“You’re going to want to use both hands,” said Caren Clark from the small room at the base of the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse tower, her breath visible in the stone structure despite spring sun outside. Her hands were gloved. The metal banisters spiraling up the staircase were glacial. They require repainting almost yearly. As many as 35,000 sets of hands per year, gripping on for balance.
No Humans Injured in Jefferson Barn Fire
A small barn fire on Rockland Road in Jefferson the afternoon on March 29 caused damage but no destruction, Jefferson Fire Chief Walter Morris said.
Updated Vibrio Certification Materials Available April 1
The Maine Department of Marine Resources announced that an updated online Vibrio certification quiz will be posted for marine harvesters and primary dealers in Vibrio Control Areas on April 1.
Abenaki Trading Company Prepares for Summer Season, Reflects on Pandemic
The parking lot out front of the Abenaki Trading Company on Route 1 in Edgecomb is empty save for owner and operator Jocelyn Howe’s car on a Friday in late March. An open flag waved under spring sun.
Collaborative River~Link Sets Example for Future Conservation Projects
To travel from the Dodge Point Preserve on River Road to the Zak Preserve in the middle of McKay Road in Edgecomb by car, it would take approximately eight minutes. On either side of the road, buildings interspersed by forest, roads leading down to oyster farms on the Damariscotta River.
Characters of the County: Ceramicist Alison Evans, Cast By the Coast
Razor clams, urchins. Sea clams and giant snails. Round dinnerware glazed in the tones and character of ocean-worn shells, seaweeds, deep water, rich algae. Barnacles, periwinkles. And oysters, of course.
24/7/365 at Edgecomb’s Bait Bucket
It was midnight. No, it was 2 a.m. Or maybe it was 5 a.m., pre-dawn. Or was it sunset? It was 11 a.m. and raining. But it doesn’t really matter. Edgecomb’s Bait Bucket is open 24/7—every day of the year.
Lincoln County Farmers Respond to PFAs Contamination
“It wasn’t something that was on our radar at all,” said Jessie Dowling, a cheesemaker with 15 years experience and owner of Fuzzy Udder Creamery in Whitefield.
Bremen Discusses Contract to Help Solve Broad Cove Contamination ‘Mystery’
The project: Solving the mystery.
The mystery: Ongoing bacterial pollution in Broad Cove clam flats, which has led to extended seasonal conditional closures.
Characters of the County: The Offerings of Fletcher Boote
“I get really inspired by the kindergarten paintings,” said artist, healer, and teacher Fletcher Boote from her at-home studio in Alna. “They’re so free. They’re so unencumbered by judgment.”
Characters of the County: Shannon Gilmore on the New and the Old
During quiet moments in her day in Wiscasset, Lincoln County Historical Association Executive Director Shannon Gilmore goes on walks. She walks past the cemetery up to the Old Jail on Federal Street, one of LCHA’s three museums.
Lincoln County Harvesters Tap into Start of Maine Maple Season
At the sugar house at Sweetwoods Farm in Newcastle, Justin Wood checked his equipment. After 10 months dormant, it needed some attention before the sap started running. Which happened early this year, according to Wood, before Valentine’s Day.
Studio Visit: Michelle Lee Provencal, Waldoboro
At low tide, when the sandbars were exposed and islands became temporary peninsulas, there was a mussel bed that stretched out in undulations of blues, purples, blacks, and browns. Iridescent in the low water. This is how Michelle Lee Provencal described the Biddeford beach of her childhood: Alive, wild, the shellfish abundant.
Lincoln County Urged to Prepare for Arrival of Emerald Ash Borers
The Emerald Ash Borer is an iridescent-bodied beetle no bigger than a penny. Its emerald tones are reminiscent of stately varieties of scarab beetles, with their backs that catch the light, shimmer.
