The project: Solving the mystery.
The mystery: Ongoing bacterial pollution in Broad Cove clam flats, which has led to extended seasonal conditional closures.
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The project: Solving the mystery.
The mystery: Ongoing bacterial pollution in Broad Cove clam flats, which has led to extended seasonal conditional closures.
Westport Island will soon have a new face on the board of selectmen. First Selectmen George Richardson Jr. has decided not to seek re-election after serving on the board for over 26 years, and as chairman for over 22.
“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.”
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Raye Leonard
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of fixing broken things with gold, pottery in particular. Instead of bemoaning the chips and cracks, kintsugi accepts these imperfections and mends them with precious metal, highlighting those places where – perhaps – a thing fell apart.
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Nate Poole
On Feb. 28, Regional School Unit 12 students and staff returned to their schools with the option to not wear a mask.
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Nate Poole
LincolnHealth and the MaineHealth system experienced a significant reduction in COVID-19 cases in the past week, according to an email from LincolnHealth Spokesperson John Martins.
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There were no injuries in a dump truck rollover at the intersection of Sheepscot and Alna roads in Alna on the morning of March 2.
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Nate Poole
Two Waldoboro men, lobsterman Clinton Collamore and attorney Lynn Madison, are seeking to represent State House District 45.
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Maia Zewert
Owning a bed-and-breakfast was going to be a retirement plan for Stephanie and Jesse Cheney, but a serendipitous series of events moved the timeline up by quite a stretch.
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.
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.
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Maia Zewert
Debbie Thibault kicked off February in a big way. On the first of the month, she celebrated her birthday. The next day, she purchased the building Deb’s Bristol Diner has called home since December 2014.
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.
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Three vehicles were involved in a collision in the vicinity of Moose Crossing Garden Center on Route 1 in Waldoboro on the evening of Feb. 24.