An older gentleman we knew in years past who has since passed away had a, let’s just say “unique” way to remember the name of the ibis. He was a former French…
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Joe's Journal
Ms. Pigette told me she does not know who will win the House or the Senate. “That question is way above my pay grade,” said the smiling statue holding up a mailbox on Route 27 on the way off the…
Garden Club of Wiscasset
The Garden Club of Wiscasset will have its next meeting on Nov. 5 at First Congregational Church (fellowship hall), 28 High St.
There is a brief business meeting at 12:30 p.m. …
A Bird's Tale
Envision birds migrating, let’s say hundreds or even a thousand feet overhead (some birds fly even higher). To us, they’d look like specks in the sky, if we could…
A Bird's Tale
Fall bird migration has been underway since July. That’s when short-billed dowitchers, lesser yellowlegs and other shorebirds that breed in the Boreal Forest bogs…
Where It's At
Boothbay Harbor friends and fans of Maine’s Blue Collar Author Jerry Farnham were at Brady’s for their copies of the conclusion of the “Red At Night” series.
Entitled, appropriately enough…
October is Cybersecurity Awareness…
A Bird's Tale
When you hear the word “Arctic,” what comes to mind?
Is it ice and snow and rocks? Is it polar bears and vast stretches of whiteness?
…
A Bird's Tale
Countless times, we’ve driven past the big, white farmhouse next to the long, red milking barn in the center of our favorite local grassland. But a few days ago, we…
Joe's Journal
This is a note to the suits who quarterback Maine Health.
I know I have been a pain in the tush as I opposed, and will continue to oppose, your decision to close the Miles L & D unit.…
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Students across Maine are back in school, and the fall season is now in full swing for many students, parents and teachers.
One of my top priorities during this…
Community of Hope
"In the 1970s and '80s, Mainers…
A Bird's Tale
Mainers used to love to go on about how short the summers were here.
Not any more.
Climate change has elongated…
WHERE IT'S AT
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.”…
A Bird's Tale
In this age of artificial intelligence, satellite tagging technology, automated sound recorders, genetic analyses, and countless other sophisticated science tools,…
A Bird's Tale
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…
A Bird's Tale
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…
A Bird's Tale
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…
