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The Presumpscot River is entangled with my idea of home | Nature Connects
11+ hour, 19+ min ago (20+ words) The days spent on its banks have shaped both my sense of play and my curiosity about the natural world....
Fish passage, flood control and a Maine town united | Nature Connects
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (152+ words) On the Narraguagus River in Cherryfield, a community-focused restoration effort serves as a model for reopening sea-run fish pathways....
Portland wastewater documentary is brilliantly done | Letter
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (183+ words) Maine's top source for news and information. You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles…...
Town of Brunswick spotlights watersheds in free workshop
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (166+ words) Join community members at Crooker Theater in Brunswick for a free community workshop focused on healthy lawncare practices, watershed protection, pollution prevention, and pesticide and fertilizer management on Tuesday, April 28, hosted by the Town of Brunswick. An optional Q&A…...
New sewer system in Windham nears completion
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (718+ words) Maine's top source for news and information. You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles…...
Rock Row developers pitch hotel, housing and more retail in Westbrook
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (731+ words) WESTBROOK " Rock Row's developers are moving ahead with plans to build a hotel, housing and additional commercial space in the third phase of a project that's now expected to cost more than $700 million. Waterstone Properties and its partners presented a…...
Accessible and engaging, "Strata" looks back, way back, at air, ice, mud and heat
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (263+ words) Poppick brings readers to sites including an epic iron mine in Minnesota, Wyoming's Bighorn Canyon, a Norwegian archipelago, Ireland's Dingle Peninsula, the Australian Outback and Coastal Newfoundland. At Colby College in Waterville, she visits the lab of a paleobotanist who…...
Leader of Gray's Resiliency Committee outlines watershed management plan
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (215+ words) GRAY " Sandy Carder, chair of Gray's Resiliency Committee, discussed the town's watershed management plan, developed in conjunction with several town- and county-level water protection associations. Carder also said that two of the lakes covered in the plan, Forest Lake and…...
Magnitude 2. 5 earthquake reported off Maine coast
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (293+ words) The earthquake just before 4 a. m. Tuesday was centered near Vinalhaven, an island in Penobscot Bay. A 2. 5 magnitude earthquake was reported off the coast of Maine early Tuesday morning. The earthquake was recorded shortly before 4 a. m. about 2. 5 miles southwest of Vinalhaven in Penobscot…...