Commentary
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What makes successful presidents?
By Lloyd V. Stover - Feb 04It is amazing that after several centuries the United States has elected so few outstanding presidents. You can almost count them on one hand: ...
Down t' Home
I need two more dogs
By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Feb 02With this open winter and no snow banking the house, the furnace seems to kick in non-stop. I use wood in the fall ‘til the snow and/or ice coat ...
Never say no to an island
By Philip Conkling - Jan 26Islanders, no matter how competitive they may be in their fishing territories on the water, love hearing stories from other islanders. No one but ...
Part I
Energy: Timber, coal, oil and wind
By Philp Conkling - Jan 12Governor Paul LePage has pointed out, quite correctly, that Maine is the most oil-dependent state in the country for winter heat. Hawaii is ...
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The need to produce more pneumonia vaccine
By Tom McCutchan - Jan 05Could a deadly pandemic like the Spanish flu of 1918 catch us unprepared? The 1918 flu killed tens of millions of people in less than a year, and ...
The island wilderness myth
By Philip Conkling - Feb 02The first Maine island I ever visited was a dream come true. A lobsterman dropped me on a beautiful rugged island off the Washington County ...
Please pass the salt
By Louisa Enright - Jan 28If you were to make me choose between sugar and salt, I’d choose salt every time. I’m almost always the first one at the table to say “please pass ...
Bioterrorism: One flu over the New York Times
By Tom McCutchan - Jan 19I've suffered through many catastrophes in my life. Only a few of them actually happened. — Mark Twain There have been numerous reports in news ...
Keys to successful biotechnology: Good science isn’t enough
By Tom McCutchan - Jan 12The world-renowned Jackson Laboratories In Bar Harbor, should, by all rights, have failed within its first few years. Although it had the financial...
Features
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Remembering an old growth cedar stand
By Ron Joseph - Feb 05“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, ...
Tracking our summer birds south
By Kristen Lindquist - Feb 03Remember that unusual raft of 600-plus coots that hung out on Chickawaukie Lake into early January, dwindling down to two, then none, as the lake ...
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I would live in my parent’s basement. If they did.
By Erin Domareki - Feb 02I slept in my parent’s bed until I left for college. I didn’t sleep there every night, and it’s not as though I wandered wearing extra-large ...
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Three dirty little words
By Erin Domareki - Jan 26The snow will soon blow into town with a vengeance. With it comes many unwelcome three-word combinations, like shovel the walk, scrape the ...
Joe Pye Weed: It’s for the birds (and bees, and butterflies)
By Jean English - Jan 21Looking to make a splash in the flower border or perennial garden? Consider planting a mass of the native perennial Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium ...
Vermicomposting: Winter project prepares for spring planting
By Jean English - Feb 04Tired of trekking out to the compost bin in winter? Consider vermicomposting. Vermicomposts, according to the Soil Ecology Laboratory at the Ohio ...
One year in, shipyard shows no signs of slowing down
By Ethan Andrews - Feb 02A visitor to the newest and largest building at Front Street Shipyard recently likened it to something out of NASA. And given the organization of ...
Colorful vibes: Get your orange on
By Lynette Walther - Jan 28For many years it was the Rodney Dangerfield of colors — just didn’t get no respect. But it looks as if the tide has turned for this color, and ...
Tensions build as tank moratorium vote draws near
By Tanya Mitchell - Jan 26Over the past year residents have debated the merits and downsides of allowing construction of a 22.7-million-gallon liquefied petroleum gas ...
Dawn redwood: A tree for the new year
By Jean English - Jan 07The new year is a good time to think about planting an old tree – one so old that it was virtually unknown until fossils of it were found in 1941. ...
Analysis
Community braces for arrival of bath salts
By Tanya Mitchell - Feb 02Tim Woitowitz has seen many things in the five years since he launched the youth support group Making Change.But he's never experienced anything ...
Prose & Poetry
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LiveCell
By Eric Green - Feb 04This is the sixth installment of the thriller LiveCell, written by Belfast author Eric Green. You can find the previous installments on villagesoup...
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