• Weeds
    August 25

    Turns out that wood sorrel mixed with domestic sorrel makes a spectacularly snappy sorrel soup.

  • I Am Because You Are
    August 25

    This book is mainly the 15-year history of the Ubuntu Education Fund, from the most minimal beginnings—supplying chalk to classrooms—to building computer centers and libraries in township schools and creating training programs for health workers.

  • USNS Washington Chambers photographed from a helicopter
    August 6

    Flying at 90 miles per hour, we leaned out the door from our strap-in chairs and clicked pictures left and right…

    Media

  • Chebeague Island
    August 4

    The Maine Coastal Program, part of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, announced on Aug. 4 that it has awarded nearly $250,000 to 11 municipal and county projects. The funds will provide support for the coastal economy through projects that increase public access to the coast, support shellfish harvesting, identify pollution sources that result in coastal beach closures, revitalize coastal downtowns and identify key island transportation assets at risk from rising sea levels.

  • Islesford skyline
    August 3

    The state's Maine Coastal Program has awarded nine communities a total of $163,206 in grants covering planning, design and engineering work for a host of improvement projects, some conceptual, some ready to be built.

  • Burnt Coat Harbor Light
    July 29

    Ratepayers in the Swan's Island Electric Cooperative voted to authorize the coop's board to further investigate merging with or being acquired by Emera Maine, the utility that provides electricity for much of eastern and northern Maine.

    Media, Energy

  • Checking the munitions.
    July 23

    The Washington Chambers, which I am sailing with this summer, probably carries more explosive on board than the entire battle group she services.

    Media

  • Poet Elizabeth Bishop on North Haven.
    July 20

    Bishop’s journal is a kind of daybook, a place to record the names of wild flowers, birds, recipes, the comings and goings of a neighbor’s dog...

  • Destiny by Carl Howe Hansen
    July 20

    There’s an adrenaline rush to the whole thing, with its chilling scenario of technology and science run amok…

    Media