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A Bird’s Tale

Repairing Bird Populations Impacted by the World’s Largest Oil Spill

In April of 2010, the unthinkable happened. An oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana exploded. The operation, called Deepwater Horizon and operated by international corporate...
‘we pledge to make right the master of might’

American Legion celebrates 104th Birthday March 15

Milton J. Foreman was a distinguished general, a WW I hero and a founder of The American Legion. In 1921, Foreman provided a roadmap for service and national unity in an Armistice address at the...
Letter to the editor

Maine’s laws and ordinances will not protect us from current mining threats

Canadian company Exiro Minerals recently acquired the right to explore property in a residential area of Warren for heavy metals and, after acquiring those rights, met last month with the Select...
Bill Packard Commentary

Chapter 2: The lobster gig was good

The lobster gig was good, but I wanted to haul trailers. My license would only let me drive a straight truck and there were no truck driving schools back then. I had met an owner operator who hauled...
letter to the editor

With wave of tax assessment revaluations, are we getting a fair deal?

Recently the assessors for Rockland, Camden and Rockport proposed revaluations for all three towns. This is despite the fact that Camden, for example, has had “statistical updates” by KRT Appraisal...
Woodcock in the Snow

Last Friday, a friend told us that he had heard his first American woodcock of the year the night before. Woodcock are birds that are more often heard then seen, at least by most people. Those who...
Downward spiral with Camden postal service culminated with abrupt closure

I was happy to see news reporting on the Camden Post Office where I have been renting a box for years. One reason for keeping a box in Camden is because of chronic mail box bashing in rural areas. I...
Letter to the editor

Rockland City Council, please hire Andrew Campanelli

If you were going to have a liver transplant would you want a surgeon who had performed this type of surgery only once in his/her career?Wouldn’t you want a surgeon who has been doing three of these...
Opinion: ‘We did it ourselves’

Why Waldo County citizens support community-owned broadband, and wish the state would support it more

Most people in our rural area favor competition as the best method of ensuring fair prices and high levels of service, so it took some time for many of us to come around to the idea of “community-...
“we are small, but we continue to do good things”

The State of Volunteerism at the Rockland Kiwanis Club

The COVID-19 pandemic, along with retirements, took a toll in many areas of our society. One of those was membership in service clubs that had volunteerism as its foundation. Our number of members...
letter to the editor

Investments in clean ferries will power local Maine economies

The recent announcement that the Maine Department of Transportation will receive $33 million in funding to support and modernize ferry service in our state is good news for local economies as well as...
A Bird’s Tale

The Original Winter Surfers

A recent Maine-based magazine ran a feature about winter surfing in Maine. That article was highlighting people who enjoy the thrill of grabbing their boards and catching waves in the middle of ...