Commentary
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Bean grease in my hair and Grammie's spring tonics
By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Feb 16After a long winter largely cooped up in the little farmhouse heated with woodstoves, my long hair would show the effects of the dry inside air ...
Haskell's Hot Stove
How good is your school's basketball starting lineup experience?
By Mark Haskell - Feb 09I have always been a huge fan of the hoopla that goes with the announcing of the starting lineups at high school varsity basketball games. For ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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How many islands are too many?
By Philip Conkling - Feb 16Andy Warhol famously predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for15 minutes, but now that the future has arrived, it is more like 15 ...
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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: ...
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 ...
Features
Psssst…hey you! Those flowers are speaking to you
By Lynette Walther - Feb 18Roses are red and violets are blue… and with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it’s a sure bet that a whole lot of roses, and perhaps some ...
Technical schools offer a leg up in college, job market
By Tanya Mitchell - Feb 16Searsport District High School senior Arthur Leighton says he knows what he wants to do after he graduates from high school because of the classes ...
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Smoking Chubs
By Rick Cronin - Feb 15A few years ago I visited the Sheepscot fish hatchery and they were kind enough to give me a fish poster. On the top was written, "Know What You ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Reverend Jason Mariner — a 'minister of force'
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Feb 16Jason Mariner was born Nov. 14, 1824 in Lincolnville. He was the next to the youngest son of Deacon Joseph and Abigail (Heal) Mariner. Jason had ...
A historic downtown building retrofit for the future
By Ethan Andrews - Feb 16When the members of the Improved Order of Odd Fellows moved their fraternal organization to a new building on Main Street in 1888, they probably ...
Long dormant, Lincolnville Center may have turned a corner
By Ethan Andrews - Feb 09In describing Lincolnville Center, locals often point to things that used to be, but now are gone: the empty lot where the post office used to be, ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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. ...
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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