Columns

Rockland can do more to support reintegrating former ...

By Steve Merriam - Jul 20
I attended the City Council meeting June 24, my first, since my wife, Kathy, and I just moved to Rockland from a large city (my family has lived ...
A smile or a tail wag; it’s your choice!

By Benny Huckleberry as ... - Jul 19
Lately I've been thinking a lot about communication, especially among humans. Based on my human, her human friends, and all the news that I hear ...
Lupine, stately aristocrat of the early summer garden

By Tom Seymour - Jul 19
The colorful spires of wild lupine, Lupinus perennis, enliven gardens, fields and roadsides. For many, blooming lupines signal the official start ...
A life in T-shirts

By Kris Ferrazza - Jul 19
It's always a strange feeling when you get to cross something off your bucket list. To date I've been blessed to have managed quite a few. Perhaps ...
Sometimes we don’t need to know everything

By David Grima - Jul 18
The vast Cloud of Unknowing, reported to be an airborne mass of cement powder leaking from a ruptured delivery pipe at the Dragon wharf in the ...
No, we are not safe

By Ken Frederic - Jul 18
Summer has finally arrived along the Midcoast. That brings warm days, pleasant evenings on the deck, visits from grandchildren, gatherings with ...
CMP is eating our lunch

By Susan Reider - Jul 18
When I first read that Central Maine Power was asking for a rate hike again this year, I almost laughed. After all, it bungled the rollout of its ...
Camden Herald Letters to the Editor July 18

Jul 18
Response to Hatchet Cove letters This letter is in response to four recent letters in the Courier-Gazette that claim the Hatchet Cove Farm ...
Prisoner reentry house debate offers lessons all around

By The Courier-Gazette ... - Jul 18
With the benefit of hindsight, it seems all parties involved could have handled the proposal for a transitional house for former prisoners on ...
The Rowers, a poem and remembrance

Jul 18
The poem below was written by part-time Camden resident Patti Marxsen in 2017 after watching Sam and Susan Manning row out together year after ...
Courier-Gazette, Letters to the Editor, July 18

Jul 18
Response to Hatchet Cove letters This letter is in response to four recent letters in the Courier-Gazette that claim the Hatchet Cove Farm ...
Historic Photo - The George B. Wells

Jul 18
Pictured is the bow of the George W. Wells the day of its launch, August 14, 1900.
This is what brave looks like

By Reade Brower - Jul 18
With permission from John Curran and the Lowell (Massachusetts) Sun, we share a piece that originally appeared July 3 in that newspaper and ...
Soy curls Stroganoff

By Wendy Andresen - Jul 17
Last week I introduced you to soy curls, those versatile little bites of meatlike soy protein that you can order online and store in your pantry. ...
‘Pet Sematary’ remade, ‘After’ has college romance

By Tom Von Malder - Jul 13
Pet Sematary (Paramount, Blu-ray or standard DVD, R, 100 min.). Stephen King's original 1983 source novel was one of his creepiest and most ...
No more

By Patrisha McLean - Jul 13
Another day, another local man beats up his wife or girlfriend and gets a pass from the Knox County courts. From a front page article by Stephen ...
The blueberry — a berry to celebrate

By Lynette L. Walther - Jul 12
Ah, the little blueberry — so small in size, but with such a big presence. Blueberries pack a huge nutritional punch. Blueberries are low in fat ...
Stinking hypocrite

By David Grima - Jul 11
Summer! I heard a report of a cicada buzzing June 30, and last weekend at dusk saw a backyard full of fireflies. A few days before that, I saw ...
Are we safe?

By Dale Landrith Sr. - Jul 11
On Monday morning, June 24, I was making an overnight business trip to the northern Adirondack Mountains in New York. The weather was decent and ...
Courier-Gazette Letters to the Editor, July 11

Jul 11
Interns defend Pluecker Farmers Bill Pluecker and Reba Richardson of Hatchet Cove Farm in Warren have built a vibrant farm and community space ...