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2022
Posted inSports, Swimming, Varsity Maine
Varsity Maine Girls’ Team of the Year: Camden Hills swimming
The Windjammers dominated the Class A state meet without winning an individual event.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Seize the day! Eat your tomatoes every which way as they ripen
Sure, preserving them for later is good. But don’t neglect the pleasure of eating fresh local tomatoes every day while the season lasts.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Birding: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery – and survival
The songs of the Philadelphia vireo allow them to maintain territory in neighboring trees with the larger red-eyed vireo, whose songs sound almost identical.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener’s garden update: The worries, the glories, the berries
Columnist Tom Atwell tells us how his garden grows.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: I’ll miss you, Greg Kesich. But I’m not going anywhere.
From 1930s union music on long car rides to spotting my knack for opinionating, my gratitude to my former editor knows no bounds.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Joke’s on the humorist
In these harsh days of the pandemic and other calamities, it’s a tough job being an “intellectual who uses humor, or wit, in writing or public speaking,” J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘The Hotel Nantucket,’ ‘An Immense World’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Consider term limits without limits
If they’re to be placed on Supreme Court justices, term limits should be placed on members of Congress, too.