Fifteen years into what has been hailed as one of the nation’s best e-waste recycling programs, many questions remain.
There are more devices in Mainers’ lives than ever. No one knows where they end up.
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My only regret is EVs weren’t available in Maine years earlier
Better torque, smoother ride, less maintenance and, of course, low emissions put a history of gas-powered vehicles in the rear-view mirror.
Keeping a culture alive, one drumbeat at a time
The Thunder Women of the Passamaquoddy tribe aren’t just honoring ancestors, they’re healing their community and themselves.
Headwinds at 20: As Downeaster nears a milestone birthday, questions arise about its future
Seems just about everyone loves a train, but can we make it work in Maine so it’s viable?
Staggering $1.5 billion lithium deposit discovered near Newry; excavating it poses a challenge
By Kate Cough NEWRY — The richest known hard rock lithium deposit in the world lies a few miles northeast of the ski slopes of Sunday River and not far from Step Falls, where swimmers can wade in shallow pools formed by hundreds of feet of cascading granite...
DEATHS OF DESPAIR – Barely Hanging On
“William! Kelly!” she hollered.
“I look for a sign from them,” McIver explained. “I’d do anything to bring them both back.”
McIver lost her grandson and daughter over a nine-week stretch. Her 14-year-old grandson William killed himself on Jan. 27. Her 40-year-old daughter Kelly – William’s mother – overdosed on April 3.
“I scream their names every morning when I walk,” McIver said. “I scream as loud as I can.”
Thomaston lobsterman Noah Ames gives away hundreds of pounds of lobsters to those in need every Christmas.
By Barbara Walsh, The Maine Monitor --- The gray-haired ladies smile and tell their stories. Some of them have lost their husbands and live alone. Many of them have little to spare and are grateful for the gift. “I can’t believe I’m going to have lobsters on...
Maine reduces jail population amid coronavirus concerns
AUGUSTA — Maine is reducing its jail population as the state aims to avoid potential exposure of staff and inmates to COVID-19, the illness widely known as coronavirus, inside its locked facilities.
Coping with Emerald Ash Borer, Maine’s Slow-Motion Natural Disaster. Could Cost Camden Maine $250,000!
Maine communities are unprepared for the economic and ecological costs of this deadly tree infestation.
BY MARINA SCHAUFFLER | JANUARY 30, 2020 | Pine Tree Watch
Maine communities stand to lose a lot with the arrival of emerald ash borer (EAB), an Asian parasite that attacks white, green and brown ash (Fraxinus spp.) — killing most trees within a few years. One Maine town that received state Project Canopy funding calculate EAB’s potential impact found that tree removal and treatment would total a quarter-million dollars, roughly a third of its annual budget.
The Prosecutor’s Power
Maine’s eight elected district attorneys wield tremendous power to decide how or whether to charge someone with a crime, whether to strike a plea deal and whether there’s enough evidence to win the case at trial.
That power became painfully clear to Alison McKellar of Camden over the last two years after the death of her 32-year-old sister in a boating accident on Damariscotta Lake. Kristen McKellar and a friend were swimming late in the evening on Aug. 2, 2018, when she was struck and killed by a boat operated by Jonathan Roberts, 46, of Waban, Mass.