, opens on Sept 5, two things will be quickly…
Heard from Port Clyde to Eastport: 'Never seen them this thick'
This year, the Gulf…
Opinion: A community center will give Northport residents a sense of place
What is so special about Northport, Maine? Some people may think that Northport is just a wide spot in the road between Belfast and Camden. They speed by at…
A Bird's Tale
When we first started birding in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the sight of a merlin was a special treat. These small, dark falcons had just begun to bounce back…
letter to the editor: 'As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport'
In a small tragedy amid the broader carnage of the Israel/Gaza War Suleiman al-Obeid — the best known Palestinian soccer player — was killed by an Israeli tank…
letter to the editor
Throughout his 20 years as a state…
I went for a little walk Saturday. Parking at the trailhead at Stephen’s Corner, Youngtown and Beach Road, I hoisted a backpack with a large bottle of water and a midday snack, put in my…
letter to the editor
Just last weekend a terrible and shameful thing happened in Montville. Close to 40 headstones in the Hallandale Cemetery were vandalized.
…
letter to the editor
To the Lincolnville Community:
On Tuesay, August 5, at the Special Town Meeting, the voters approved the authority for the town to raise the entire amount needed to fund for the school…
Time seems to be moving faster than it used to. We approach mid-August. The days are still warm, but as sunset approaches, earlier every day, one may reach for the sweatshirt. Evenings are…
letter to the editor
Gaza is not only a moral issue--intentional starvation of an entire people, children the first to suffer and die, but everyone else in Gaza will follow. Doctors are unable to care for patients not…
A Bird's Tale
As we slide into August, the bird soundscape here in Maine undergoes a major change compared to May and June when the morning chorus of bird songs can seem deafening.…
So there has been some chatter around Lincolnville recently. On the social medias, on the Lincolnville Bulletin Board, about town. People are not getting their mail as expected.
…
letter to the editor
Will the Camden Select Board be able to keep its promise that none of our property taxes will be used to remove Montgomery Dam and Spillway?
According to the wording of Article 7 that was…
A Bird's Tale
What do Baffin Island, South Florida, and Downeast Maine have in common?
One thing they have in common, as we write this column, are two birds of different…
letter to the editor
This past Friday, nearly in despair about the starvation spreading throughout Gaza, and outraged by the endless, childish finger-pointing, always blaming other countries and organizations…
letter to the editor
Republican politicians in Washington are touting middle class tax cuts as a key feature of “The Big Beautiful Bill”. While I don’t deny the existence of a “middle class” tax cut in this bill (…
It has been a lovely weekend. I spent the bulk of it reading.
In between running to the dump and grocery store, and driving children to and from work and friends’ houses…
It was a cool night for a hot event at Ash Point Estate in Owl’s Head, where the community gathered to raise funds for Trekkers, one of the most beloved nonprofit…
Commentary
As he does every August, Maine comedian Bob Marley is headed to the Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. He has two shows set for Saturday, Aug. 9, 5:30 and 8 p.m. The later show has only single seats…
A Bird's Tale
As we wrote last week, one of the five best things about summer birding in Maine is the interesting…
I have written before about Lincolnville’s agrarian past.
Subsistence farming is generally the best we have done. There is a reason we lost so much of our population in…
analysis
Federal rebates on new and used electric vehicles will now expire at the end of September
When shopping for a car, one rule of thumb is to time your purchase so…
A Bird's Tale
Some people think midsummer birding is boring.
Wow, are they wrong.
As we can personally attest, here's five reasons why you should go birding in July.…
letter to the editor
We have just celebrated the 249th Anniversary of the founding document of our nation — the Declaration of Independence. I have a direct family link to the…
letter to the editor
I watched the predictable ‘drama’ play out in Washington two weeks ago. Senator Collins, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, happily voted “Yes” to advance the “Big…
A Bird's Tale
The first time you clearly hear the long, drawn-out whistled “weet-woo” of an upland sandpiper drifting into your ears across an open grassland or blueberry barren,…
analysis
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of thousands of Mainers woke up to higher electricity bills. Central Maine Power’s …
Organizers of the Grindle Point Light Station Lighthouse Tower Celebration give thanks to all who attended the ribbon cutting.
