Saving the Montgomery dam will be a win-win for Camden
By Ken Gross To date. It has been an active few months. The Save the Dam Falls Committee was formed in July 2021, when it became obvious that the town government — by which we mean the Camden Select Board and Town Manager, not the professional staff at the Town Office...
What Is This Weird Device?
One might think it is a device in the Ukraine to block small Russian Navy ships from entering a harbor. But that would be wrong.
Dear Friends: Something Different From Peter Ralston
This week I am sharing something quite different with you. I hope you’ll enjoy this short video from my site. In 2009 I was approached by an independent film company that wanted to make a sixteen-minute documentary short about how I work….
Maine High School Class A Baseball: Camden Hills vs. Edward Little 5/13/22
Watch this Maine Class A High School Baseball Game between the Windjammers of Camden Hills and the Red Eddies of Edward Little. This game was played at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport on May13, 2022.
Maine High School Baseball : Camden Hills vs. Medomak Valley 5/9/2022
Watch this Maine High School Baseball Game between the Camden Hills Windjammers and the Medomak Valley Panthers. This game was played at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport on May 9, 2022.
Countering the culture of convenience
There was once a time that conveniences automatically implied life improvements. Those days are long gone.
Browntail moths returning, but scientists are working to limit their spread
Although there are reasons for optimism, Mainers should be prepared to deal with the pesky insect again this summer.
Commuter airline Cape Air to buy 75 All-Electric Alice Commuter Aircraft
The Eviation Alice is the world’s leading fully electric aircraft, designed to fly 440 nautical miles on a single charge and has maximum cruise speed of 250 knots. Alice will operate in all environments currently serviced by piston and turbine aircraft. This could potentially bring our local aircraft service up a notch.
The BILLION GALLON Reason to Keep All the Megunticook Dams
By Robert Nichols There is a movement by a group of individuals in Camden who want to remove the three lower dams on the Megunticook river in the name of protecting the town from “flooding”. The irony of that movement is that our dams DON’T CAUSE flooding, they work...
Maine Class A High School Baseball : Camden Hills vs. Brunswick 5/2/22
Watch this Maine Class A High School Baseball game between Camden Hills and Brunswick. this game was played at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport on May 2, 2022.
Maine company plans to bring tidal power back to Eastport
The device would be part of a microgrid aimed at bringing backup power to the area’s chain of bridged islands.
Finnish Hobby Horse Dressage
By Glen Birbeck The Finns are an interesting people. They have a language to me as obscure as Chinese or Arabic. One Finn I remember in Ecuador sat while I drew his portrait. We were opposite each other at a table in Charlitos bar and grill. The table was a battlefield...
Meet WRFR’s Stephen Caroll
By Ron Staschak It's great to talk with Stephen Carroll ,a founder of WRFR. Like everything in life, there are many emotions. Starting something is always scary, challenging, and rewarding. I assume that Stephen looks back with pride on his achievements. I am so glad...
1995 Vintage Girls Basketball : Camden-Rockport vs Belfast
Watch this Vintage Girls High School Basketball game between the Windjammers of Camden-Rockport and the Lions of Belfast. This game was played at Camden-Rockport on January 20, 1995. The starters for Coach Jay Carlsen’s Windjammers were Darrah Roberts, Amanda Roberts, Stacey Brown, Teri Berg, and Emily Rogers. The starters for the Belfast Lions were Lisa Bachelder, Sarah Annis, Gwen Russ, Misty Bennett, and Virginia Catlin. The play-by-play announcers were Charlie Crockett and Don Palmer. This game was produced in 1995 by the CRTV Club including the camera crew of Matt Talbot, Sam Price, Patrick Williams, and Brian Wright. The computer graphics person was Jennifer Patterson, and the director was Mrs. Penny Crockett.
Strandbeest Evolution 2021
Strandbeest Evolution 2021 is one of the most original and creative artistic creations in recent times.
Strandbeest means “beach animal” and is the creation of Theo Jansen.
This is a video you must watch!
