Commentary
'How was work today, dear?'
By Eva Murray - Feb 03What am I doing in Stonington with a… minivan? I was off to visit the Isle au Haut school because that is the sort of thing I get to do for ...
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eBay as indicator of public interest in scientists
By Tom McCutchan - Feb 02I studied at Yale University for four years and during that time I met a number people who were to become famous, at least in the scientific ...
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 ...
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 ...
The golden years
By Ron M. Horvath - Jan 22“Did you know that a month’s supply of ‘Depends’ costs $300?” The question came at me out of the dark of a winter’s walk at dawn last February ...
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...
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 ...
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Shopping
By Paul Putnam - Jan 28I’ve mentioned before that local Downeast communities were pretty self-sufficient before World War II, but human nature being as it is, there were ...
Restore America's greatness
By Tom Putnam - Jan 27What do our politicians mean? Are we talking about our greatness following the Revolutionary or Civil Wars, or Martin Luther King? Or, are we ...
CWD: Mad Cow Disease in deer?
By Tom McCutchan - Jan 26If you’ve ever heard the word “prion,” it was probably in reports about Mad Cow Disease during the 1990s. Mad Cow Disease was caused by a type of ...
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
Weathering the weather
By Chris Wolf - Feb 09A spring-like day followed by two days of snow and freezing temperatures. Then magically it’s in the 40s again. What’s up with the weather? Ken ...
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 ...
Coach Maz, a Giant defense
By Chris Wolf - Feb 04Ed Mazurek, of Rockland, taught social studies and coached football at Rockland District High School before retiring and entering into politics. ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Wandering with Wolffie: Bright and motivated learning at URock
By Chris Wolf - Jan 19Things to do in 2012: Buy a new car, fix the roof, get a new lawn mower.... Oh my God, I forgot to graduate from college. Six hundred students ...
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. ...
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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, ...
No bodies, just background
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 04People are saying that all things today are much worse than ever before, but good things have happened. You just have to look a little harder to ...
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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Contradancing: A real social network
By Steve Cartwright - Jan 27When we come together to contradance in the rickety old wooden hall with its beast of woodstove and “two-holer” outhouse, we are an extended ...
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That special corner of the woods
By Jenna Lookner - Jan 26It’s winter again and while the mist lingering over the field behind my house and endless muddy paw prints beg to differ, the calendar insists ...
Lessons learned
By John Christie - Jan 19It's impossible to count the number of times in my life that I've been struck with the realization that virtually all of the decisions I've made ...
Meditations on gulls
By Kristen Lindquist - Jan 12In a high school writing class years ago, I wrote a compare-and-contrast essay on how to tell apart different species of Maine gulls. Even then, I ...
Prose & Poetry
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LiveCell
By Eric Green - Jan 21This is the fourth installment of the thriller "LiveCell," written by Belfast author Eric Green. Find the previous installments on VillageSoup.com ...
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