5+ hour, 44+ min 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…...

3+ mon, 1+ day 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…...

6+ mon, 2+ 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…...

7+ mon, 1+ 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…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (674+ words) For the past few years, I've carried with me a quotation given to me by a friend. We were out walking and assessing a stretch of potential conservation land....

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (466+ words) April showers, right? We have certainly gotten plenty of precipitation this month, some of it rain and some even snow. While the ground has been soaking up some of that moisture, much of it also finds its way over ground…...