Away Happens
By Philip Crossman There are only two places, Here, this island off the coast of Maine, and Away. There is a big and obvious difference between those who live Here and those who live Away. There is no less a distinction between those who live Here and who the rest of us...
Dear Friends: A Season with Faith and Ritual
Here’s our December Room With a View column from Down East Magazine.
It’s not especially seasonal, but I don’t think that faith, or any of what Philip writes about in this one, ever really goes fully out of season.
Peter Zeihan on Russia’s Wagner Group and the Ukraine War
Russia’s Wagner Group purports to be a “private security organization” – what you and I might otherwise call mercenaries. Plenty of groups like this exist around the world, but with an emphasis on private.
This Is What Real Leadership Looks Like
At a handshake distance, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walked through the center of Kyiv and talked to ordinary Kyivans. This is what democracy looks like. This is what courage looks like. This is what true friendship...
The Camden Select Board has failed the democracy test
Every member of the Camden Select Board has taken an oath to “faithfully discharge to the best of my abilities, all duties incumbent upon me pursuant to all charters, ordinances, policies and rules and regulations of the Town of Camden of which I have the right and...
Vintage High School Basketball : Season 4 # 4 : Camden Hills Boys vs Maranacook 1/18/ 2002
Watch this Vintage Boys Basketball game from January 18, 2002 between the Windjammers of Camden hills and the Black Bears of Maranacook. The starters for the Windjammers were Tyler Warren, Peter Moro, Grant Lippman, Tim Stammen, and Troy Gabriel. The starters for the Black Bears were Matt St. John. Charlie Calligan, Ben Muniz, Jared Lemieux, and Andy Kenney.
Global Climate Change – Food For THought
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Global climate change is a very complex and important focus of today’s society. For additional insight from one expert’s view, click on Read More. It could be very enlightening!
Try to look away!
By Glen Birbeck I am not myself immune to the urge to jump off the merry go round, the 24/7 news cycle. To turn away from that megaphone's constant blast of war and rumor of war and plague and political drama. I also avoid the celeb gossip which flows from our media in...
Vintage High School Basketball 1993 : Season 4 # 3 Camden-Rockport Girls vs Medomak Valley .
Watch this Vintage High School Girls basketball game between the Windjammers of Camden-Rockport High School and the Panthers of Medomak Valley High School. This game was played at Camden-Rockport High School in Camden in 1993.
The Great Camden flood — of Propaganda
If there is any flooding problem at all surrounding the fate of our beloved Montgomery Dam, it is the tsunami of propaganda spewing from the Camden Select Board and their hand-picked collaborators, in service to their preconceived intentions for the Megunticook River.
Dear Friends: Roommates with a View
Maine’s Down East magazine started in 1954 and from the beginning has offered Room With a View, a column that is revered here in the Pine Tree state.
Some exceptionally fine writers have shared their thoughts in over 700 Room With a View columns and it’s a great honor to share with you the news that my dear friend, Philip Conkling, and I are now the columnists filling some very large shoes. We’re really enjoying being able to – once again – pair our shared “view” of life in Maine and beyond.
In Maine, the time is ripe for food recovery and reducing food waste
Feeding people, not filling landfills, offers untold benefits, but it requires a new mindset.
Rising Water Levels
Standing at the toilet early one recent morning was a little startling. It’s not usually. I’m customarily quite at ease. Anticipating the great relief I am accustomed to experiencing at this time each day I was taken aback briefly and my effort stalled when I realized the water level in the appliance’s basin was advancing toward me at an alarming rate.
‘Forever chemicals’ on farmland are a slow-motion disaster
Maine is at the forefront of a national reckoning about how devastating and costly land application of sewage sludge can be.
Five Questions with WRFR volunteer and sponsor Paul Chartrand
By Ron Staschak 1) What did you do at the radio station? I joined Joe Steinberger on the very first show on WRFR at 7am on Feb 14, 2002. It was a morning talk & news show somewhat like the current Rockland Metro. I was a frequent guest on that show and have been on...
